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 taking place anymore. The rationale for the cancelation of the mission apparently has to do with the truth that the headset was utilizing MicroOLED shows which made it very costly, way more than Meta’s preliminary aim to maintain the associated fee underneath $1,000.
The $3,500 Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional hasn’t precisely been a powerful hit both, and if not even Apple could make a high-price machine a finest vendor, then that may 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 in regards to the La Jolla headset’s cancelation, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth stated: “We have now many prototypes in improvement always. However we do not deliver all of them to manufacturing. We transfer ahead with some, we move on others. Selections like this occur on a regular basis, and tales primarily based on chatter about one particular person choice won’t ever give the true image”.
Whereas the high-end headset might have been canceled, Meta continues to be engaged on a extra inexpensive Quest, codenamed Ventura, which may very well be popping out earlier than the top of this 12 months. Meta can be anticipated to showcase new AR glasses subsequent month, whereas the Quest 4 ought to arrive in 2026.
