I'm really excited for this product because it's called The Meta Quest 3s
but despite the name it's actually more of a Quest 2 plus it's got the same
Optical stack as the Quest 2 here but
it's got the same chip upgraded chip upgraded software features some of them
as The Meta 3 here and I have actually
not tried the meta Quest 3 uh but I spent a lot of time with the Quest 2 so
it's perfect for me because I can be a little bit ignorant of what I'm missing
in the quest 3 I'm going to try that a little bit just to compare but um that's
why I'm excited and that's why you should be excited too in case you have
somehow been living under a rock for a number of years now the meta quest line
our VR headsets by the company meta uh
they're basically the only huge big
player in VR uh anymore other than Apple
now so anytime they release a new headset it's kind of a big deal this is
the question 3s and despite me saying that it's more of a two plus it actually
has one upgrade over the quest 3 and
something that makes it a lot more attractive it's $ 299 which we haven't
really had a quest headset for 299 since
before meta upgraded upgraded the price
big upgrade up to$ 3.99 from $299 for
the Quest 2 that was disappointing and now we have a 299 option once more one
bonus that you're going to get over the Quest 2 is that the quest 3s comes with
the same controllers as the quest 3 it doesn't have that ring for sensing uh
for tracking movement anymore making them a little bit more portable uh so
that's nice to see so one obvious way that the quest 3s is different than the
quest 3 but more similar to The Quest 2 is in its thickness it uses Fel lenses
and the exact same Optical stack as the Quest 2 whereas the quest 3 will have
those pancake lenses and a higher resolution uh the pancake lenses
allowing it to be a little bit thinner and feeling less like it's extending out
from your face but we'll see how it feels when I try it out an obvious
upgrade that the quest 3s actually has over the three and the two is the
addition of two infrared sensors on the front which apparently increases the
ability to track hands and stuff in a lower lit environment I'm excited to try
that out on the left side we have the USBC port for charging and data or
whatever you're going to use it for power button and what you might think at
first is a head Jack if you're looking far away but no that's just another
tracking camera there's no headphone jack they took out the headphone jack
compared to the Quest 2 why on the right side another tracking camera and volume
rocker and this is a new edition as well compared to both the two and the three
it's a button for pass through instead of having to double tap while you're in
VR mode to see the outside world now it's just a simple button you can hit
with your thumb so we'll see how easier that is though for real the quest 3s
does inherit from the quest 3 this easily adjust adjustable strap you can
just kind of pull it closed and open it again it's so easy you can get it open
there to accommodate a ponytail out the back or the cord coming out of your head
from The Matrix some people are in The Matrix and use VR at the same time I
don't I won't judge now this insert is telling me that I can get prescription
lens inserts for The Meta 3s but thankfully like the Quest 2 the quest 3s
accommodates people with glasses thank you for thinking of me because they this
glasses spacer in the box that is attached to the power adapter and the
USBC cord oh there we go do the other
headsets have this circular adapter this is cute and that supports 18 W charging
so the quest 3s like the Quest 2 has a
three-step ipd adjustment it does not have the quest 3's uh dial that like
kind of has a lot of gradual steps in between it's just got three steps just
like the two and I forget which one I
use cuz it's been a while I'll have to do a trial and error there so there's
this paperwork here with some quick start guide and that's it for what's in
the box let's get this out of here I want to enter the
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below whoa the reason I reacted there is
because oh holy crap okay and this is
why it was good it was smart Jake to get me to do this video because coming from
The Quest 2 the first thing you see when you turn it on is the color pass through
and this looks way better than the Quest
2 it's crazy as I was saying now you can
see now you can see the color pass through uh on the Quest 2 it's not only
grayscale but it's a lot lower resolution I can actually read text
on monitors over
here it's circuit it's
amazing one of the other upgrades that the 3s has is the ability like the uh
meta Quest 3 to map out your 3D space
using the sensors I think that's what it's doing right now I'm not going to
refine it I'm going to trust the AI adjust boundary if needed honestly
Quest 3s honestly it's pretty good you did pretty
good so one of the things I like to do in VR is to experience kind of the top
end of what's capable on the current Hardware that I'm using right now this
