Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not bad but still have room for improvement. Resolution still not good.

Fun, but hurts face after a while. Too much pressure on forehead

Still but laggy but improvement on product for the most part

The quest is great, but it lacks significant stationary gaming. Painting, drawing, beat saber, and games like that cause no nausea but roller coasters and shooter games that require a lot of movement can’t be played for more than a few minutes before I feel like I’m going to throw up.

I bought this item as a gift for my daughter. She loved it!

My experience with Quest 3 is decent. I am satisfied with the purchase.

Didnt get game.. Said free game but I did not get it...disappointed.

It's kinda fun... even thought FB banned me from Horizon World for no good reason... I played it for awhile and haven't actually touched it since... so .... it's kinda ok is the best I can say.

It was cool but not functional (not bad) seven out of ten

It’s fun. Not exactly what I expected. A little scary. My son loves it.

I have the Quest 2 and purchased the Quest 3 expecting it to be a lot lighter, i was surprised that wearing it wasn't a lot different from the Q2. Still fun but it could have been lighter to really set them apart.

Great visual quality. Software needs some fixes but that is kinda normal for quest. Will get better with time.Microphone is in a terrible spot, it catches all the breaths from your nose. Controller tracking is okay but for competitive shooters I recommend upgrading to the quest pro controllers.

Worse tracking and performance experience from a vr headset. If you have health issues with studering screens and flashing lights dont use this product.

