Meta Quest 3 VR headset
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased his firm’s newest digital actuality headset, the Quest 3, on Thursday.
The new headset will begin at $499, Zuckerberg mentioned in a video on Instagram. The put up famous that it will be the primary introduced headset with “high-res color mixed reality.” The Quest 3 is 40% thinner than its predecessor, the Quest 2.
It seems to have a minimum of three cameras on the entrance which will enhance a few of the pass-through experiences, the place a person can see the actual world round them whereas sporting the headset and interacting with apps. The video famous that it had improved “natural” depth notion for the wearer, and touted graphics enhancements for gaming.
“High-fidelity color Passthrough, innovative machine learning, and spatial understanding let you interact with virtual content and the physical world simultaneously, creating limitless possibilities to explore,” Meta mentioned in a launch.
The Quest 3 will ship with a next-generation Qualcomm chipset, the put up mentioned. Meta mentioned it should present extra particulars on Sept. 27 throughout its Connect convention.
Meta’s Quest 2 headset was launched within the fall of 2020 at a beginning worth of $299.
Apple is predicted to debut its competing VR headset subsequent week as a part of the corporate’s June WWDC occasion. The iPhone-maker’s shopper headset, which may additionally incorporate augmented actuality applied sciences, will reportedly work with a whole lot of 1000’s of iPad apps and value a minimum of $3,000.
Meta first introduced that it will debut the Quest 3 this yr as a part of the corporate’s third-quarter 2022 earnings when it mentioned that the corporate’s value of income would develop partly due to “Reality Labs hardware costs driven by the launch of our next generation of our consumer Quest headset later next year.”
Meta continues to be spending closely within the metaverse, the yet-to-be-developed digital universe that requires digital actuality and augmented actuality applied sciences to entry.
The firm’s Reality Labs unit, which is creating VR and AR applied sciences, recorded an working lack of $3.99 billion within the firm’s first quarter whereas producing $339 million in income.
In July 2022, Meta raised the value of the entry-level Quest 2 from $299 to $399, citing an increase within the prices to fabricate and ship the machine. It mentioned on Thursday it should decrease the value of that headset again all the way down to $299 starting June 4.
Last October, Meta debuted its Quest Pro VR headset supposed for companies versus shoppers. Although the Quest Pro initially bought for $1,499.99, Meta lowered the value of the machine to $999.99 in March whereas additionally dropping the value of a costlier model of the Quest 2 headset with further storage from $499.99 to $429.99.
Research group NPD Group instructed CNBC final December that gross sales of VR headsets within the U.S. declined 2% in 2022 from a yr earlier to $1.1 billion, indicating that the immersive know-how continues to be far-off from being a mainstream shopper electronics hit.
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