Meta’s annual Join convention kicks off with a keynote tomorrow September 27 at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Fb’s mother or father is anticipated 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 just a little below a yr because the firm unveiled the Quest Professional — a mixed-reality headset geared toward enterprise customers.
Whereas corporations like Magic Leap have pivoted everything 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 large has discovered probably 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 business (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 colour combined actuality,” including that it’s, “40% thinner and extra snug [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 value. The corporate is little question going to be pushing the value 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 observe alongside stay, your finest guess is bookmarking Meta’s Facebook page (Fb’s Meta web page?). The corporate will probably be livestreaming the keynote over there. And, after all, preserve it locked into TechCrunch for the most recent.
