Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset may be accessible to buy someday quickly. A brand new Meta-made VR headset has simply proven up within the Federal Communications Fee’s (FCC) database, that means the system might be bought within the US.
As famous by UploadVR, a picture of the FCC label on this system doesn’t really embody the phrases “Quest 3.” However provided that Meta has already introduced the Quest 3, promised to share extra concerning the system at its September Join occasion, and that this new headset has its FCC label in principally the identical spot because the Quest 2, it looks like a reasonably secure wager that this itemizing is for the Quest 3. And one enchancment we will already inform from the filings? The brand new headset will assist Wi-Fi 6E.
Meta is promising that the Quest 3 will likely be an enormous improve over the Quest 2, with a slimmer design, a brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, and assist for shade passthrough. Nonetheless, it would come at a dearer worth: whereas you will get the Quest 2 for a newly lowered beginning value of $299.99, the Quest 3 will begin at $499.99.
Two Meta-made handheld controllers have additionally appeared within the FCC’s database, which UploadVR observed in July, and it appears seemingly they’re the Quest 3’s new Contact Plus controllers. Meta already revealed that the Contact Plus controllers will look completely different from those who got here with the Quest 2 and received’t have the outer monitoring rings. They’ll additionally include Meta’s “TruTouch” haptics discovered within the Meta Quest Professional’s Contact Professional controllers.
When it introduced the Quest 3, Meta stated that it’ll have “tons extra to share at Meta Join” on September twenty seventh and that the system will ship within the fall. Fingers crossed we get a agency launch date on the present.