An image posted by Facebook user Ramiro Cardenas of what appears to be the packaging for the “Meta Quest Pro” virtual reality (VR) headset has surfaced online, which he claims was left in a hotel room. The device on display appears to resemble the Project Cambria headset that Meta has been publicly teasing since late last year.
The images, in turn, emerged a month before Meta’s Connect event on Oct. 11, which is in line with the timeline that the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the company would reveal its next VR headset.
Cardenas reportedly originally shared the images in the comments section of a post on the Oculus Quest 2 Facebook group and said they were forgotten. It’s a remarkable story, but not without precedent, with events like the iPhone 4 prototype left in a bar in 2010 being the most notorious of this type of incident, as well as the still-unreleased Pixel 7 recently being sold on eBay and the Pixel Watch prototype being lost in a restaurant.
It’s hard to see a lot of detail in the picture alone, but the top left corner of the package bears the label “Meta Quest Pro” and a graphic showing the black VR headset and controller. In addition, Cardenas also provided a close-up of the label attached to the box, which reads “not for resale – engineering samples. In addition, he told The Verge that the person who left the headsets behind later claimed the devices.
In July, Bloomberg reported that developer Steve Moser found a reference to “Oculus Pro” in Meta’s code, so it’s possible this is the name Meta has decided on for the upcoming device.
