Meta Quest 3 Unveiled Days Before the Apple AR Headset; Out This Fall for $499
The long rumored Meta Quest 3 virtual and mixed reality headset was announced today by Mark Zuckerberg, just four days ahead of the awaited unveiling of Apple's AR headset.
The Meta Quest 3 ships this Fall at $499 with 128GB of storage, with a pricier option featuring more storage to be detailed on September 27th during the next Meta Connect event.
Meta is calling this the most powerful headset they've ever created. It'll be powered by a next-generation Snapdragon chipset created in partnership with Qualcomm that is said to deliver over twice the performance of the GPU available in the Quest 2.
Additionally, the Meta Quest 3 has been redesigned to be more comfortable and much thinner, thanks to a 40% reduced optic profile (without the foam facial interface).
The Touch Plus controllers have received ergonomic improvements, too. The outer tracking rings have been removed thanks to the new headset's more advanced tracking technology, improving the feeling of the controllers as extensions of your hands in the virtual space.
The TruTouch Haptics tech originally debuted in the Touch Pro controllers is also available in the Meta Quest 3's Touch Plus controllers. Triggers and thumb haptics feedback provide an increased sensation of interactivity with the virtual worlds. Thanks to Direct Touch technology, hand tracking is also natively supported, allowing users to explore even without controllers.
Moreover, the Meta Quest 3 is poised to offer a much improved mixed reality experience thanks to dual 4MP RGB color cameras, a depth sensor for a more accurate representation of the mixed reality play space, and 10x more pixels in Passthrough compared to the Quest 2.
The Meta Quest 3 is backward compatible with the entire Quest 2 library of
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