Reports have emerged that Meta has canceled its high-end Meta Quest Pro 2 headset scheduled for launch in 2027.

The Information’s Wayne Ma and Varnham O’Regan published the report, citing two Meta employees in the know. Ma has previously and severally published accurate reports on Meta’s Quest headset and smart glasses project.

Next Meta headset canceled
Next Meta headset canceled

The Information report states that Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth told company staff to stop working on the next-generation high-end headset during a product review meeting earlier in the week. The headset, codenamed La Jolla, was to feature high-resolution micro-OLED displays similar to those used in the Apple Vision Pro.  However, following the precedent in its previous line of headsets, Meta was keen to keep the headset’s price low, at less than $1,000. The company has now determined that this will not be realizable with a micro-OLED display by 2027.

According to a detailed leaked Meta hardware roadmap from last year, the La Jolla headset would have retained the rear battery design of the Quest Pro headset and would have featured Meta’s long-running R&D development project on Codec Avatars that aims to disrupt remote communications through truly photorealistic avatars that are powered in real-time by XR headsets equipped with face tracking sensors.

Meta will now leverage key technologies from the La Jolla project, including “display and eye-tracking features” and in yet-to-be-named “other future devices”, according to The Information report.

Following the report’s publication, Bosworth made a Threads post where he noted that the company has many prototypes which are under development at all times and that the decisions like that to cancel the La Jolla headset “happen all the time”.

Meta has been reluctant to sell another headset for over $1000, a fear that is most likely informed by the failure of its original Quest Pro headset whose price was slashed from $1500 to $1000, just four months after launch following low sales and mixed reviews from the XR community.

Previously, The Information had reported that Meta was planning two Quest 4 headset models for 2026, a budget model and a standard model codenamed Pismo Low and Pismo High.

There is increasing evidence that in the short term, Meta will launch the Quest 3S headset, a more affordable and accessible version of the Quest 3 headset that is launching before the end of the year with paired-down lenses, a thicker design, and a lower resolution. Consequently, the Meta Quest 3 headset will be the company’s highest-end offering for the foreseeable future. However, other companies might launch headsets with improved specs and more powerful features long before Meta launches its next-generation Quest 4 headset.

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