In the early morning of Beijing time this morning, Meta released the latest generation VR head display Quest 3S at its Connect conference. This is the new generation head display The latest virtual reality head display launched by the company's Reality Labs department is cheaper than the current generation of products. Last month
Meta said that the market launch Quest 3S will be launched on October 15, with a US dollar retail price of $299 and a new generation start price lower than the 2023 Quest 3499. Meta's Head Display A representative said that the "S" in the first month of Quest 3S represents the "start", which means that this device will enable consumers to popularize VR. From market
Meta said that USD Quest 3S can be used to watch movies, release and run VR fitness applications and games. The new generation Meta will position this head display as a multi task computing device. The head display will compete with the Vision Pro head display launched by Apple in February, which sells for $3499.
The Quest device before Meta is the best selling VR headworn device. With a large number of marketing and lower prices than many competitors, millions of sets have been shipped, but these efforts have not yet triggered a cultural phenomenon or mainstream software ecosystem around VR.
Including the acquisition of Oculus in 2014, Meta has invested more than 65 billion dollars in hardware. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, defended this expenditure, saying it was a strategic measure to prevent Apple from controlling the future hardware platform.
In addition to Quest 3S, Meta also announced the price reduction of Quest 3 last year, reducing the price of 512GB version from $649 to $499. Quest 3 has a more advanced lens and a high-quality screen with higher resolution than Quest 3S.
In addition, Meta also said that it would stop selling Quest Pro and the older Quest 2 head displays. Quest Pro sells for $999 and will be launched in 2022, but it has not gained much momentum.
In addition to Quest 3S, Meta also demonstrated its latest AR smart glasses prototype at Connect Conference, and announced a series of new functions of Meta AI chat robot.
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