Meta wants you to buy the Quest 3 rather than the Quest Pro VR headset, which is now longer available to buy from its maker's store.

Even as Meta abandoned its high-end VR/XR headset, Apple’s Vision Pro got some good news at CES this week. Two months after it announced plans to discontinue its high-end Quest Pro VR/XR headset, Meta has stopped selling its remaining inventory of the device,

A recent software update is disabling Quest 2, 3, and 3S models. Meta is offering free replacements to some users.

Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's premium mixed reality (MR) offerings have struggled to gain traction, with Apple's headset selling only 500,000 units in 2024. High pricing at US$3,499 and a limited app ecosystem are key barriers.

Meta is working to fix a faulty software update that bricked many Quest headsets. It has also offered to fix out-of-warranty headsets that were left unresponsive.

The latest Meta Quest headset update has bricked several devices so far, but Meta says it is aware of the problem and is working on a fix.

Owners of Meta Quest VR headsets that haven't worked since a recent update rolled out can get help or a replacement headset from Meta.

GeForce NOW on the Vision Pro, Quest, and Pico devices includes “all the bells and whistles of NVIDIA technologies, including ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS,” the company confirmed. GeForce NOW members on the Performance and Ultimate subscriptions can “tap into RTX and DLSS technologies in supported games” for even better visuals.

Meta has stopped selling the Quest Pro, UploadVR spotted. The news comes just over two months since the company discontinued the high-end VR headset. Meta wrote then that it would keep selling the headset until year’s end or until it ran out of stock,

Meta officially stops selling the Meta Quest Pro virtual reality headset, urging interested buyers to look at its Meta Quest 3 line instead.