According to a report from The Information citing two Meta employees, Meta has canceled its plans for a premium mixed-reality headset. It seems the company told Reality Lab employees to halt work on the product this week after executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reviewed the project.
It’s uncertain whether the device was destined to be a sequel to the Meta Quest Pro or a completely new product, but it’s clear that developing a competitor for the Apple Vision Pro was the purpose of the project.
Some sources report that Meta wanted to keep the cost of its headset below $1,000, but it proved impossible given the current price of the micro-OLED displays it wanted to use — that’s the same tech inside the Vision Pro. The two employees also say the project began in November 2023, just a few months after the Vision Pro was announced.
Considering Quest Pro is now discontinued and Vision Pro sales don’t seem to be doing very well, it’s possible Meta simply decided the market doesn’t want another expensive headset right now. The company is only abandoning this particular mixed-reality project, however, and plans for the Quest 4 are reportedly still on track for a 2026 release.
It’s a shame that we can’t all have ultra-high-definition headsets right now, but display tech always comes down in price over time, so perhaps in a few years, micro-OLEDs will be the norm for VR. As for the spatial computing and productivity side of things, it’s clear that headsets need to get significantly lighter and more comfortable before people can truly consider wearing them for hours a day while they work.
Meta might have canceled plans for a commercial product for now, but hopefully, its teams will keep working on the research needed to make these developments happen.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.