The Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut to $199
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#6M6CG)
The Meta Quest 2 and its bundled controllers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 has been on sale for nearly a month, and today, Meta's making that price permanent - $199 is the new sticker price for the virtual reality headset, the company announced today. That's half what it originally cost in 2020, and Meta is permanently cutting the price of Quest 2 accessories like the Elite Strap with Battery (which I highly recommend) in half as well.
The Quest 2 is currently being supplanted by the $500 Quest 3, of course, but it's still an incredible entry point to VR, one that plays every Quest game except for a single Quest 3-exclusive title announced last month. It doesn't have color passthrough vision or good mixed reality gaming, and I definitely prefer the Quest 3 for comfort and immersion, but I...