Interesting Facts About Headset VR Meta Quest 3 Which Becomes Apple's Challenger, Not Just Much Cheaper!

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JAKARTA - Meta has just introduced the Virtual Reality (VR) headset, Quest 3 which is claimed to be lighter and more comfortable to use. However, this device will only be present between September and December 2023.

Compared to its predecessor Quest 2, Quest 3 brings many improvements to the features embedded in the headset.

If you are interested in buying this next-generation VR headset and mixed reality (MR), here VOI will inform you of the interesting facts about Meta Quest 3, which you should consider before buying them.

1. Powered by Advanced Chips

Quest 3 combines the highest resolution display and pancake optics to make content look better than ever. To power these extra pixels, it will be the first headset featuring next-generation Snapdragon chipsets, thanks to the results of a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies.

Next-generation Snapdragon chipsets, will bring graphic performance more than double the previous generation of Snapdragon GPUs in Quest 2, meaning you'll get a finer performance and very sharp detail in an immersive game.

2. Virtual World Can Look Real

Quest 3 is equipped with Meta Reality, where you can seamlessly integrate the real world and virtual world. That technology can easily understand and respond to objects in physical space and you can navigate that space in a natural and intuitive way that was previously almost impossible.

Passthrough colors of high fidelity, innovative machine learning, and spatial understanding, can offer users interactions with virtual content and the physical world simultaneously, creating an unlimited possibility to explore.

You can also play a virtual board game on the kitchen table with Demeo, hiasi your living room with virtual artwork from Painting VR or plunge into a very immersive world to do things that are impossible to do otherwise.

3. More Ramping and Lighter

With an optical profile of 40 percent slimmer than Quest 2, Quest 3 will be more comfortable to use. Meta states, this is thanks to the redesign of the Touch Plus headset controller with a slimmer and ergonomic form factor.

Thanks to advances in tracking technology, Meta has removed the outer tracking ring so the controller feels like a more natural extension of the user's hand and doesn't take up much space.

Meta also includes the hatics TruTouch, which was first launched on the Touch Pro to help you feel an unprecedented action. In fact, users can update to a fully traceable Meta Quest Touch Pro Controller for premium experience.

And hand tracking will be supported outside the box, so you can browse without a controller, thanks to Direct Touch, where users can use their hands to interact with virtual objects.

4. Present an Imersive Content Library

Quest 3 is compatible with Quest 2's catalog containing more than 500 games, apps, VR experience and new, more interesting VR and MR titles will launch soon.

5. Prices Are Much Cheaper Than Competitors, Apple

Quest 3 is predicted to be a tough competitor with Apple's new headset dubbed Reality Pro. However, it looks like Meta will be superior in terms of price, which offers Quest 3 with 128GB of storage for US$299.99 equivalent to Rp4.4 million, and the 256GB version gets a discount to US$349.99 (Rp5.2 million) from US$429.99.

While Apple, priced its headset of around IDR 44 million. Even so, the company will carry a dual screen measuring Micro OLED 1.41 inches 4K each diagonally. Apple targets brightness of more than 5,000 nits and 4,000 pixels per inch.

6. Meta Launch Update on Quest 2

Along with Quest 3, Meta also released Quest 2 and Quest Pro software updates. Where both will see a CPU performance increase of up to 26 percent with an increase in GPU speed of up to 19 percent for Quest 2 and 11 percent for Quest Pro.

When a developer takes advantage of this change, you can expect a smoother gameplay, a more responsive UI, and richer content in both headsets.

Thanks to the Dynamic Resolution Scaling for Quest 2 and Quest Pro, you will also experience an increase in pixel density without losing your frame while playing games and running apps.