Meta told suppliers earlier this year to stop ordering due to poor reviews and weak sales, according to The Information's Wayne Ma, citing "two people with direct knowledge of the project."
Meta said it would sell the Quest Pro alongside the Quest 3, and just four months ago, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said: "I think the Quest Pro is going to be around for a long time. That's actually what we designed it for; we want it to be around for a long time."
In our review of the Quest Pro, we criticized its disappointing resolution, grainy see-through graphics, low-powered processor, lack of automatic mixed reality indoor perception, and the fact that the Meta's cartoonish avatars don't do enough to take advantage of the excellent face-tracking sensor.
In early March of this year, just four months after the Quest Pro launched, Meta dropped the price of the Quest Pro from $1,500 to $1,000.
When Meta launched the Quest Pro, the company said it was "working on" automatic plane detection and tongue tracking, but neither feature has been released yet. The VR Air Bridge wireless PC VR accessory also currently does not support Quest Pro.
Aside from its limitations, what could affect Quest Pro sales are leaks about the Quest 3, revealing that before the Quest Pro launches, the Quest 3 could launch just a year later with twice the performance of the Quest Pro at a lower price.
While the color perspective is arguably the main selling point of the Quest Pro to some extent, Mark Zuckerberg recently called the Quest 3's perspective better and more advanced than the Quest Pro's, and Mark Gurman and Lex Friedman backed that up.
Wayne Ma's reporting also mentions that Meta "paused" development of the planned Quest Pro 2. The Verge also saw this in a leaked Meta roadmap back in March of this year. The roadmap reveals that Meta plans to launch the more ambitious Quest Pro 2 in the "distant future" after 2024, a device that will feature Codec Avatars, the company's long-studied project to enable realistic spatial remote sensing.