Data Suggests Most Expensive Quest 3 is More Popular Than Expected
Quest 3 just began shipping last week and headsets are rapidly arriving in the hands of eager buyers. While the 128GB model appears to be in strong supply, the more…
Quest 3 Teardown Shows Just How Slim the Headset Really Is
Less than a week since launch, Quest 3 has already gotten the full iFixit teardown treatment, showing off just how slim (and seemingly difficult to repair) the headset really is. iFixit’s Shahram…
Quest 3 Review – A Great Headset Waiting to Reach Its Potential
Following Quest 2 almost three years to the day, Quest 3 is finally here. Meta continues its trend of building some of the best VR hardware out there, but it…
Update to SteamVR Suggests Valve is Still Working on a Standalone Headset
Valve is a notorious black box when it comes to basically everything. A recent update to Steam client for VR though suggests the company is still working behind the scenes…
Immersed Opens Pre-orders for Slim & Light ‘Visor’ VR Headset, Starting at $500
Immersed, the team behind the titular XR productivity and co-working app, announced Visor last month, a slim and light VR headset designed for work. Now the studio has opened “fully…
Pimax Says Its Nintendo Switch-style VR Hybrid is Shipping to Backers This Month
Pimax announced that Portal, its hybrid VR headset based on a Nintendo Switch-style console, is almost ready for launch, as the company prepares to ship to all Kickstarter backers in…
Meta Quest Reportedly Had Over 6 Million Monthly Active Users Last October
A Wall Street Journal report maintains Meta’s Quest platform had 6.37 million monthly active users as of October 2022. The report doesn’t include a breakdown of which headset is seeing the…
Meta is Planning a Cheaper VR Headset for Release in 2024, Pointing to Possible ‘Quest 3 Lite’
Meta is planning to ship a VR headset in 2024 which the company wants to make as accessible as possible to consumers. According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s VP of…
Tencent Reportedly in Talks with Meta to Bring Quest 2 to China
Chinese tech giant Tencent is reportedly shuttering its XR development team, ostensibly putting a hold on its home-grown VR ambitions. That may not mean Tencent is hanging up the XR…
Meta Sharpens the Axe for Quest 1: First-party Social Ends in March, Security Patches in 2024
It seems Meta is finally taking the original 2019 Quest behind the shed this year, as the company announced it’s set to deprecate first-party social features on the device, which…
Hands-on: Vive XR Elite is Lightweight & Compact, But Shares Quest Pro’s Woes
At CES 2023 HTC revealed its new Vive XR Elite headset which is positioned as a Quest Pro competitor. In terms of features and hardware, the headset is largely a…
HTC Unveils Vive XR Elite, a Quest Pro Competitor Priced at $1,100
HTC officially unveiled its next consumer-focused headset at CES 2023 today. Called Vive XR Elite, the standalone mixed reality device boasts a feature set that positions HTC to go toe-to-toe…