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I'm really excited for this product because it's called The Meta Quest 3s

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but despite the name it's actually more of a Quest 2 plus it's got the same

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Optical stack as the Quest 2 here but

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it's got the same chip upgraded chip upgraded software features some of them

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as The Meta 3 here and I have actually

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not tried the meta Quest 3 uh but I spent a lot of time with the Quest 2 so

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it's perfect for me because I can be a little bit ignorant of what I'm missing

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in the quest 3 I'm going to try that a little bit just to compare but um that's

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why I'm excited and that's why you should be excited too in case you have

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somehow been living under a rock for a number of years now the meta quest line

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our VR headsets by the company meta uh

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they're basically the only huge big

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player in VR uh anymore other than Apple

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now so anytime they release a new headset it's kind of a big deal this is

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the question 3s and despite me saying that it's more of a two plus it actually

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has one upgrade over the quest 3 and

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something that makes it a lot more attractive it's $ 299 which we haven't

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really had a quest headset for 299 since

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before meta upgraded upgraded the price

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big upgrade up to$ 3.99 from $299 for

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the Quest 2 that was disappointing and now we have a 299 option once more one

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bonus that you're going to get over the Quest 2 is that the quest 3s comes with

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the same controllers as the quest 3 it doesn't have that ring for sensing uh

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for tracking movement anymore making them a little bit more portable uh so

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that's nice to see so one obvious way that the quest 3s is different than the

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quest 3 but more similar to The Quest 2 is in its thickness it uses Fel lenses

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and the exact same Optical stack as the Quest 2 whereas the quest 3 will have

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those pancake lenses and a higher resolution uh the pancake lenses

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allowing it to be a little bit thinner and feeling less like it's extending out

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from your face but we'll see how it feels when I try it out an obvious

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upgrade that the quest 3s actually has over the three and the two is the

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addition of two infrared sensors on the front which apparently increases the

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ability to track hands and stuff in a lower lit environment I'm excited to try

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that out on the left side we have the USBC port for charging and data or

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whatever you're going to use it for power button and what you might think at

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first is a head Jack if you're looking far away but no that's just another

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tracking camera there's no headphone jack they took out the headphone jack

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compared to the Quest 2 why on the right side another tracking camera and volume

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rocker and this is a new edition as well compared to both the two and the three

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it's a button for pass through instead of having to double tap while you're in

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VR mode to see the outside world now it's just a simple button you can hit

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with your thumb so we'll see how easier that is though for real the quest 3s

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does inherit from the quest 3 this easily adjust adjustable strap you can

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just kind of pull it closed and open it again it's so easy you can get it open

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there to accommodate a ponytail out the back or the cord coming out of your head

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from The Matrix some people are in The Matrix and use VR at the same time I

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don't I won't judge now this insert is telling me that I can get prescription

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lens inserts for The Meta 3s but thankfully like the Quest 2 the quest 3s

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accommodates people with glasses thank you for thinking of me because they this

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glasses spacer in the box that is attached to the power adapter and the

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USBC cord oh there we go do the other

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headsets have this circular adapter this is cute and that supports 18 W charging

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so the quest 3s like the Quest 2 has a

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three-step ipd adjustment it does not have the quest 3's uh dial that like

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kind of has a lot of gradual steps in between it's just got three steps just

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like the two and I forget which one I

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use cuz it's been a while I'll have to do a trial and error there so there's

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this paperwork here with some quick start guide and that's it for what's in

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the box let's get this out of here I want to enter the

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the description

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below whoa the reason I reacted there is

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because oh holy crap okay and this is

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why it was good it was smart Jake to get me to do this video because coming from

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The Quest 2 the first thing you see when you turn it on is the color pass through

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and this looks way better than the Quest

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2 it's crazy as I was saying now you can

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see now you can see the color pass through uh on the Quest 2 it's not only

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grayscale but it's a lot lower resolution I can actually read text

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on monitors over

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here it's circuit it's

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amazing one of the other upgrades that the 3s has is the ability like the uh

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meta Quest 3 to map out your 3D space

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using the sensors I think that's what it's doing right now I'm not going to

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refine it I'm going to trust the AI adjust boundary if needed honestly

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Quest 3s honestly it's pretty good you did pretty

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good so one of the things I like to do in VR is to experience kind of the top

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end of what's capable on the current Hardware that I'm using right now this

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thing has the Snapdragon xr2 Gen 2 the

