Meta Quest 3S

That's what the vast, vast majority of VR games use.

But as any of you who watched the sort of previous iteration of VR Dino will know, I was always ranting about how Quest 3 and Quest 3S exclusively among any headset in the industry can do this magical thing called inside out upper body tracking where they will optically through the downwards facing side cameras track your elbows shoulders and torso so with this i can actually raise my elbow up and keep my hand still my hand tracking is not changing my head tracking is not changing the only thing i'm changing here is my elbow movement, for example.

Or I can keep my elbow still and rotate my hand.

And as you can see, while obviously it's not possible to keep fully still as a human being, in general, this is entirely now optically driven.

You can have an inventory that is torso-based, that is actually... sort of compelling because a lot of VR games try to use a torso-based inventory system.

But what you'll notice is that it sucks because it's not really your torso.

They're not tracking your torso in 99.9% of VR games because almost every headset except Quest 3 and Quest 3S can't even do it without strapping trackers onto your body.

That's a completely different story, of course.

Because for the longest time, the Quest 2 was the biggest VR headset.

And if you combine the Quest 3 and the cheaper Quest 3S, it's ahead by quite a bit.

But the cheaper standalone meta stuff still has well over half of the market for SteamVR, which is interesting because that's not how they're sold.

They're sold as...

Meta is not immune to this.

Uh, even the Quest 3 went up to $600 and the Quest 3S up to 350.

And whereas on this show, we used to talk about how we were lo- so looking forward to a future cheaper Apple headset, right? In the old timeline, the old days, we would have had it by now.

We would be in that, you know, $2,000 Apple Vision Air.

Now, it wouldn't get concrete on that.

You know, is that gonna include the volumetric version? It seems like the answer is yes, but I don't think we can say that definitively yet.

To me, though, this is going to be the first time we see this concept become sort of mainstream, the idea that you'll be able to pick up at most $1,300, at least maybe, you know, $600 for the Quest 3, 350 for the Quest 3S, and start, you know, having photorealistic calls.

And of course, the instant that they release the SDK for it to replace Meta avatars, we will have it in this studio, and we'll be able to be these volumetric avatars here.

Tetris Effect.

Mixed Realities is dropping in 2027 on Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S, and the fancy Meta VR glasses.

This isn't your grandma's Tetris.

Monstars and Resonair are cooking up a magical mixed reality twist that'll turn your boring old room into wild places like deep-sea aquariums and space stations.

And of course, Ace Attorney and Tetris Effect mixed realities are both also going to be available on the Quest.

So if you have a Quest 3, Quest 3S, you can play Tetris Effect mixed realities in 2027.

I think you have a 2, right? I think we have a 2, yeah.

Yeah, so maybe you won't be playing it.

That's just way too much.

Or even $350 for the MetaQuest 3S or whatever, the cheaper one.

Right, I always

forget about the cheap one.

With everything happening on the puck, it only weighs 100 grams on your head.

That's about a fifth of what the Quest 3S weighs.

Runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite processor.

Has three hours of battery life, so that's double the Quest 3.