The Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthrough
The Quest 2, meanwhile, will once again cost $300 for the base 128GB version starting on June 4th. The 256GB model will cost $350. Metalast year, blaming increased manufacturing costs. In March, it cut the price of the 256GB Quest 2 by $70 to $429 to help"more people get into VR," Zuckerberg said at the time.
In addition, an upcoming software update will boost the performance of the Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Meta says the CPU of each headset will get a performance increase of up to 26 percent, with a GPU boost of up to 19 percent on Quest 2 and 11 percent on Quest Pro. Dynamic Resolution Scaling will be enabled on both headsets as well. According to Meta, this will help them"take advantage of increased pixel density without dropping frames." The Quest 3 will be fully compatible with every Quest 2 app and experience. The company will reveal more details at its Connect conference, which will take place on September 27th, hands-on time with a Quest 3 prototype . Gurman wrote that the headset “feels far lighter and thinner” than the previous model and that it had a sturdier head strap. Unlike the Quest Pro, though, the Quest 3 may not have face or eye-tracking features. In another year, Zuckerberg might have waited until Connect to reveal the Quest 3. However, Meta may be trying to steal some of Apple's thunder. The latter is to reveal a premium mixed-reality headset at WWDC next week. As such, Meta may soon be facing another major competitor in the mixed reality space.
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