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same processor as the quest 3 uh

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compared to the Quest 2 which just has the xr2 Gen 1 so this is upgraded and

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we're going to try the new Batman Arkham

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Shadows game which is only available on the quest three and and 3s so if you're

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upgrading from The Quest 2 to the 3s that's one of the things you're going to

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get is some experiences that are not going to be available on the Quest 2 which will be eventually discontinued

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okay I want to be Batman let's do this more so than when the original Batman

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Arkham Asylum came out I feel this feels

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like you're

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Batman there it is look grapple

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oh those are directional markers

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okay this is so funny it is very much like the uh the the Arkham games for for

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not having used any VR headsets since the Quest 2 this doesn't really seem

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like a generational Improvement to me uh

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maybe with a higher resolution on the quest 3 it would look better but it is

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the same chip so I don't know we'll have to see now as I've said where the quest

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3s really shines in comparison to The Quest 2 is the color pass through and

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the augmented augmented reality experience

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so we're going to do a pass through game this is something that the Quest 2 just

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could not do I mean I've mapped my 3D space and there's like a window into the

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synth Rider's World in like the whole

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there's like a hole in reality I saw this demoed when they were talking about

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this feature at first and uh I thought it looked cool and in fact it does

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playing a VR game while seeing people in

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the real world over there is kind of cool it's definitely makes the

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experience a lot more social than it was

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I think I like this game better than beat saber for one I probably look way cooler

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than lonus ever does doing it right tell

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me do I look cooler than lonus right now

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so since the quest 3s has upgraded hand tracking might as well jump into hand

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physics lab in terms of the hand tracking in this thing it's very

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impressive I'm impressed a lot more than I was with the Quest 2 with like the

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intuitiveness with which I'm using a lot of stuff it's tracking my hands very

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well I haven't seen a lot of like dropouts or choppiness with the hands

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like I am uh you know I haven't tried the quest 3 yet I've tried the quest two

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but as a jump from The Quest 2 this is very impressive I feel like I'm here and

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I feel like I have little skeltal Wiggly bones for real okay this

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is my first time playing the quest 3 not

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the 3s that I just had on my face and I

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can I can immediately notice I feel like I can immediately

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notice a higher resolution in the like UI elements and stuff the color the pass

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through actually looks very very similar in terms of the readability of text and

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stuff there's not much difference between this and the 3s so that's cool

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to see you're definitely getting that upgrade handed down okay so is this

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faster oh yeah so the scanning process

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is like noticeably a bit faster than the 3s on the 3 in-game assets the beat saer

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text up there is noticeably sharper in

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addition with the pancake lenses we're using pancake lenses instead of frenel

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lenses which have these concentric rings on the lens and it kind of distorts

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light as it comes outward you have kind of a sweet spot in the middle and then

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things that get farther away from The Sweet Spot get kind of distorted there's

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like light flaring and stuff you know okay so like for beat

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saber I don't know how much of a difference something like this is going

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to make so coming in from the three to the 3s uh you know like I said there is

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a slightly lower fov and resolution but

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in terms of the controller tracking in terms of what it feels like to play a

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game and look around still feels great

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uh so it's great to see that is giving us an affordable option so comparing the

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quest 3 to the 3s has kind of confirmed

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my you know my take that I gave in the beginning of the video which is that the

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comparison of the 3S to the three is the

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somewhat less important one than comparing it to the Quest 2 it's a clear

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upgrade uh from The Quest 2 not in terms

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of resolution or in like the ipd

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adjustment a couple of those things but in other ways it's a clear adjustment

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better hand tracking the pass through button the processor running the whole

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thing the Snapdragon xr2 Gen 2 but that

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invites the question should you upgrade to the 3s if you have a Quest 2 for me

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as a somewhat longtime Quest 2 user I don't know if I would consider upgrading

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just to go to the 3s if I was going to

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want to move on from my Quest 2 I think I'd want a kind of a bigger jump and I'd

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be considering the quest 3 at this point but if you're new new to the VR game and

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you do want some of those more advanced features you're not going to just be

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using a headset just for like exercise and you know the kind of like you can

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get away with having lower resolution if you want some of those higher Fidelity

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experiences but you're not ready to go to the top end getting a 128 gig 3s for

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$299 a pretty good deal but I'll make you a good deal if you're looking for

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something else to watch go check out this video where I talked to an AI

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powered stuff stuffed animal meant for

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children it yeah exactly