Customer Ratings & Reviews

Far from being 4k. The graphics are blurry 480 at best.

Made my head hurt worked well but wasn’t the one for me

This is my second experience with VR. My first was the Samsung one that I got with my S8+ phone many years ago. It wasn't anything close to the Meta Quest 3. You snapped your phone into the headset to have VR. This being a complete standalone VR headset is miles ahead. First, after the initial setup, I set my home as the spaceship. Then I played the game from there. It had me map the room that I was in, which was simply walking around and looking around the room so that it could see the obstacles. I was in my living room, so the couch, coffee table, Christmas tree, end tables and TV were all mapped out. Then the game began. A little space ship broke through the ceiling. Pieces of the ceiling that were broken then landed on the floor, and some landed and stayed on the ceiling fan. Little fuzzy balls started cracking the walls and coming into the living room. You then shoot them to collect them. By the time I was finished, most of my walls were gone, revealing a completely different world behind it. It comes with Batman: Arkham Shadow (not my normal type of game) so I decided to try it. I've got to say, it's amazing. Although I typically play FPS (Battlefield) and racing games, I was drawn into the world. Actually being in it changes everything. Being able to turn your head to look around versus pushing a joystick was great. It's a lot more realistic to how things work in the real world. To climb a ladder, you reach up and grab a rung and pull up, then put your next hand on the next rung and climb. I will say that some motions can be tricky. For example, I play sitting down. Your Batarang is on your belt, so you're supposed to reach down to your waist to grab it. While sitting down, reaching down to your waist doesn't move your arm far enough for the game to know that your hands are at waist level. I spent 5 minutes just trying to grab it before finally giving up. If I stood up, it was no problem to grab it. That takes you out of the experience quickly. The Meta Horizon Worlds are interesting. You can play mini games, watch concerts, and explore a lot of other things to do. I went to VR experiences and watched people climbing Everest. It was like you were right there with them. Looking around from the top of the world was amazing. A couple of downsides for me were the experience with the Batman game not knowing that I was reaching for my belt, and occasionally the screen is off-center. The only thing I can come up with is if you are not looking straight ahead when that screen comes up, it will be off-center. You then have to go into the Quest menu and reset the center point. There are features to help avoid motion sickness, which can easily occur with VR. I did notice on a longer play session that I did get a little nauseated, so I just stopped for the night. That feeling did last for about 30 minutes afterwards. There is so much to see and do. From playing games, to watching TV and movies, I've only begun to scratch the surface, but my time with it so far has been amazing!

The Meta Quest 3 is an incredible VR headset. Setup was fast, tracking is very accurate, and the visuals are noticeably sharper than previous generations. Being fully wireless makes a huge difference, and performance is smooth even in more demanding games. It’s comfortable to use and offers a great mix of gaming, apps, and media. Highly recommended for both new and experienced VR users.

This is not a good process . Roadie didn’t deliver my item and now I don’t have an item for Christmas for my grandson. This is not fair . Also I am having to pay for this item becasue no one is doing anything to fix this .

I had a problem 18 days after purchase and no help from Best Buy.

Poor visual quality and not worth the money. VR is still too far from a fully immersive experience.

This item works some time and not othere idk what ia wrong

Don’t like it at all, have to buy a subscription for the glass from Facebook not cool!

The Meta Quest 3 is much different than the first round of VR headsets. For example my first VR headset needed to be plugged in to a capable gaming computer in order to function. The stand alone headsets were not any good. The Quest 3 is a very different story, especially when it comes to playing games on it as a stand alone device. The Quest 3 has a very nice display with a field of view of 110 degree, which delivers a phenomenally immersive experience. I have gamed extensively on an ultrawide curved gaming monitor and this is by far more immersive. The design of the Meta 3 is solid and comfortable with fairly even weight distribution. One item that I was not used to is the use of mixed reality where you can interact with the real world while in VR. This is a game changer for me since one of the common issues I found was running into things or hitting things as I was playing games. I really nice feature is the fact that you don’t need to use the controllers to utilize the Quest 3. There are a specific set of hand gestures to at let you manipulate the Quest 3 controls which is amazing. The one thing is I wish the Meta Quest 3 had better battery life or at least a replaceable/swappable battery.

I the gadget is good but their promise to give you Asgard 2 is not true so I’m returning my quest 3 to the store!

This was a present I didn’t get to enjoy. But I definitely was looking forward to playing it.

