The Meta Quest 3 is coming this fall for $500.
The Meta Quest 3 is coming this fall for $500.
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Mark Zuckerberg unveils $500 Meta Quest 3 launching this fall

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the first official details of the Meta Quest 3, a new virtual reality headset for consumers that arrives this fall for $500.

The headset has a big technical improvement over the prior generation with high-resolution color mixed reality, as the Meta Quest 2 introduced in 2020 had black-and-white passthrough. The Meta Quest Pro, introduced at $1,500 (later lowered to $1,000) last fall also has color passthrough.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.