The Meta Quest 3 costs $500 and debuts on October 10.
The Meta Quest 3 costs $500 and debuts on October 10.
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Meta Quest 3 hands-on review — A big bet on mixed reality

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 10 min

We’re just a day away from the launch of the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset, upon which many metaverse dreams depend. Here’s our hands-on review.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in particular is betting that this $500 VR headset will attract VR and gaming enthusiasts with its mixed reality technology, which lets you see the outside world through cameras while you’re playing inside the world of the VR headset.

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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.