Meta Platforms has begun elevating costs $100 on its Meta Quest 2 headsets, media reported on Tuesday, citing an announcement from the Oculus weblog.
In keeping with the Menlo Park-based tech big, the worth enhance would enable it to “make investments for the long run and hold driving the VR trade ahead” with its video games, analysis, and {hardware} improvements.
It wrote within the publish,
“Beginning in August, Meta Quest 2 will price $399.99 USD and $499.99 USD for the 128GB and 256GB variations respectively. And for a restricted time, each new headset buy will embody a suggestion to obtain the favored VR rhythm sport Beat Saber at no further price. Alongside these modifications, we’ll additionally enhance the costs for Meta Quest 2 equipment and refurbished models”
The weblog publish added clients buying Meta Quest 2 headsets from 1 August to 31 December would obtain Beat Saber free of charge 14 days after activating their new gadgets earlier than 31 January subsequent 12 months.
The information comes as Meta faces vital income losses within the first quarter (Q1) this 12 months, with media reviews noting Meta misplaced roughly $3 billion in Q1 on account of large funding from its Actuality Labs division, nosediving inventory costs throughout 2022.
The corporate can even report second quarter (Q2) earnings on Wednesday.
The metaverse agency has thought of shopping for VR eye-tracking startup AdHawk Microsystems to spice up in-house merchandise equivalent to its upcoming Undertaking Cambria, Bloomberg reported this week, regardless of rolling again funding in its Actuality Labs merchandise equivalent to its Undertaking Nazare sensible glasses.
Meta additionally put in WhatsApp assist for its Ray-Ban Tales sensible glasses, which can present hands-free calling, messaging, and voice controls for customers, the agency introduced final week.