{"id":1070796,"date":"2022-11-01T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1070796"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:15:18","slug":"the-morning-after-trying-out-the-meta-quest-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1070796","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After: Trying out the Meta Quest Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has spent the GDP of a small country trying to make the metaverse a thing, and now we get to see the latest device designed to take us there. The Meta Quest Pro is a $1,500 flagship VR headset that should offer the best experience Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s money can buy. And our Sam Rutherford has spent plenty of time with one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/meta-quest-pro-review-a-next-gen-headset-for-the-vr-faithful-specs-price-130045313.html\">and is full of praise for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rutherford lauded the comfort, the design, the power and pretty much everything else about it, at least on a hardware level. The sting, of course, is that fancy hardware doesn\u2019t mean much if there isn\u2019t compelling software to back it up. And while there are some cool new apps able to take advantage of the Pro\u2019s more muscular performance, it\u2019s still a pretty thin selection.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who would love to spend more time in VR but can\u2019t find a headset that offers the right combination of eye (and neck) comfort, I\u2019m excited to try the Pro. 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Not to mention its overall efficacy, which third-party experts say is far lower than the forces themselves like to boast about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/uk-police-fail-to-use-facial-recognition-ethically-and-legally-researchers-say-082039619.html\"><strong>Continue Reading. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/instagram-outage-unable-to-access-account-145200289.html\">Bizarre Instagram outage left some thinking they were banned<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Users also saw drops in follower counts and disrupted feeds.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/instagram-outage-unable-to-access-account-145200289.html\"><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"In this photo illustration Instagram logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen with Instagram logo in the background in Athens, Greece on October 31, 2022. Instagram accounts are being closed. Users will neither be able to send messages nor will they be able to post. (Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\" data-uuid=\"06279905-6082-33b5-acc9-be936dc0c7a8\" \/><figcaption \/>\n<div class=\"photo-credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/instagram-outage-unable-to-access-account-145200289.html\">Instagram bug<\/a> caused users to receive notices their accounts were suspended without cause. The issue also saw individual follower counts fall, as well as disruptions to the platform\u2019s main image feed. Around eight hours later, Instagram said it had fixed the bug but declined to elaborate on what caused it. 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Chegg has already responded to the complaint, saying it takes its obligations seriously and will fully comply with the FTC\u2019s order when it\u2019s issued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ftc-chegg-order-student-data-exposed-162414289.html\"><strong>Continue Reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Engadget &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-morning-after-trying-out-the-meta-quest-pro-111518757.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Morning After: Trying out the Meta Quest Pro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has spent the GDP of a small country trying to make the metaverse a thing, and now we get to see the latest device designed to take us there. The Meta Quest Pro is a $1,500 flagship VR headset &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1070796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1070796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}