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On a balmy, sunny day last week, I made my first visit to the Meta campus in Burlingame, CA, to experience the company’s latest big change in its efforts to build a metaverse. The centerpiece of the day, as well as this morning’s keynote speech at the Connect conferenceis the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 standalone mixed reality headsetwhich will ship on October 25 and which the company hopes will drive a new wave of adoption by professionals and businesses.

Yesterday I wrote here about what Meta had to prove at Connect: that the metaverse is not only happening, but is happening nowand that Meta is better positioned than anyone else to take advantage of the next platform change…