The Best VR Headset

Meta has marketed the Quest Pro as a solution for the workplace. You can edit documents in Adobe Acrobat or meet with coworkers, draw on a whiteboard, and type on your computer in Meta Horizon Workrooms. But the fact is you can do all of these things in a Quest 2 headset for a third of the price; given the way people use VR headsets today, tracking expressions and a sharper screen for reading documents just doesn’t justify the higher price tag. We’re also curious about who exactly is spending all day working in VR. We found it frustrating to even log into Adobe Acrobat—we had to check our email for a code, but the Quest Pro’s cameras for augmented reality—which now display color instead of the Quest 2’s black and white—are so bad we couldn’t read our phone’s screen from inside the headset (AR games felt like a gimmicky bust, too). It was difficult to orient a pen correctly to write on a whiteboard, and it was easier to pull off the headset to chat in Slack than navigate back to the app inside the headset (I also was late to a Zoom meeting in the real world when I became too immersed in VR). The Quest Pro’s hand tracking isn’t good enough to make us put down the controllers, either; we’re still waiting on a headset maker to make it feel truly intuitive.