Images of what appears to beryllium the packaging for a “Meta Quest Pro” virtual world (VR) headset surfaced online, posted by Facebook idiosyncratic Ramiro Cardenas, who claims it was near successful a edifice country (Thanks, Peter! via Reddit). The instrumentality shown resembles the Project Cambria headset Meta has been publically teasing since precocious past twelvemonth and looks similar the 1 spotted in leaked setup videos.

The images surfaced precisely 1 period up of Meta’s Connect event connected October 11th, which lines up with the timeline CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed for erstwhile the institution volition uncover its adjacent VR headset. We expect to find retired each astir Project Cambria / the “Quest Pro” and its different plans for the metaverse, AR, and VR.

Cardenas primitively shared the images successful the comment conception of a post connected the Oculus Quest 2 Facebook radical and said aggregate devices were near behind. It’s a singular story, but 1 not without (convenient) precedent, including the iPhone 4 prototype near successful a barroom successful 2010 arsenic the astir celebrated occurrence, portion much recently, the still-unreleased Pixel 7 was sold connected eBay, and a Pixel Watch prototype was also, apparently, lost successful a restaurant.

The sticker connected the container indicates it could beryllium an “engineering sample.” Image: Ramiro Cardenas via Facebook

It’s hard to marque retired galore details from the pictures alone, but the packaging has the “Meta Quest Pro” statement stamped successful the top-left country and a graphic showing a achromatic VR headset and controllers. Cardenas besides provided a closeup of the statement stuck to the box, which says “Not for resale - engineering sample,” and told The Verge that the idiosyncratic who stayed successful the country has since claimed the headsets.

In July, Bloomberg reported developer Steve Moser recovered references to the “Oculus Pro” successful Meta’s code, truthful it’s imaginable that this is the sanction Meta has settled connected for the upcoming device. Meta didn’t instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for comment.