Meta Confirms Quest 3 VR Headset Is Arriving In 2023 - CNET

Meta's caller $1500 Quest Pro business-targeted VR headset has conscionable arrived, but Meta has confirmed that a mainstream, lower-cost follow-up to the two-year-old Quest 2 is coming successful 2023. The quality dropped during Meta's latest earnings report, which revealed that Meta mislaid different $3.67 cardinal connected its VR/AR division, with expectations for greater losses successful 2023. 

According to Meta's report, "growth successful outgo of gross is expected to accelerate, driven by infrastructure-related expenses and, to a lesser extent, Reality Labs hardware costs driven by the motorboat of our adjacent procreation of our user Quest headset aboriginal adjacent year." 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg already confirmed that a follow-up to the Quest 2 is coming successful a caller interrogation with Ben Thomson, and that its terms is expected to beryllium around the same arsenic the Quest 2. If Meta's past VR headset launches are indications, it'll apt travel astatine Meta's adjacent Connect league adjacent fall.

The Quest 2's terms accrued earlier this year, but remains 1 of the astir affordable self-contained VR headsets, mostly due to the fact that it's subsidized by Meta. TikTok genitor institution ByteDance released a competing, similar-priced VR headset successful Europe and Asia, the Pico 4, which has upgrades successful headset optics and its onboard cameras, features that could besides travel to the Quest 3 on with an upgraded processor. Meta whitethorn not incorporated look and oculus tracking into the Quest 3, however, leaving those features to its business-focused Pro device.