An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it is a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest
Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to produce a restricted edition Meta Quest VR headset that is “inspired by Xbox.” While equally Microsoft and Meta are not sharing whole facts on this VR headset, it seems like it’s simply just likely to be a skinned Meta Quest 3 (or upcoming unannounced edition) that arrives bundled with an Xbox controller.
“We’re functioning collectively once more [with Microsoft] to generate a confined-edition Meta Quest, encouraged by Xbox,” claims Meta in an announcement today. It is component of Meta opening up its operating system that powers its Quest VR headsets to third-celebration components makers. Asus and Lenovo are generating dedicated headsets that run the Meta Horizon OS, but the partnership with Microsoft appears like it is basically a restricted-version headset — a great deal like how Microsoft creates minimal-edition Xbox consoles.
In an Instagram article, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests the version of the headset that is being teased now “comes out of the box with Xbox controllers and Video game Move, so you can quickly just begin actively playing on a huge screen anyplace you go.”
Microsoft has a mixed history with VR headsets on the Xbox facet, which has led to the corporation partnering with Meta far more intently just lately. A doc leak in 2012 detailing Xbox One designs showed that Microsoft experienced regarded as Kinect Glasses, codenamed Undertaking Fortaleza. Those people under no circumstances came to daily life with the start of the Xbox A person console, but Microsoft then created a much more effective Xbox One particular X model that was supposed to be VR-capable.
“We’ve architected it these that some thing will be ready to plug proper in and function,” explained Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in 2016 about VR support for Undertaking Scorpio, the codename for Xbox One particular X. The Xbox One X under no circumstances had VR headset aid inspite of the enterprise transport its Xbox One controllers with the Oculus Rift.
