Meta has allegedly stopped engaged on its Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor, codenamed La Jolla. Growth on this began in November of final 12 months, and it was supposed to return out in some unspecified time in the future in 2027.
Now that is not occurring anymore. The rationale for the cancelation of the undertaking apparently has to do with the truth that the headset was utilizing MicroOLED shows which made it very costly, rather more than Meta’s preliminary purpose to maintain the fee beneath $1,000.
The $3,500 Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional hasn’t precisely been a convincing hit both, and if not even Apple could make a high-price machine a finest vendor, then that could be a sign that there simply is not sufficient of a marketplace for such high-end headsets to suit two competing ones.
Referring to the information concerning the La Jolla headset’s cancelation, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth mentioned: “We have many prototypes in development at all times. But we don’t bring all of them to production. We move forward with some, we pass on others. Decisions like this happen all the time, and stories based on chatter about one individual decision will never give the real picture”.
Whereas the high-end headset could have been canceled, Meta continues to be engaged on a extra inexpensive Quest, codenamed Ventura, which might be popping out earlier than the top of this 12 months. Meta can also be anticipated to showcase new AR glasses subsequent month, whereas the Quest 4 ought to arrive in 2026.
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