The Quest 3's attempt at mixed reality is far from perfect – the color cameras deliver a fuzzy and pixelated view of the world, as if you're in a drug-fueled haze. But it’s still pretty useful.

The Quest 2 offers only a grainy black-and-white view of the outer world that’s useless for anything other than making sure you don’t bump into the coffee table.

Meta’s $500 Quest 3 headset, arriving in stores on Oct. 10 (pre-orders start on Wednesday), has sharper graphics than its predecessor, the Quest 2, which costs $200 less.

One of the biggest gripes developers have with creating mixed reality content for Quest has been the lack of access to the headset’s cameras. That’s about to change. At Connect this week, Meta ...

Meta offers more powerful graphics and "mixed reality" experiences with their new Quest 3 VR headset. But at $500, the device lacks many stand-out games to justify the price.

For context, the Meta Quest 2 offers an early 60s TV version of mixed reality. That is to say that it only revealed your surroundings in low fidelity grayscale. Quest 3 adds some color.

At Meta’s 2023 Connect conference, the company introduced the Meta Quest 3, a mixed-reality VR headset. It starts at $500 and you can pre-order it now , with devices shipping beginning Oct. 10.

You’ll be able to have a large multiple-monitor workstation through Quest 3 headsets in public preview next month. We’re still waiting to hear when Windows Volumetric Apps will be ...

This comes as Meta has just released Quest 3S, its new $300 mixed reality headset that undoubtedly hopes to replicate Quest 2’s success by packing in Quest 3’s chipset and full-color mixed ...

Those examples of mixed reality sound convincing. But after spending a few hours with the Quest 3, I got the impression that the outward-facing cameras won’t solve virtual reality’s most ...