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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Vicky Jessop

Meta Quest 3 preview: We played with the new mixed-reality headset

We asked (kind of), they delivered. Meta’s much-anticipated Meta Quest 3 headset is set to be arriving on shelves in just a few weeks, and anticipation about what the team have been cooking up has been buzzing on the internet for the past few months. With the Metaverse on the virtual rocks (or at least, not having taken off in the way Mark Zuckerberg hoped) and Apple announcing their Vision Pro headset earlier this year, there’s a lot to live up to: can they do it?

First things first: it’s clear that Meta are pinning their hopes on this going big. The handful of journalists who attended Meta’s preview event last week were told that this was the most powerful headset that the team had ever built, sporting double-graphics performance and a 30 per cent increase in display resolution over the Quest 2.

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