Finally, the Meta Quest 3 promises a VR headset with some oomph

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Let’s be clear: VR headsets are still in their infancy. Ok, they’ve technically been around for over 50 years, with computer scientist Ivan Sutherland creating the oddly named The Sword of Damocles in 1968. Though ground-breaking, I don’t think anyone was playing Half-Life: Alyx on that primitive bit of tech. VR as we know it pretty much starts with the release of the Oculus Rift just over a decade ago, and leads now to the Meta Quest 3.

The Oculus Rift, and Facebook’s acquisition of the Oculus VR company for $2 billion, kickstarted (no pun intended) the VR explosion, and crucially, the availability of headsets for average consumers. Now, every man and his dog wants a slice of the ever-growing VR pie, with tech giants like HTC, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, and Samsung all entering the space.

With such massive investment into VR, innovations should be coming thick and fast. And since the tech is all pretty new, unlike consoles and GPUs, the gap between one generation and the next is massive. Just look at the Meta Quest 2 vs the Oculus Quest: despite arriving within a year of each other, the Meta Quest 2 boasts a much higher resolution, higher refresh rate, nearly triple the battery power, and 2GB more RAM.

Three years later, we’re getting a much-needed upgrade, according to an Instagram post by everyone’s CEO-bot, Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta Quest 3 arrives this fall, with a slew of alleged improvements over its predecessor, including more graphics power, a 40% slimmer optic profile (whatever that means), and better resolutions. It’s about time, too, as the Meta Quest 2, despite being named our best VR headset, already feels ancient.

Zuckerberg said extra details are arriving at Meta Connect 2023 on September 27.