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Although Meta Connect 2024 lacked a marquee high-end product for the holiday season, it still included a new budget VR headset and a tease of the “magic glasses” Meta’s XR gurus have been talking about for the better part of a decade. In addition, the company keeps plowing forward with new AI tools for its Ray-Ban glasses and social platforms. Here’s everything the company announced at Meta Connect 2024.— are headsets with passthrough video capabilities.
The headset includes Fresnel lenses, which are familiar to Quest 2 owners, instead of the higher-end pancake ones in Quest 3. It has a 1,832 x 1,920 resolution , a drop from the 2,064 x 2,208 in the Quest 3. Meta says the budget model’s field of view is also slightly lower. Those ordering the headset will get a special Bat-bonus. Quest 3S orders between now and April 2025 will receive a free copy ofTo celebrate the arrival of the Meta Quest 3S, Meta is kicking two older models to the curb. The Quest 2 and Quest ProThe company now views the Quest 3S, with its much better mixed reality capabilities, as the new budget model, so the, which never gained much traction with consumers, has inferior cameras and passthrough video than the two Quest 3-tier models.
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