Meta Quest 3 hands-on review — A big bet on mixed reality
We’re just a day away from the launch of the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset, upon which many metaverse dreams depend. Here’s our hands-on review.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in particular is betting that this $500 VR headset will attract VR and gaming enthusiasts with its mixed reality technology, which lets you see the outside world through cameras while you’re playing inside the world of the VR headset.
And Meta hopes to head off a similar technology being used in the Apple Vision Pro, a $3,500 headset that is arriving early next year. Sadly, I haven’t yet tried the Vision Pro and so I can’t make a direct comparison between these two products. But I’ll bet the Vision Pro beats Meta on graphics quality while Meta slaughters Apple when it comes price and availability of applications.
We’ll figure that out later. Meanwhile, I’ve sampled some of what this generation of VR has to offer, and the following is my report based on some limited time with the headset.
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In the meantime, it is a distinct advantage that Meta will have more than 500 applications compatible with the Quest lineup available on the Meta Quest 3, either on the first day or by the end of the year.
More than 100 games are coming to the platform, and I think it’s smart of them to focus on entertainment, rather than the admittedly uninspiring work applications for consumers. Over half of the 100 games are brand new titles, and upgrades and MR features are coming to another 50 titles currently on the Meta Quest Store.
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