Five ways the Meta Quest 3 will (let developers) change the game

On Wednesday, Meta didn't announce an obvious killer app alongside the $499 Meta Quest 3 headset - unless you count the bundled Asgard's Wrath 2 or Xbox Cloud Gaming in VR.

But if you watched the company's Meta Connect keynote and developer session closely, the company revealed a bunch of intriguing improvements that could help devs build a next-gen portable headset game themselves.

Graphics - look how far we've come

This is the obvious one, but it's also stunning to see just how much better the same games can look on Quest 3 vs. Quest 2. A lot of that's thanks to the doubled graphical horsepower and increased CPU performance of the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, though there's additional RAM, resolution per eye, and field of view as well:

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