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A Korean news report suggests Meta is partnering with LG to release a successor to its high-end Quest Pro virtual reality headset in 2025. As spotted by UploadVR<\/em><\/a>, Maeil Business Newspaper<\/em> writes<\/a> that Meta has struck a deal for a joint venture with LG. The resulting headset is rumored to be priced at around $2,000 and use LG displays, as well as other parts from LG subsidiaries like LG Innotek. Maeil Business Newspaper <\/em>furthermore claims Meta will release a low-end Quest headset in 2024 that could cost under $200.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Meta didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Verge<\/em>, and some of the details of the report seem unintuitive. $200 would be a major price drop for the consumer Quest; the Quest 2 sells for $299<\/a> after Meta briefly attempted to raise <\/em>the price, and the upcoming Quest 3 was announced at $499<\/a>. The report also says the new high-end headset will be called the \u201cMeta Quest 4 Pro,\u201d which would break Meta\u2019s current convention of keeping the Quest and Quest Pro lineup numbering separate. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Overall, however, the report tracks roughly with Meta\u2019s past behavior in the VR space. Although $200 would be very <\/em>cheap, The Verge<\/em> has previously reported<\/a> that a cheap headset codenamed Ventura is indeed planned for 2024, with a Quest Pro successor likely after that. And as UploadVR<\/em> notes, Meta (formerly Facebook) has released several headsets as joint-branded products. The Oculus Rift S<\/a> bore Lenovo branding, the low-end Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi<\/a>, and Samsung made the mobile Gear VR.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That said, it\u2019s worth pointing out that none of these were considered the most exciting Meta\/Facebook headsets at the time of their release, which is contrary to how Meta has positioned the Quest Pro. The Rift S was Meta\u2019s final wired-only headset before it focused entirely on the all-in-one Quest lineup, the Go was a low-end Rift and Quest alternative<\/a>, and the Gear VR was a super-cheap alternative to the then-cutting-edge Rift. (A counter-example may be Meta\u2019s high-profile partnership with Ray-Ban on smart glasses<\/a>, but Meta also described that as an early foray into augmented reality.) Meta has portrayed the Pro as a testing ground for innovative VR tech that will come more slowly to its cheaper mass-market products. An LG joint venture could maintain that role, but only if it looks a little different from some of those past partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n