Meta’s annual Join convention kicks off with a keynote tomorrow September 27 at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Fb’s mum or dad is predicted to make the Meta Quest 3 the centerpiece of the occasion. The most recent model of the headset arrives three years after its predecessor and a bit of underneath a yr for the reason that firm unveiled the Quest Professional — a mixed-reality headset geared toward enterprise customers.
Whereas firms like Magic Leap have pivoted the whole lot of their focus to company coaching and prototyping, Meta nonetheless extraordinarily invested in client. Gaming (and to a far lesser extent the metaverse) is the place the social media big has discovered essentially the most luck. Whereas VR/AR haven’t been the rousing success Mark Zuckerberg et al. have been hoping for, Meta has a big headstart forward of the remainder of the trade (excepting perhaps Vive and PlayStation VR).
Zuck personally teased the Meta Quest 3 on Instagram a number of weeks in the past, calling it, “The primary mainstream headset with high-res coloration blended actuality,” including that it’s, “40% thinner and extra comfy [than the Quest 2]. Higher shows and backbone. Subsequent gen Qualcomm chipset with 2x the graphics efficiency. Our strongest headset but.”
He additionally went forward and revealed the $499 worth. The corporate is little doubt going to be pushing the worth level that dramatically undercuts the Magic Leap 2 ($3,299) and its personal Quest Professional ($1,000) — to not point out the 800-pound gorilla, Apple’s $3,499 Imaginative and prescient Professional.
We’ll be on the bottom on the occasion in Menlo Park, posting the information. If you wish to comply with alongside stay, your finest guess is bookmarking Meta’s Fb web page (Fb’s Meta web page?). The corporate might be livestreaming the keynote over there. And, in fact, preserve it locked into TechCrunch for the newest.
