The details from The Verge and the Quest 3 leak from YouTuber Brad Lynch are essentially confirmed in the study, which was released on Sunday.
A Meta Quest 3 prototype was handled by Bloomberg writer Mark Gurman. DeeSax, a VR YouTuber, spoke with Mark Gurman and followed up with him to get queries about the Bloomberg report answered. Gurman claims that Meta refused to answer any questions and that Meta did not grant him access to the prototype. Gurman was, therefore, probably testing a development unit.
Twitter user and mixed reality developer CIX wrote shortly after the article’s publication that he had also played Meta Quest 3, although he afterwards deleted his tweets. Contrary to the Bloomberg article, Quest 3 weighs 509 grammes as opposed to 503 grammes for Quest 2, according to CIX.
When asked about the fact, Gurman was reported as saying that his hands-on was Quest 3, not the Apple device. He also remarked that Quest 3 was 509 grammes, only a few grammes more than Quest 2, but it seemed lighter to him, and he did not bring a scale with him. Moreover, it also felt lighter on the face. The Quest’s reduced weight is likely a result of its slimmer design.
The smartphone has a redesigned front. It has three vertical pill-shaped sensor sections across the front rather than a boring grey face. Both a regular camera and a colour video pass-through camera are included in the left and right pills, allowing participants to see their surroundings. That indicates that it features two colour cameras as opposed to Quest 2’s single non-colour camera. The device is thinner than the Quest 2, according to Gurman and CIX. The key component of mixed reality is video pass-through. Without the use of transparent lenses, it relies on external cameras to provide headset wearers with a live video stream of the outside world.
He also said that the form factor was a significant improvement, and the device, codenamed Eureka, feels much lighter and thinner as compared to the Quest 2 from 2020. Gurman claims the prototype he saw is “100% identical to the renders,” which were leaked by Brad Lynch in October, in terms of appearance and design. He also adds that the headband on Quest 3 is much better and of higher quality than the one on Quest 2.
Gurman also examines the passthrough mode’s quality, contrasting it with that of the Quest 2, and confirms that it supports smartphone use. He tried mixed reality on Quest 3. Instead of seeing the home environment, like a grey screen or whatever it has been set to, it is the real world behind, and this is the same thing that is done by Apple. Gurman predicts that the price will be $500, which is higher than the $400 of the Quest 2.
