Meta is cutting the price of the Quest 2 again and I’m feeling ripped off

I got pretty excited when Meta unveiled its Quest 3 this week, and then immediately got mad when it mentioned a couple of things about the Quest 2.

Earlier today, Meta officially announced the Quest 3. The new headset features a new design, color pass-through mixed reality, and some big performance upgrades. Coming in at a starting price of $499, the company says it will be released this fall. Of course, Meta announced the new headset today in order to build hype before Apple reveals its own mixed-reality headset next week at WWDC.

In addition to giving us a first look at the Quest 3, the company also announced some changes for the Quest 2, its current generation consumer-focused headset. The first (and here's where I got pissed off) is that it will be once again dropping the price of the 128GB model down to $299. As someone who just bought the Quest 2 a few months ago after they raised the price to $399, I'm not too happy with Mark Zuckerberg right now. Why the heck are VR headset prices fluctuating like Tesla cars right now?!

As if to throw a bone to all of us who paid the higher price, the company thankfully announced that they are releasing a software update for both the Quest 2 and Quest Pro that will result in a pretty substantial performance boost.

But that’s not all! In an upcoming software update, we’re updating the Quest 2 and Quest Pro GPU and CPU. Quest 2 and Pro will see an up-to 26% CPU performance increase with an up-to 19% GPU speed increase for Quest 2 and 11% for Quest Pro. As developers take advantage of these changes, you can expect smoother gameplay, a more responsive UI, and richer content on both headsets. And we’re enabling Dynamic Resolution Scaling for both Quest 2 and Quest Pro, so games and apps can take advantage of increased pixel density without dropping frames.

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Of course, all of these changes are being announced since Apple is set to reveal its own mixed-reality headset next week at WWDC. The headset, which is expected to cost a whopping $3,000, is expected to showcase a future of VR and AR that has not yet been technically achieved.

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