A control was damaged, after 7 days of use, poor quality

Do not buy from Best Buy, worst experience ever and beyond frustrated with Best Buy

Meta advertised chromecast support and then removed it in a software update after the holidays.

Don’t do the updates unless you have a couple of hours to reconfigure the system.

No customer service. Bought 3 headsets and the kids can't play the same game together.

Irritating to eyes. Not feel comfortable after wearing it.

Didn’t receive item or my refund yet Didn’t receive item or my refund yet

The Meta Quest 3. Is it worth upgrading to it from the Quest 2? Well I've owned the Quest 2 for a couple of years now and I can say that, for me, the upgrade is worth it. If you don't own a VR or haven't owned one before, you may choose to go with the Quest 2 since you can get it for a really good price now. Not a bad idea to make sure you will enjoy the experience before spending more on the Quest 3, especially if you are (or even if you aren't) prone to motion sickness. I'm not typically bothered by it, but something about being in VR and moving around when you are physically standing still does something to your mind that feels wrong. Maybe it's because I'm getting older because my 11 year old doesn't seem to have any issues with it. However there are plenty of enjoyable ways to experience and use VR that don't cause any issues for me. Watching movies, for example, is one thing that I feel the Quest 3 is much better for than the 2. With the increased resolution and the "pancake" style lenses, it's much closer to looking like it does in a theater. It's still not to the point of replacing your 4K Micro Mini QLED OLED UHD whatever whatever TV, but it's getting a lot closer. And as with anything else, some apps, games and content will look better than others. You will still see pixels in some things and others you probably won't. And the new lens fix a big problem I had with the Quest 2,which was the edges of the "screen" being blurry. You may still notice it a little bit at the far extremes of the image edges but it's way better than before. Being able to watch Netflix, Disney+, or any service you can access via a web browser without disturbing others or them having to watch too is fantastic. And I highly recommend checking out the Xstadium app. This is a really great concept where you can watch live sports courtside, from the 50 yard line or the endzone (on the field), and other locations inside of the stadium or arena. Another big plus with the Quest 3 is the increased storage. I admit my 11 year old uses the Quest 2 way more than I do and has filled it up to the point he has to uninstall games to add new ones. If you're a console gamer the 512gb storage may not seem like much, but the apps and games for this are nowhere near the 100gb+ size of some of the console games (at least not for the time being). But they will add up as you find more and more apps and games you want to try out, and that library is steadily increasing. Another big plus for the Quest 3 is the full color passthrough mode, or "mixed reality". There's passthrough on the Quest 2 (where you can see what's going on around you outside of the headset), but honestly it's pretty useless other allowing you to draw your boundaries. I liken it to old fuzzy black and white TV. You can can't see a lot of detail, and forget about checking your watch or phone. While the clarity of the Quest 3's full color passthrough isn't like looking through your phone camera or anything, it's leaps and bounds better than before, and you can actually use your phone and reply to messages, etc. And it's pretty cool to have a web browser, for example floating in front of you while you can still watch the kids or whatever else you might be doing. And I don't know how it does this, but looking at a light, like a lamp maybe and moving the browser or whatever other window in front of the light, completely blocks it as if you put a solid object in front of it. So it's not that things you see in VR while in passthrough mode are translucent, they are overlaid onto your real view of the world. There are also some pretty cool games and apps that take advantage of this better, full color passthrough mode, which to me makes this that much more useful, whether it's an app or game or even a virtual desktop. Another change is that the controllers no longer have the big halo at the end of them, make them a little lighter and more useful in some situations, as well as the hand tracking being improved. You won't be spinning, flicking, and moving things around like your Tony Stark, but it is nice to be able to use the device without having to have a controller in your hand. However not all apps and games work with hand tracking. It's just not quite there yet. And it does work better when you have plenty of light as opposed to low light. But here's the thing, the light doesn't have to be visible. It can be infrared light. So if you want to lay in bed and use the thing while someone is sleeping, just get an infrared light and "light" up the room. While the original versions of the Quest were not appealing to me yet, and though the Quest 2 was, but I found it underwhelming in areas enough that I ended up not using it much, I feel like the Quest 3 is now a usable, enjoyable device for me. It's not perfect, but it's a big step in the right direction, and what we'll be able to do in the next few iterations of these is going to be pretty crazy and fun. So I would recommend getting one of these and unless your expectations are not realistic, there are plenty of ways to enjoy this thing.