The two devices could be contrastingly different, but Meta wants to crash Apple's party.
As tech geeks and Apple fans, wait with bated breath for the Worldwide Developers Conference , scheduled for next week, Meta is trying to get ahead in the news cycle with its Quest 3 headset.With Apple looking set to jump into the AR/ VR segment, Meta needs to up its game and the Quest 3 is an obvious attempt to do get this done. For starters, the device is 40 percent thinner than its predecessor while the graphic performance has been doubled.
Meta is moving away from being just a VR headset company by adding three cameras on the front and giving users a connection to the real world around them. Smartly, it will also leverage these cameras to lets users play virtual games on a tabletop, increasing the ways the headset can be used. The company has added a depth sensor to this headset and dropped the halos around the controllers to make them feel more natural. The device is priced at $499 and Meta is dropping the prices of its other headsets to stir up demand, afterMeta is perhaps hopeful that the rumored price of $3,000 for Apple's upcoming headset will serve as a deterrent for many buyers, who will pick its pocket-friendly offering instead.
However, knowing Apple's track record of entering the market with the right offering at the right time, makes one wonder if Meta is missing a trick by trying to keep its device light on the pockets. Reports suggest that Apple couldThe WWDC will perhaps give the world the first glimpse of Apple's vision for mixed-reality headsets and it would not be a surprise if others are found falling severely short of what Apple achieves.
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