Meta Quest 3

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LostBoyNZ

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#309196 28-Sep-2023 08:58

More details were announced today at Meta Connect, and pre-orders opened. Expected delivery date in NZ is Sat Oct 14th.

128gb is $929.99, 512gb is $1199.99.

By the way if you're ordering, feel free to PM me and we both get US $30 store credit with a referral :)

You get Asgard's Wrath game for free with them, and the 512gb version comes with 6 months of free Quest + (their subscription where you get 2 pre-selected games to use for each month).

In terms of options:

The Elite headstrap (instead of using the included fabric strap) is $129.99, and the Elite head strap with battery isn't available in NZ from Meta again. Likely it'll be orderable from Amazon though. Same with the charging dock, interestingly it doesn't seem to be available. There's a carrying case for $129.99.

Valve Index style knuckles controller hand straps are sold for $79.99, and a silicone facial interface (instead of the included cloth one) is $79.99.

Lastly a cable to link it to a PC for PC VR games is $139.99, although you can always try Air Link over Wi-Fi. And if you have a Wi-Fi 6E the Quest 3 supports Wi-Fi 6E so even better for streaming PC gaming.

As for gaming, they said no Quest 3 exclusives this year. So likely they'll start slowly appearing next year I guess. The Quest 2 recently got a CPU and GPU clock speed increase (up to 26% CPU and up to 19% on GPU) so that might help keep Quest 3 exclusives away for longer.

Personally I wish they'd included eye tracking, although the price is already high enough considering they want to sell to the masses, so perhaps it's good they didn't.

I love how there's no need to setup your boundary anymore, anything that can make it quicker and easier to get into playing something on the headset is brilliant.

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#3135727 28-Sep-2023 09:06

quite the leap in price

LostBoyNZ

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#3135729 28-Sep-2023 09:14

Yeah!! My credit card is surely crying this morning. With the last mega expensive headset they launched, the Quest Pro, just 6 months after release the price was cut by 1/3. Makes me wonder how sales will go with the Quest 3, and if they aren't up to their predications, what they'll do with the price.

And I think the 128gb choice will be too little space one day. It happened with the 64gb Quest 2, and I bet a 256gb Quest 3 will happen one day.

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#3135992 28-Sep-2023 15:47

I might wait closer to Xmas, hope for a price drop or sale. It's a shame accessories add so much to the cost. I definitely need the silicone face interface because fabric ones are no good during sweat sessions. I also have snap-in prescription lenses for my Quest 2 so I don't have to wear my glasses, which I'm sure don't fit the Quest 3 (?).

Also I want to see if Valve have anything new coming out, I don't own a lot of games on the Quest platform, most are on Steam. So prepared to switch if they should bring out something better.

Will see if I can resist buying the Quest 3 regardless

LostBoyNZ

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#3136008 28-Sep-2023 16:33

Yeah $80 for two plastic bits and a strap (the controller hand strap) seems crazy.

The lenses on the Quest 3 are completely different, so you're correct that the prescription Quest 2 lenses won't fit this.

On the things I love though, it's great that it's received a new chip with better graphics, and it's exciting to hear that the Assassin's Creed Nexus VR is receiving good first impressions. Apparently it's a full Assassin's Creed game, the type of game I hope will become more common in VR.

Meta are great at constant firmware updates that add new features and refine others, so I look forward to seeing what else they bring to Quest 3 as time goes on too.

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#3136086 28-Sep-2023 19:17

The extras pricing is annoying when it's all 100% needed. The price jump is ok for the MQ3 spec. A small jump for better gaming. Compare it with Apple Vision Pro price.

I have some experience with second gen. Third gen does not excite me enough to buy again I think.

I'm interested to know what y'all find MQ3 useful for.

LostBoyNZ

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#3136403 29-Sep-2023 10:50

Personally (aside from the VR rental business) I'm looking forward to some cool AR experiences. For example I'd love to have Walkabout Mini Golf around the house, or a shooting game where I can hide behind real objects as cover. Like how VR can give you experiences that aren't possible on a flat screen, I want AR to deliver new experiences.

Shooting at something that's just going around your room and not interacting with the surroundings, I'm not interested in that because the good old 3DS already did that. But if a game can really understand the surroundings and integrate those into the experience, I'd love to see that. I guess it'll be a while still, but I do believe the Quest 3 could do it.

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#3136758 30-Sep-2023 09:32

In other words, apart from general gaming the quality of passthrough and stability of AR objects will be key to frequency of use.

I'm thinking the video is overly optimistic about those aspects.

I'm guessing like the previous models applications using all the features and simple dynamics done extremely well (eg; beatsabre) could be the winners again.

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#3137892 2-Oct-2023 18:10

I guess NZ didnt qualify for colours either. I didnt get a choice.

LostBoyNZ

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#3137895 2-Oct-2023 18:20

Apologies, it seems they didn't extend the referral program to Quest 3, that's disappointing.

Regarding colours though, they're items sold separately via https://www.meta.com/nz/quest/accessories/ Hopefully that helps but the colour certainly adds to the cost too.

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#3152721 27-Oct-2023 13:07

Is there a physical store that I can buy it or try it?
I wanted to try it as a monitor for working. I need to see how’s the resolution.

LostBoyNZ

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#3152726 27-Oct-2023 13:13

Not in New Zealand unfortunately, but I'd love to see PB Tech start selling it at some point and to have display kiosks like Best Buy in the states have.

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#3152758 27-Oct-2023 14:54

robertosc: Is there a physical store that I can buy it or try it? I wanted to try it as a monitor for working. I need to see how’s the resolution.

Previous model wasn't great res for my daily work. I tried it for half a day. There are groups of people who used it longer using semi-dedicated setups. Incrementally the 3 doesn't offer a whole lot more res. I agree it's worth a try.

Vision Pro could be very interesting..

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#3152919 27-Oct-2023 22:11

3 is very good clarity compared to 2. I can make out fine detail and text in multiple windows side by side. It's still not a perfect display, bit it's far beyond what the 2 has.