In another of his increasingly frequent AMAs on Instagram, Facebook’s vice president of Augmented Reality, Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, suggested the potential for a new Quest Pro model and discussed other future features.
A user asked Bosworth a question that said “Why can’t Oculus make a $ 600 headset and put the best specs like Quest Pro 3 etc. plz. ” Bosworth then said “Quest Pro, huh … interesting …” and winked at the camera.
Although Quest Pro is an interesting prospect and clearly a provocative response, it should not be seen as a confirmation of the idea. However, Facebook claims that Quest 2 is moving towards general acceptance, while aggressively targeting a low price for a game product that people want. It is certainly possible, now that the market is proven, Facebook could consider the possibility of differentiating the line with a model of higher specifications.
Bosworth also answered a question by asking if there were “any plans to implement eye tracking in the Oculus Quest”. He said that eye tracking is a “super interesting” area that Facebook has been researching for a long time and that “it is something that we will fit into some future headset”. He then pointed out one of the main benefits of eye tracking technology is that you can “dramatically improve performance, just by rendering things that are in the field of view of the fovea”.
“I’m certainly happy that they are making one,” said Bosworth of Sony’s confirmation of a next generation headset. “PSVR was a tremendous success and it was a great place for our developers to make money and I hope PSVR 2 is, too.”
Bosworth also addressed application sharing, a new feature of Quest and why it is not currently available to Beat Saber. “A very complicated thing, when it comes to Beat Saber and other music-oriented software, is licensing and how this licensing model works. So we’re still looking into this and will let you know more when we have it. “
Regarding VR streaming from the Virtual Desktop PC returning to the official Oculus Store earlier this week, Bosworth said that after being “super conservative” about the quality control of store content when Quest launched, they are now ” putting more and more control in the hands of consumers. ”He also noted that” so many people “were sideloading the alternative version of Virtual Desktop through SideQuest that bringing it back to the official store was now” a kind of no-brainer. “.
You can participate in future AMAs on Bosworth’s Instagram account, @boztank.