In the hopes of puzzle ahead of theApple Vision Proannouncement at WWDC , Meta hold out ahead and let on itsQuest 3virtual reality headset ahead of time . Now it ’s ready to tell us more .
The Meta Quest 3 headset will go on sales agreement on October 10 , startle at $ 499.00/£479.99 for 128 GB of computer memory , with pre - ordersnow openfor the successor to the radical - successfulQuest 2 . We ’ve gonehands on with the headset at Oculus Connect today .
As revealed back on June 1 , the primary merchandising full point for the substantially more expensive headset is the passthrough technology to enable augmented realism experiences . in effect , it ’s a more affordable version of theQuest Prothe company hasstruggled to budge .
Meta filled in a slew of the spec gaps missing from the June reveal , explain the Quest 3 will have a 30 % display firmness of purpose saltation and 40 % louder audio from the build - in Speaker with bread and butter for spatial audio .
While the Quest 2 made it potential to at least see through the front of the headset ( mainly for safety reason ) , Quest 3 goes much far with Full Colour Passthrough . That ’s possible through the much more pronounced camera regalia on the front of the headset .
There are also big improvements in the 4 K displays , with a 2064 x 2208 LCD panel per centre . That ’s an astonishing 1,218 pixels per inch . You ’ll get an improved 110 x 96 point field of scene from these pancake lens and if you ’re not get under one’s skin a sodding view , there ’s a wheel within the computer hardware you’re able to utilise to tweak the visual experience .
The presence of the AR mode makes it a more workable competition to Apple ’s Vision Pro and will almost certainly trade more than a product that costs 7 - fourth dimension as much and ask a wearable battery multitude . Meta is calling it the “ First Mass - Market Mixed Reality Headset . ”
Switching between VR and the AR commingle modes can be attain via the controller or with a finger tapping gesture . In the blended mode you ’ll be able to build up LEGO circle ( below ) and play a virtual piano on your java table for case .
utter of the Touch Controllers , they ’re a little more refined in both weight and size . The headset itself is more or less smaller with a 40 % slimmer visibility , albeit 8 grams grievous than the Quest 2 ( 513 g vs 503 1000 )
As we already knew , the Quest 3 will run off a novel Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor and is the first to run this chipset which will be join by 8 GB of RAM . Meta consider the internals will double the graphical performance . That novel processor also promise passthrough latency of 12 msec for those AR experiences , which should see any apparent motion sickness reduced to a minimum .
The Quest 3 is also all back compatible with all 500 + apps and game currently available within the Oculus Score . The company is also sell a Modern charging dock for all three element – the two touch controllers and the headset itself – for £ 129.99/$129.99 .