thing has the Snapdragon xr2 Gen 2 the
same processor as the quest 3 uh
compared to the Quest 2 which just has the xr2 Gen 1 so this is upgraded and
we're going to try the new Batman Arkham
Shadows game which is only available on the quest three and and 3s so if you're
upgrading from The Quest 2 to the 3s that's one of the things you're going to
get is some experiences that are not going to be available on the Quest 2 which will be eventually discontinued
okay I want to be Batman let's do this more so than when the original Batman
Arkham Asylum came out I feel this feels
like you're
Batman there it is look grapple
oh those are directional markers
okay this is so funny it is very much like the uh the the Arkham games for for
not having used any VR headsets since the Quest 2 this doesn't really seem
like a generational Improvement to me uh
maybe with a higher resolution on the quest 3 it would look better but it is
the same chip so I don't know we'll have to see now as I've said where the quest
3s really shines in comparison to The Quest 2 is the color pass through and
the augmented augmented reality experience
so we're going to do a pass through game this is something that the Quest 2 just
could not do I mean I've mapped my 3D space and there's like a window into the
synth Rider's World in like the whole
there's like a hole in reality I saw this demoed when they were talking about
this feature at first and uh I thought it looked cool and in fact it does
playing a VR game while seeing people in
the real world over there is kind of cool it's definitely makes the
experience a lot more social than it was
I think I like this game better than beat saber for one I probably look way cooler
than lonus ever does doing it right tell
me do I look cooler than lonus right now
so since the quest 3s has upgraded hand tracking might as well jump into hand
physics lab in terms of the hand tracking in this thing it's very
impressive I'm impressed a lot more than I was with the Quest 2 with like the
intuitiveness with which I'm using a lot of stuff it's tracking my hands very
well I haven't seen a lot of like dropouts or choppiness with the hands
like I am uh you know I haven't tried the quest 3 yet I've tried the quest two
but as a jump from The Quest 2 this is very impressive I feel like I'm here and
I feel like I have little skeltal Wiggly bones for real okay this
is my first time playing the quest 3 not
the 3s that I just had on my face and I
can I can immediately notice I feel like I can immediately
notice a higher resolution in the like UI elements and stuff the color the pass
through actually looks very very similar in terms of the readability of text and
stuff there's not much difference between this and the 3s so that's cool
to see you're definitely getting that upgrade handed down okay so is this
faster oh yeah so the scanning process
is like noticeably a bit faster than the 3s on the 3 in-game assets the beat saer
text up there is noticeably sharper in
addition with the pancake lenses we're using pancake lenses instead of frenel
lenses which have these concentric rings on the lens and it kind of distorts
light as it comes outward you have kind of a sweet spot in the middle and then
things that get farther away from The Sweet Spot get kind of distorted there's
like light flaring and stuff you know okay so like for beat
saber I don't know how much of a difference something like this is going
to make so coming in from the three to the 3s uh you know like I said there is
a slightly lower fov and resolution but
in terms of the controller tracking in terms of what it feels like to play a
game and look around still feels great
uh so it's great to see that is giving us an affordable option so comparing the
quest 3 to the 3s has kind of confirmed
my you know my take that I gave in the beginning of the video which is that the
comparison of the 3S to the three is the
somewhat less important one than comparing it to the Quest 2 it's a clear
upgrade uh from The Quest 2 not in terms
of resolution or in like the ipd
adjustment a couple of those things but in other ways it's a clear adjustment
better hand tracking the pass through button the processor running the whole
thing the Snapdragon xr2 Gen 2 but that
invites the question should you upgrade to the 3s if you have a Quest 2 for me
as a somewhat longtime Quest 2 user I don't know if I would consider upgrading
just to go to the 3s if I was going to
want to move on from my Quest 2 I think I'd want a kind of a bigger jump and I'd
be considering the quest 3 at this point but if you're new new to the VR game and
you do want some of those more advanced features you're not going to just be
using a headset just for like exercise and you know the kind of like you can
get away with having lower resolution if you want some of those higher Fidelity
experiences but you're not ready to go to the top end getting a 128 gig 3s for
$299 a pretty good deal but I'll make you a good deal if you're looking for
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