Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, our impressions, and the state of VR games

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of low-latency head tracking: 02:35 - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg chats with deputy editor Alex Heath about Meta's new headset, the Quest Pro. 22:00 - Alex Heath and senior reporter Adi Robertson chat with David Pierce about their first impressions using the Quest Pro. 47:45 - Group Publisher for The Verge Chris Grant chats with David about what's happening in VR for video games. You can listen to the rest of the chat with Mark Zuckerberg on Decoder with Nilay Patel, watch it on The Verge's YouTube channel for the video version, or read it on our site. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of low latency head tracking.
0:06.4	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently sitting in my car, fudzing with its settings.
0:11.4	Because apparently that's the thing you have to do now.
0:14.0	I've never owned a new car before and then we bought a cool new Hyundai Tucson hybrid,
0:18.7	which I like a lot.
0:20.2	But it makes all these dumb noises and it beeps at me every time I forget to use the
0:24.5	turn signal or just open the door and it's all just a lot.
0:29.0	So I'm doing what any good tech geek does.
0:31.4	I'm ignoring the manual entirely and I'm just sitting here hitting all the buttons and
0:34.7	seeing what happens.
0:35.7	Wish me luck.
0:36.7	We have a great show today all on a single subject.
0:40.1	Well, a few subjects.
0:41.3	Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, whatever you want to call it, the future
0:46.3	of reality.
0:47.5	The reason we're publishing this episode a day early is because today is Meta Connect and
0:51.8	Meta is releasing both a new Quest Pro headset and a lot of information about its plan for
0:56.9	the future of all this technology.
0:58.9	We're going to dig into the games, the headsets and everything else it'll take to make VR
1:03.7	and AR and mixed reality work.
1:05.9	If in fact, it's ever going to.
1:08.3	All that's coming in just a sec, but first I have to apparently go put electrical tape
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