Standalone VR Headset
Data Suggests Most Expensive Quest 3 is More Popular Than Expected
Quest 3 just began shipping last week and headsets are rapidly arriving in the hands of eager buyers. While the 128GB model appears to be in strong supply, the more expensive 512GB model might be more popular than Meta...
Quest 3 Teardown Shows Just How Slim the Headset Really Is
Less than a week since launch, Quest 3 has already gotten the full iFixit teardown treatment, showing off just how slim (and seemingly difficult to repair) the headset really is.
iFixit's Shahram Mokhtari pried apart Quest 3, revealing the innards of Meta's new...
Quest 3 Review – A Great Headset Waiting to Reach Its Potential
Following Quest 2 almost three years to the day, Quest 3 is finally here. Meta continues its trend of building some of the best VR hardware out there, but it will be some time yet before the headset's potential...
Update to SteamVR Suggests Valve is Still Working on a Standalone Headset
Valve is a notorious black box when it comes to basically everything. A recent update to Steam client for VR though suggests the company is still working behind the scenes on what appears to be its long-awaited standalone VR...
Immersed Opens Pre-orders for Slim & Light ‘Visor’ VR Headset, Starting at $500
Immersed, the team behind the titular XR productivity and co-working app, announced Visor last month, a slim and light VR headset designed for work. Now the studio has opened "fully refundable" pre-orders for two distinct flavors of the device.
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Pimax Delays VR Headset Shell for Its Nintendo Switch-style Handheld Portal
Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-style handheld that can be used as a VR headset, is experiencing a bit of a road bump, as the company announced the VR portion of the device has been delayed due to a hardware...
Meta Quest 3 Revealed: Coming This Fall Starting at $499
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company's next XR headset today, Quest 3. The mixed reality headset is launching this fall for the starting price of $499.
Only a few hours before the big Quest Gaming Showcase scheduled for later...
Meta Quest Reportedly Had Over 6 Million Monthly Active Users Last October
A Wall Street Journal report maintains Meta's Quest platform had 6.37 million monthly active users as of October 2022.
The report doesn't include a breakdown of which headset is seeing the most engagement, however it's likely a majority of those users...
Meta is Planning a Cheaper VR Headset for Release in 2024, Pointing to Possible ‘Quest 3...
Meta is planning to ship a VR headset in 2024 which the company wants to make as accessible as possible to consumers.
According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s VP of VR, Mark Rabki, told thousands of employees in a memo that...
Tencent Reportedly in Talks with Meta to Bring Quest 2 to China
Chinese tech giant Tencent is reportedly shuttering its XR development team, ostensibly putting a hold on its home-grown VR ambitions. That may not mean Tencent is hanging up the XR towel for good though.
As reported by Chinese language publication 36Kr,...
Report: Apple’s MR Headset Said to Arrive Early 2023, AR Headset Sees Further Delays
Apple's long-awaited mixed reality headset is still deep under wraps, although recent reports have not only shed what appears to be new light on some of the features coming to the fruit company's first AR/VR headset, but also a...
Meta Sharpens the Axe for Quest 1: First-party Social Ends in March, Security Patches in 2024
It seems Meta is finally taking the original 2019 Quest behind the shed this year, as the company announced it's set to deprecate first-party social features on the device, which includes access to Parties and Meta Horizon Home. Meta also...
Hands-on: Vive XR Elite is Lightweight & Compact, But Shares Quest Pro’s Woes
At CES 2023 HTC revealed its new Vive XR Elite headset which is positioned as a Quest Pro competitor. In terms of features and hardware, the headset is largely a refinement of formfactor over anything else; and while it's...
HTC Unveils Vive XR Elite, a Quest Pro Competitor Priced at $1,100
HTC officially unveiled its next consumer-focused headset at CES 2023 today. Called Vive XR Elite, the standalone mixed reality device boasts a feature set that positions HTC to go toe-to-toe with Meta's Quest Pro, but at a notably cheaper...
Report: Apparent HTC Leak Reveals Slim & Modular VR Standalone
HTC has been teasing its next VR headset over the last few weeks, showing off bits of the device at a time which the company promises will be "something big… we mean small.” Now it appears the design and...



















