Meta Quest 3 128GB— Breakthrough Mixed Reality Headset — Powerful Performance

Game-changing
I’ve been in the VR game for a while now, going all the way back to the Oculus Rift dev kit 2 days. My other current headset is a Valve Index, and I mainly bought the Quest 3 with the intention of playing the Quest-exclusive games, fully expecting it to feel like a toy in comparison.In practice, I’m in love with this thing. The displays are both high resolution and high quality, with little to no screendoor effect, and the tracking is impressively stable for something only being tracked by cameras and software. I thought the removal of the rings from the Q2 controllers would cause them to have more issues with occlusion, but I haven’t noticed anything. Even the features I didn’t know it had are pretty cool for the games that support them, like its mixed reality and controller-free hand tracking. But the thing that’s really going to keep me away from my Index (at least for the games that aren’t specifically tailored to it, like Half Life Alyx) is that I had no idea how much I needed to ditch the cable and play wirelessly until now. Being able to just walk around in my room without having to be aware of the cable behind me is such a nice feeling that it feels like I’m getting into VR for the first time again.With that said, there are some small caveats — namely, that this is not really a $500 headset. Meta has taken on a sort of Spirit Airlines approach, where the headset itself is affordably priced in exchange for other basic things being extremely expensive “accessories”. The strap is the main offender, with the default one being the rough equivalent of just tying the headset to your head. They’re happy to sell you a $60 strap, or a $130 one that extends the battery, though! And while you’re at it you can blow $80 on a cable for linking it to your pc if you aren’t a fan of wireless tethering, a $70 carrying case, a $40 silicone facial interface for extra comfort, a $130 charging dock to replace the controllers needing AA batteries, $40 hand straps for the controllers to give them Index-esque free-hand support… To be clear, most, if not all of these have off-brand counterparts that are just as good (or better!) for a fraction of the price, but my point is this is not a fully out of the box experience for those with more discerning tastes. For parents buying them for their younger children they’ll probably be thrilled with it anyways, and can safely ignore all of that, but I would wager most adults will probably end up wanting at least a new head strap of some kind, whether it’s the official one or not.Ignoring the troublesome accessories, though, this is an easy win as far as I’m concerned. The only real competition is that the Quest 2 is still holding its own as well from what I hear, and for prices that seem to be as low as they could possibly be around the holiday season. I can’t speak first-hand on whether the Q3 is worth a $300 difference, but I can say I don’t regret buying it. I held off on the Quest line of headsets because I’ve never been a big fan of Meta as a company, but I have to begrudgingly admit that this is probably the best vr headset at the best price you could get right now.

The best VR headset, hands down.
The meta quest 3 is the successor to the meta quest 2 and that is VERY apparent during both initial setup and usage afterwards.Pros:Clarity, Clarity is an absolute GEM with this VR headset, the pancake lenses are so good and clear that when I tried to use a quest 2 it was like looking through the pancake lenses but rubbed all over with VaselineGameplay: the increased resolution and power compared to the quest 2 are absolutely insane. To put it in perspective, The quest 2 and 3 both do a game called “beatsaber” at a lower than native resolution. Looks a little pixelated but that’s what the quest 2 could do. Quest 3 can play at the quality of a PC if you tweak it right (install mods to increase resolution, quest 2 would struggle)Weight: The weight distribution is also better, even though the headset is only slightly lighter, because the headset itself is closer to yout face, the weight extrudes less meaning its less front heavy causing less strain on your neck.Middle:Comfort- Comfy headset? Heck yes! But not really with the included strap. The included strap doesn’t really even out the weight and puts too much pressure on eyebrows, nose, and cheeks. I found that a halo strap (usually around $35+, mine is the bobovr m3 pro) is a MUST have. The weight makes it feel like you aren’t even WEARING a headset.Cons:Space for glasses- if you wear glasses then you will need either an additional spacer for the face cover or lense inserts (I use the Zenni inserts, meta approved). They definitely helped a ton, before when I used glasses with it it put a ton of pressure on my face, which made it bruised in the middle right between my eyes, however, the lense inserts are so good cannot even feel them!Misinterpreted con:Battery life-Battery life is technically worse, however, this is because of passthrough (most of the time, anyways). Passthrough requires the headset to process both a GAME and the environment around you, It isn’t just a camera displaying an image, it’s 4 cameras stitching together an image in real-time and sensing depth ad well as keeping track of where you are in the plane of the 3d vr world to ensure proper tracking. Hence why it uses more Battery. The quest 3 also uses more battery in heavier more “intesive” games that take advantage of the quest 3’s extra performance over the quest 2. An easy and not too expensive remedy is a Battery bank. For games in which you have to move around I recommend the bobovr m3 pro or S3 because they feature Battery packs, the m3 pro has a 5000mah battery bank that increases battery capacity by around 2-3 hours and the s3 around 4-6. And these batteries are hot swappable meaning you can buy more, charge them as you play, and when your existing batteries die you can change them! For basically infinite playtimeI totally recommend this headset for anyone either still on the quest 1, sharing a quest 2, or as your first VR headset ever. Battery life isn’t really a problem and a battery bank (18watts or higher) is a great way to fix any battery life issues you’ll have, especially for Mixed reality passthrough games

My previous VR device was the original Oculus Rift. You had to use a few USB ports on your PC and setup a zone in one area that the two infrared sensors could see. The motion tracking wasn’t always great, and the headset fogged up quickly. I recently upgraded to the Quest 3 after all these years and wow, VR has come a long way.The passthrough allows me to go anywhere in my house and setup a massive boundary at any time. It’s not very clear, but it’s very useable. The videos you see posted of recordings from the headset are much more clear than the physical use of it. Performance wise, it’s incredible. I generally play games directly from the headset and they work flawlessly. The battery life isn’t great, it lasts a couple hours or so depending on what you’re doing, but to be honest I can only use it for max that long as my forehead starts to hurt. Both of these issues can be fixed with a 3rd party battery strap, however I have yet to set mine up. The lenses never fog up, regardless of how strenuous the game I’m playing might be. The audio is very cool, it comes from tiny speakers in the strap of the headset that are funneled towards your ears. The quality is actually quite good and it doesn’t disturb anyone around you much at all.As for gaming via Steamlink. I’ve only tried it via wireless as of now, and have a very good router, but it does seem to work well. I have had a couple instances while playing HL Alyx that the quality drops and the movement glitches but generally it’s been very playable.Overall, it’s a very worthy upgrade if you are a few generations back, no doubt. Looking back on it, the Quest 2 might have been more than enough for me, but truly the upgraded lenses and the passthrough feature has been excellent and frankly I use it more than I thought I would. Excellent device.

ürünü kullandım, herhangi bir kusuru yoktu paketlenmesi güzel yapılmıştı, kargo elime 2 gunde ulaştı. satıcı ile iletişimim çok kolaydı, buradan alacaksanız tavsiye ederim.