Name for Meta’s more affordable VR headset leaked

The title of Meta’s subsequent – and rumoured to be extra inexpensive – digital actuality Quest headset has seemingly been leaked.

Meta’s upcoming blended actuality headset will apparently be known as the Quest 3S. The information comes by way of a Quest Retailer itemizing spotted by UploadVR, Meta lists the Quest 3S as a supported system. Since this system shouldn’t be but in the marketplace, it appears seemingly that this would be the subsequent headset launched.

There are a selection of different apps included, suggesting that this isn’t a one-off or a glitch, and that the upcoming headset can have widespread performance.

What’s Meta’s Quest 3S?

Following on from the Quest 3, which has drawn criticism for being the most expensive headset yet, the subsequent headset will reportedly be a extra inexpensive different. This title seems to underline this rumor, mimicking Apple’s tendency to call its smaller, cheaper variations of the earlier title with a easy ‘S’ afterward.

Throughout an inside presentation final yr from Mark Rabkin, Meta’s vp of VR, he talked about {that a} cheaper blended actuality headset was developing on the corporate’s product roadmap, codenamed Ventura. On the time, Rabkin acknowledged that the purpose was to “pack the largest punch we are able to on the most engaging value level within the VR client market.”

Seeing because the Quest 3 got here out in October, we may see a Quest 3S launch window as early as this fall, or there could possibly be an extended wait in retailer. Not many particulars are but identified concerning the headset other than the tight-lipped feedback from Rabkin and a few unsubstantiated rumors. With the Quest 3 taking part in an enormous position in producing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for Apple, it appears unlikely that the corporate will stop whereas it’s forward.

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