It will reportedly be slimmer than Quest 2 and offer MR and VR experiences.
The Meta Quest 3, the successor of the company’s popularQuest 2 VR headset, is long overdue.
Meta Quest 3 Release Date: When Is It?
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Meta is expected to launch the Quest 3 in mid-to-late 2023.
But we still don’t have a specific Quest 3 launch date.
Price: How Much Will the New Meta Quest Cost?
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The official Quest 3 price will remain a mystery till the launch event.
The company hopes the new features introduced in the upcoming headset will justify the pricing.
Zuckerberg confirmed thatMeta Realitysupport for its “next generation consumer headset” during the Q4 2022 earnings call.
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Meta Reality is the company’s implementation of mixed reality.
But it’s limited to black and white and has a low resolution.
Quest 2 also doesn’t support Meta Reality.
And the depth camera with the depth projector will also enable better hand-tracking.
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The Verge also mentioned the slimness of the Quest 3 in its reporting on the internal Meta roadmap.
The Quest 3 is also said to use fasterLPDDR5RAM instead of the LPDDR4X present on the Quest 2.
Finally, Lynch speculates that we could see a 12GB RAM version of Quest 3 with 512GB storage.
But the base model will stick with 6 or 8GB of RAM.
This has led to some spring cleaning in Meta’s Reality Labs.
In addition, another headset codenamed “Hermosa” has also been canned.
But Quest lineup’s future isn’t all that bleak.
Metareportedly plans to shipa more “accessible” VR headset codenamed “Ventura” in 2024.
From the sound of it, the Ventura could be cheaper than the Quest 3.
But the company is also working on the other end of the spectrum.
If you haven’t tried VR yet, its affordable price makes the barrier to entry very low.
