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Meta’s New Quest Is Actually a Pair of VR Glasses

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Meta’s New Quest Is Actually a Pair of VR Glasses

If you had a new Quest headset on your Meta Connect bingo card, I have bad news and good news. The bad news is there is no Quest. The good news is VR hasn’t been forgotten; in fact, it’s kind of the highlight of this year’s hardware releases from the company.

Meta finally unveiled its $1,299 Meta VR Glasses, a long-rumored pair of XR glasses tethered to a compute puck. If you’re familiar with Google and Xreal’s Aura glasses, the idea is similar. The Meta VR Glasses shrink down the abilities of a Quest headset into a glasses-like form factor, allowing you to play games in XR/VR, watch movies, and use the glasses as a virtual multi-monitor setup for productivity.

Maybe the Quest isn’t the best comparison, though. This display inside the Meta VR Glasses is premium—like, Vision Pro premium. Meta says the Meta VR Glasses have a micro-OLED display with a 5K resolution and 37 pixels per degree. Having tried it myself, it looks very crisp, and that’s not the only trick it borrows from the Vision Pro. To control the Meta VR Glasses, you don’t need additional hardware—you can use your fingers to pinch to select and control the cursor using just your eyes. Like in Apple’s visionOS, you just look and pinch, and boom, you’re navigating a UI.

A nice-looking screen doesn’t mean much if you don’t have plenty of experiences, though, and on that front, Meta’s ambitions are pretty high. There’s gaming, of course; Meta says there will be 75 games at launch that you can play with just hand gestures and that you’ll be able to play the entire Quest catalog by pairing Quest controllers (yes, you can use the ones you already own).


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