Meta’s Quest 3 headset will have better mixed reality tech, according to Zuckerberg
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#68G2A)
The current-gen Quest 2. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge A key feature from Meta's $1,499.99 Quest Pro headset will make an appearance - in some form - in a more affordable consumer-focused headset coming later this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the company's latest earnings release. That key feature is support for Meta Reality, the technology that's designed to allow virtual reality headsets to also be used for augmented reality, resulting in a so-called mixed reality headset.
Meta confirmed in a previous earnings call that the headset, likely to be called the Meta Quest 3, is planned for release in late 2023. Zuckerberg expects it to cost between $300 and $500, around a third of the enterprise-focused Quest Pro.
The MR [mixed reality] ecosystem is relatively new, but I think it's going...