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Meta increases the price of Meta Quest 2 VR headsets by $100

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Just a day ahead of its second-quarter earnings report, Meta said it would increase the price of its Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headsets by $100 each.

The price increase will bring the company’s revenues in better line with its costs for making the headsets, and that has become important as Meta tumbles into the recession with a core advertising business that has been weakened by Apple’s privacy push. The price increase is effective on August 1.

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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.