Great fun good great for kids of all ages even old people

Meta (formerly Oculus) needs little introduction. As the most prominent name in virtual reality for the past decade, Meta’s devices continually try to push the envelope for what VR can do. The Quest line of devices introduced standalone, fully wireless VR to the world, and the Quest 2 remains the best-selling VR headset of all time, partly due to its affordability but also its deep app library and “good enough” take on VR to appeal to the masses - no expensive PC or clunky tether cable required. Meta’s third iteration of the Quest pushes forward with a significant increase in hardware specifications as one would expect, but takes the experience one step further by pushing beyond virtual reality (VR) and into a first serious attempt to bring augmented reality (AR) experiences to the forefront. Whether you’re in it just for VR or AR, Meta delivers the most compelling device for both use cases yet. -Initial Setup As with the Quest 2, Meta wastes little space or packaging material, relegating physical documentation to a health & safety pamphlet and leaving the rest to online manuals or the Meta Quest phone app. A brief intro to VR gets you started, with a Meta, Facebook, or Instagram account required to complete setup. A system update took a few minutes to install but allowed me time to download the app and create an account. New for the Quest 3 is the inclusion of an interpupillary distance (IPD) dial, which allows for fine tuning of horizontal lens spacing, and an adjustable facial interface gasket that has four settings for people who wear glasses. These are simple and easy to adjust so that the headset can sit as close to, and centered to, your eyes as possible. The hardest part of the process was figuring out how to adjust the updated cloth strap, but the new design is much more comfortable than the one included with the previous headset. -Visual Clarity There’s no other way I can put it - the Quest 3 has the sharpest, clearest visuals of any VR headset I’ve used. The ultra-high resolution display is orders of magnitude clearer than the Quest 2, and even most high-end PC VR headsets. Though only LCD rather than the rich OLEDs found in boutique VR devices, with reduced color depth and minimum darkness firmly in the grays, the resolution makes virtual worlds appear almost uncannily sharp, with absolutely no “screen door” effect I could make out. Clarity is vastly enhanced by the new “pancake” lenses shared from the Quest Pro, which are thinner than the fresnel lenses the Quest 2 and most other VR headsets use, and are designed to eliminate most of their shortcomings. As a result, the “sweet spot” where your eyes sit for optimal clarity is almost a thing of a past, and the clarity around the edges of your vision is immensely improved. If I had to quantify the difference, you can make out details twice as far into the distance, and four times more clearly in all situations. I have thousands of hours in VR games across all manner of headsets and the Quest 3 still left my jaw agape. -Passthrough / Augmented Reality A handy feature of the previous Quest, passthrough (the ability to see the room or environment around you while the headset is on) is massively improved with the addition of higher resolution, full color cameras and a depth sensor. Further refinement of video processing has led to a more stable image than the Quest 2 (though there’s still noticeable motion distortion, albeit much improved), and it’s surprisingly clear. It’s nowhere near the resolution of the Quest 3’s displays, mind, but it’s possible to read text messages and computer displays in most instances. Though passthrough was a limited convenience on the Quest 2 that turned off as you left your playspace, the Quest 3’s passthrough can be enabled and left on seemingly indefinitely. I used this feature to navigate my house on more than one occasion, though I do not recommend nor endorse this for safety reasons. The high quality passthrough enables the Quest 3 to become more of an AR (sometimes called “mixed reality”) device than just a VR one. Though several devices have tried previously, the high definition passthrough brings AR games to life in a way that truly feels next generation. It was incredible seeing my home pretty clearly as the backdrop for these sorts of experiences, with the walls of my living room becoming canvases for gigantic oil paintings, or using my dining room as a full scale arena with obstacles for a remote controlled mechwarrior in an action combat game. These early applications feel truly “next-generation” with just how clear and stable the passthrough feed is, and the whole experience is brimming with potential. This is the space to watch for the future of VR and AR. -Tracking Positional tracking feels greatly improved over the Quest 2. Like before, the headset uses “inside-out” tracking, which means it can only calculate its position relative to what it sees and detects in its environment as it moves, versus “lighthouse” tracking that some high-end VR systems use for fixed reference points. Inside-out has traditionally been less precise and stable than lighthouse, but with the Quest 3 I would be hard-pressed to tell the difference with the headset. I encountered not a single bounce, drift, or error in my time testing, even in some dimmer environments. Very impressive stuff. Controller tracking is also greatly improved. While side and behind-the-head tracking is still a tiny bit jumpy, the Quest 3 does a much better job keeping tabs on exactly where its controllers are despite their diminutive size relative to the Quest 2’s. Tried as I might to get the controllers to warp or glitch out, they remained accurate through fast and intense hand motions - they’re more or less on par with first-gen lighthouse systems. Hand tracking is also as precise, perhaps moreso, than it was on the Quest 2, with only the occasional missed curling of a finger. -Performance The updated Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 is immensely more powerful than the Quest 2’s first-generation chip. Games that would suffer from significant framerate drops on the Quest 2 (namely, a social VR application popular for its user-created content) perform drastically better on the Quest 3, and many Quest games are being updated or developed to take advantage of the higher fidelity graphics that the new chip can produce at high framerates. The jump in visual clarity is somewhat profound. Using a couple PC VR games also made available on the Quest as a point of comparison, I was surprised by the level of detail and consistent performance on the Quest 3 that felt similar to using PC VR on a midrange to high-end gaming desktop from 5 or 6 years ago. The Quest 3 has come far enough that it could start encroaching on PC VR in more than just the simpler games and apps. Cross-platform ports of some bigger releases feel viable with little sacrifice in visual detail or performance. That is to say, at least with this device, standalone VR may finally be up to snuff. -Audio Quality Unfortunately, little has changed in terms of audio quality from the Quest 2. The spatial audio is just adequate; perhaps a little clearer than the last device, but still lacking a lot of depth or any real bass notes. With the speakers located further ahead of your face than before, any centralized audio feels a bit further ahead of where you are in VR space, but after a moment or two I stopped noticing this effect as I got engrossed in games. Likewise, the microphone is just as mediocre as the previous headset; after using a high-end PC VR headset for a long time, I had several people ask if I had a cold or whether something was wrong with my audio setup, as the drop in quality was significant. Fortunately, the headphone jack on the right side of the Quest 3 allows you to connect the headset of your choice. There’s still no low-latency bluetooth option for wireless headphones, but you can connect and use a pair for applications where a small bit of audio latency is acceptable, such as watching movies or virtual chatting. -Comfort & Battery Life Whether using the included cloth strap or an Elite headstrap (sold separately), the Quest 3’s thinner build makes a drastic difference in long-term comfort. The center of mass of the headset moves about an inch closer to your face, significantly reducing the cantilever effect that limited my outings with the Quest 2 to about 45 minutes before needing to take a break. The updated facial interface is quite comfortable to boot, using a newer cloth material that’s easier on the skin. Although weighing more or less the same as the Quest 2, the ergonomic improvements let me just about run out the battery before I felt fatigued. Battery life has improved some over the Quest 2, though this will vary with how demanding a given application is. Using as close an approximation I could get between the two headsets (wireless PC VR streaming, moving rendering demands to a separate device), I went from just shy of 2 hours before receiving the low battery warning on the Quest 2, to 2 hours and 30 minutes on the Quest 3 using the same settings. Though it doesn’t seem dramatic, the extra half hour lands in my sweet spot for VR fatigue where I’d usually be finishing my session anyway. An incremental but significant improvement all the same. -Bottom Line If the jump from the Quest to the Quest 2 was a refinement, then the jump from Quest 2 to Quest 3 is a revelation. I’ve never been so impressed with a VR headset, and certainly not one that also pushes the viability of AR so far forward. In one day the Quest 3 became my headset of choice for PC VR, which is to say nothing of the thousands of apps and games that run natively, alongside new AR experiences I’m excited to see. Whether Meta kickstarted mainstream adoption of AR is yet to be seen, but with the Quest 3 the foundation is laid with a device that’s easily one of the best VR headsets available today as well.

Received the product before date estimated. This a gift for my son.

Great product, this is fun for whole family! Highly recommend

Meta 3 is a huge shift when compared to meta 2. Interface is mindblowing and the first time experience is breathtaking. Only thing which concerned me is there there very less free apps and games and those need to me improved faster. Sensors around the VR are smooth and can do better.

Loadings much faster than 1st quest. Hope next one on oled screen.

Awesome upgrade with the exception of headstrap comfort