Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Meta Quest 3: Will This Be The Best $500 VR Headset?”.
Meta’S got a brand new VR headset just days before Apple announces, theirs, the metaquest 3.. Here’S what we know Mark Zuckerberg, teased the metaquest 3 in the middle of a special Instagram post right in the middle of the day, that we already had a bunch of VR games that were launching for the quest the quest 3 was already known about. This was announced last year and it’s an update to The Quest 2, which is a VR headset that launched a couple of years ago and has been the best VR headset around, although that VR headset is starting to feel a little bit old, you definitely want to Wait for the quest 3, based on what we’ve heard. The quest 3 now has a price, it’s 500, which is more expensive than the Quest 2, which was 400 or used to be 400, because the Quest 2 is now getting a price drop. That’S going to be going back down to 300, which was the original price of a Quest 2 when it launched, but the quest 3 has a number of new features that look like they’re going to be worth it.
First of all, it’s going to be smaller. It’S meant to be significantly lighter and more compact in the front than the quest 2.. That should make it easier to wear air for longer periods of time. There are also brand new controllers now, if you’ve ever seen the quest Pro headset that came out last year, which had more compact controllers. These have that similar type of look without that big plastic ring, and so they should be easier to pack away when you’re traveling and they also are promising better haptics, which is the vibrational feedback. This also has a brand new processor.
Qualcomm has a new update to its xr2 check, that’s supposed to provide faster performance, better graphics. That is something I’m really curious about trying, also because of the fact that this is aiming towards a future where we’re all going to be wearing AR headsets. Maybe that allow us to look at the world and overlay things. This has mixed reality capabilities now. That means better color cameras that are on this headset plus a depth sensor, and so it means that this should be able to take VR and overlay it with video pass-through of what you see in the real world. This type of mixed reality has already been out there.
The Quest 2 does some of it already and the quest Pro does it better? Also, there’s the Vive XR Elite that came out earlier this year and Apple’s headset is supposed to be doing a whole lot of this, but it could position the quest 3 as a really interesting low-cost mixed reality. Headset one thing that it’s lacking from the quest Pro is eye tracking. Now the PlayStation VR2 does have eye tracking. It’S used mainly for improving Graphics, to allow the PlayStation 5 to push more stuff into your eyes.
To make it look cooler. Apple’S headset is supposed to have eye tracking as well, leaving out eye tracking on a 500 headset. That’S probably expected The Meta Quest 3 is also going to run all the games and apps that are on the quest too. That’S similar to the way the Quest 2 worked with the quest, but it does open the door potentially for a number of exclusives down the road.
The Quest 2 started to run games that were more optimized for it and the quests started to slowly disappear. It does feel like that’s going to be the Destiny for what the Quest 2 is going to have at some point. Although the Quest 2 could be set up as a really nice affordable alternative for the next year or so, the quest 3 is not supposed to launch until the fall Mark. Zuckerberg indicated that it’s going to be announced at meta’s connect conference for developers September 27th.
So I suggests a similar launch time to other Quest headsets in the past and it could line up with when Apple’s headset comes out, which we still don’t really know all that much about at the time that I recorded this. But there are a number of VR headsets on the market at the moment, including the PlayStation VR2, which we love, although it does require a PlayStation 5 to use it. The one advantage to the quest 3. Is it’s going to be completely self-contained and at that price? At 500 it could actually compete as a gaming console, which is where meta has had Success. With The Quest already now, there have been a lot of experiments into fitness and work and to other applications for meta, but it looks like meta is leaning even more on gaming now, especially up against apple and its more ambitious headset. So the metaquest 3 could be one of the Best Buys in VR this year.
But of course, the year is only about halfway through we’ll know more when we get a chance to see it more and maybe finally demo it. If you have any more questions, please leave them down below and make sure to like And subscribe thanks a lot. .