{"id":94869,"date":"2023-08-26T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/26\/the-leaked-quest-3-headset-video-teases-metas-vr-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:25:03","slug":"the-leaked-quest-3-headset-video-teases-metas-vr-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/26\/the-leaked-quest-3-headset-video-teases-metas-vr-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leaked Quest 3 Headset Video Teases Meta\u2019s VR Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s the unboxing<\/span> video heard around the metaverse. There\u2019s a fresh leak of Meta\u2019s upcoming mixed reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro 3. A video posted to X<\/a>, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, by user @ZGFTECH shows a pair of hands pulling the black and white headset and controllers out of a cardboard box and wiggling them around. The headset and the controllers appear to be more compact than previous versions.<\/p>\n

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The device looks almost exactly like it does in the promotional materials Meta released in June, shortly before Apple sucked up all the oxygen in the virtual room with its long-awaited Vision Pro mixed-reality headset.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s metaverse machinations haven\u2019t lived up to the company\u2019s expectations of building a fully realized virtual world, mostly because barely anyone is spending much time in there. But that has not deterred the company from its VR vision. The company sank $21 billion into its Reality Labs division in a year and a half, so its hopes for the Quest 3 to perform well have got to be high. The company says the price for the Quest 3 will start at $500, which is nearly twice as expensive as the Meta Quest 2, but a long way from the Apple Vision Pro\u2019s eyeball-melting $3,500 price tag.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s Connect event for developers takes place on September 27 and 28, and given how polished the Quest 3 looks to be in this leaked video, there\u2019s a good chance the company will give us more details about the headset and announce a firm release date for the device during the event\u2019s keynote address.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some other news about gadgets.<\/p>\n

Apple Gets Right About Repair<\/p>\n

Apple wants you to know that it has changed\u2014it really cares about repairability now, it swears. In a letter to California State Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, Apple expressed support for the senator\u2019s right-to-repair bill that is currently going through the state legislature.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s about-face comes after years of lobbying and pushing back against legislative attempts to secure people\u2019s rights to repair their own devices. It\u2019s such a big deal in the repairability world that the right to repair advocacy group iFixit likened the news to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. (Semi-related, Apple will soon have to pay out settlement money after getting in trouble for throttling slower iPhones.)<\/p>\n

Apple has long been fiercely defensive of its products, but recently it has ceded some ground on its position. Apple introduced its own self-repair program in 2021, though the program kicked off with some problems as the repair kits were expensive and bulky. Apple did point out some caveats for its support in its letter to State Senator Eggman, which include not allowing third-party repair services to disable device security features, and that those repair services disclose when they don\u2019t use official Apple parts.<\/p>\n

Sony Couch Portal<\/p>\n

Sony announced a new portable PlayStation product this week. It\u2019s called the PlayStation Portal and it has some \u2026 quirks.<\/p>\n

You might see the device and think, That just looks like a PlayStation controller with a phone stuck in the middle of it<\/em>. But that\u2019s because it is pretty much just a PlayStation controller with a phone stuck in the middle of it\u2014albeit a phone that can\u2019t make calls or surf the internet. No, the Portal is only capable of streaming games from your existing PlayStation console. Unlike other portable devices in the PlayStation lineup like the PSP and the PS Vita, the Portal is not a standalone device and will require a constant Wi-Fi connection to a console. It won\u2019t even be able to stream games from PlayStation\u2019s Plus cloud streaming service; you have to have the game on your own system for it to work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n