Meta announced the Quest 3S, the latest virtual-reality headset to come out of the company’s Reality Labs division and a cheaper offering than its…
Meta announced the $299 Quest 3S, the latest virtual reality headset to come out of the company's Reality Labs division and a cheaper offering than its predecessor, the $499 Quest 3.
Many of the new Meta features that the company discussed on Tuesday for its $299 Quest 3S have counterparts on Apple's Vision Pro, including a mode that allows for the device to be used on an airplane and another that simulates a large movie theater inside the headset. "All the things you can do with a general purpose computer, Quest is the full package," Zuckerberg said.
Additionally, Meta said it will discontinue the Quest Pro, its $999 headset launched in 2022 that never gained much momentum.Zuckerberg's justification for spending so much on VR and augmented reality is his belief that the technology will eventually end up in lightweight, transparent glasses that overlay computer graphics and information onto the real world.
Zuckerberg said the device revealed on Wednesday was Meta's first"fully-functioning" prototype of the glasses, and would be physically tethered to a small"puck." Zuckerberg also said that it would take advantage of a wrist-based interface, which came out of stems from the company's 2019 Meta does sell a pair of glasses with a built-in camera in partnership with EssilorLuxottica called Ray-Ban Meta, which start at $299. While these glasses don't have any displays, they do have tiny speakers that allow the device to play music or interact with Meta AI, the company's voice assistant.For example, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses will be able to detect when a user is looking at a sign in Spanish and, if asked, can translate in the user's ear, a new improvement, Meta said.
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