It’s always worth rummaging around the edge of the bed or in the drawers of a hotel room. Who knows what exciting things the previous guest may have forgotten? Like a top-secret Oculus VR headset, for example. This happened to the hotel employee Ramiro Cardenas who claims it discovered and revealed to the world that Project Cambria will most likely be called Meta Quest Pro. Then he made an unboxing video.
The headset was originally teased last October, nicknamed Project Cambria when Mark Zuckerberg said it would sell at the “higher end of the price spectrum.” At that time, we learned
Now, a full month ahead of the scheduled announcement date, the new device is out for all to see thanks to one particularly forgetful hotel guest. A very excited Ramiro Cardenas, who posted the video as Zectariuz Gamingpulls the new headset and handheld controllers out of their box while whispering with delight.
This The redesigned Meta Quest Pro headset looks like something a mad inventor would wear in a 1980s Disney live-action film about a man accidentally inventing time travel. The controllers seem to be doing it now have ditched the Meta Quest 2’s hollow tire design and opted for a much simpler, neater form factor.
While identifying details are covered up, the images accompanying the video include one revealing the caption “NOT FOR RESALE – TECHNICAL SAMPLE”. It’s in pretty fancy packaging considering! However, it does suggest that the product could be close to release.
The edge reports that Cardenas told them he could reunite the headset with the person who’d been staying in the hotel room, but not before he — you know — uploaded photos and a video of the device to Facebook to blast Meta’s plan to use it during the Connect Meta to unveil in October.
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It’s quite a coincidence that Cardenas and his Zectariuz Gaming page had already shown great interest in the various forms of the Oculus. We reached out to him to ask how this fortuitous event came about.
We also reached out to Meta, of course, to ask if they’re moving forward with the Pro’s announcement now, and if they’ll mount the Engineer’s head on a spike outside of their HQ. (Maybe we didn’t put it that way exactly.)