Call it a sign of the times. Meta has become the latest big tech company to announce imminent price hikes for some of its flagship products, in the form of new global pricing for the Quest 3S and Quest 3 headsets, making it harder for people to get into VR at a time when the sector is flagging in a big way.
The cause of the price hikes will surprise absolutely nobody, either. Meta cites the rising cost of manufacturing thanks to huge price spikes in memory chips, although it leaves out the bit where it explains that the AI boom is the single biggest root cause of those price spikes.
