Meta Quest Pro

The Quest Pro is the latest VR headset from the social media and VR giant Meta. It’s the company’s most ambitious entry in its effort to construct a digital alternative to our reality called the “metaverse” where we can all… attend virtual meetings or something. Mark Zuckerberg swears it’s going to be a thing.

Zuckerberg’s dreams aside, the Meta Quest Pro is a pretty cool device. It’s the most advance AR/VR headset on the market—with an advanced $1,500 price tag to match. It’s also got an unbelievably complex privacy policies, spread across 14 different pages and 37,700 words. It’s got cameras on the outside and the inside, pointed right at your face. During setup, you can consent to having your eyeballs tracked for targeted ads. Happy holidays!

Cameras: Yes

Microphones: Yes

Location tracking: Yes

What data it collects: Name, email address, phone number, biometric data, contacts, purchase information, browsing history, location data, video and audio recordings

Can you delete the data: Mozilla says it’s not clear whether you can delete the data in all locations.

How the company uses the data: Advertising, working with third parties, processing voice, face, and transcript information

Mozilla says:

“This expensive gadget also delivers a whole lot of cameras sitting on your head — looking at your face, monitoring your eye movements, facial expressions, body movements, and at the world around you. The Quest Pro reportedly comes with 16 cameras total — 5 looking at your face, 5 looking out from your face, and 3 each on the two controllers. It sure sounds pretty creepy.”

Mozilla’s review:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/meta-quest-pro/