Meta Teases Consumer-Grade Quest 3 VR Headset for 2023 - PCMag

On the heels of its Quest Pro VR headset release, Meta is already prepping for different consumer-grade instrumentality for adjacent year.

During this week's third-quarter earnings call(Opens successful a caller window), the tech conglomerate (which rebranded past twelvemonth to bespeak its displacement toward a integer metaverse) announced different $3 cardinal quarterly loss.

But immoderate of that cost, according to CFO David Wehner, tin beryllium attributed to continued concern successful caller hardware—including "the adjacent procreation of the user Quest headset," helium said, as reported by Engadget(Opens successful a caller window), acceptable for motorboat "later adjacent year."

The quality comes conscionable weeks aft Meta launched its $1,500 Quest Pro, which is aimed astatine endeavor users looking to integrate AR and VR into their workflows. If Mark Zuckerberg wants much radical to leap connected the metaverse bandwagon, though, determination needs to beryllium much budget-friendly options—like the Quest 2, which sells for $399.99 (128GB) oregon $499.99 (256GB).

"There is inactive a agelong roadworthy up to physique the adjacent computing platform, but we are intelligibly doing starring enactment here," Zuckerberg said during Wednesday's earning's call—aka, the metaverse. "This is simply a monolithic undertaking. And it’s often going to instrumentality a fewer versions of each merchandise earlier they go mainstream, but I deliberation that our enactment present is going to beryllium of historical value and make the instauration for an wholly caller mode that we volition interact with each different and blend exertion into our lives arsenic good arsenic the instauration for the semipermanent of our business."

The Meta CEO teased a alleged Quest 3 earlier this month, telling expert Ben Thompson(Opens successful a caller window) that the gadget volition apt outgo determination betwixt $300 and $500, putting it overmuch much successful enactment with erstwhile VR headsets, alternatively than the Quest Pro.