Meta’s upcoming Meta Quest 3 to cost between $400 to $670 CAD

Meta’s $2,299 Meta Quest Pro is lending one in all its key options to an upcoming, comparatively reasonably priced, consumer-focused Meta headset, as shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg within the firm’s Q4, 2022 earnings call.

“Later this 12 months, we’re going to launch our subsequent technology shopper headset, which is able to function Meta Actuality as properly, and I anticipate that that is going to ascertain this know-how because the baseline for all headsets going ahead, and finally after all for AR glasses as properly,” stated Zuckerberg.

MR, or, Meta Actuality, is a at present Quest Professional-exclusive function that enables the VR (Digital Actuality) headset to double as an AR (Augmented Actuality) headset, leading to what Meta describes as a Blended Actuality expertise the place customers can work together with their dwell atmosphere with a VR filter over it.

In line with reports from last year, the upcoming, comparatively reasonably priced headset will probably be referred to as Meta Quest 3, and it’ll launch late in 2023. It’s going to reportedly price between $300 and $500 USD (roughly $400 CAD to $670 CAD), making it roughly three to 5 instances cheaper than the Quest Professional.

The Quest Professional makes use of two digital camera views to provide a 3D view of your environment and lets individuals see the world round them with overlaid colored graphics. The Quest 2 additionally has this function, but it surely’s restricted to black and white. It will be attention-grabbing to see how Meta implements the function in a 3 to five-times cheaper headset, and what bodily kind the brand new headset will take.

It’s necessary to notice that the Meta Actuality function has acquired combined opinions, with The Verge discovering that the color passthrough on the headset lacks resemblance to the true world, and the video footage is “fuzzy,” and “murky in low gentle, washed-out or flickery in vivid gentle, and typically luridly saturated in between.”

A report from UploadVR means that the upcoming Quest 3 might function a depth sensor to render the area round you and permit for hand-tracking capabilities. The identical report additionally means that the Quest 3 will make use of pancake lenses for a extra compact design, alongside a extra highly effective Qualcomm processor.

Supply: Meta Q4, 2022 Earnings Call Through: The Verge, UploadVR