{"id":165441,"date":"2023-06-09T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-is-launching-a-500-headset-days-before-apple-is-set-to-unveil-its-3000-offering-as-the-battle-for-vr-heats-up"},"modified":"2023-06-09T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:22:28","slug":"meta-is-launching-a-500-headset-days-before-apple-is-set-to-unveil-its-3000-offering-as-the-battle-for-vr-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-is-launching-a-500-headset-days-before-apple-is-set-to-unveil-its-3000-offering-as-the-battle-for-vr-heats-up","title":{"rendered":"Meta is launching a $500 headset days before Apple is set to unveil its $3,000 offering as the battle for VR heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-is-launching-a-500-headset-days-before-apple-is-set-to-unveil-its-3000-offering-as-the-battle-for-vr-heats-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Meta Quest 3 will cost $500 and ship in the fall, the company said in <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/06\/meta-quest-3-coming-this-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">a blog post<\/a> Thursday. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, said it will continue to sell the Quest 2 model at a lower price, $300, to help \u201ceven more people access the magic of VR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta is girding for a fight with Apple in the still-nascent world of mixed reality headsets, which meld augmented and virtual reality. Apple plans to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2023-05-18\/apple-s-mixed-reality-headset-may-define-tim-cook-s-legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">its first entry to the market<\/a> on Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Bloomberg has reported. That device is expected to be more powerful than the Meta product but also far more expensive, with an anticipated price of roughly $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Meta currently dominates the market for VR headsets, which it sees as key to its vision of the metaverse \u2014 interlocking online worlds where people live, work and play. But it\u2019s struggled to build mainstream acceptance of the devices. It cut prices of its Quest Pro model earlier this year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-03-03\/meta-s-price-cuts-to-virtual-reality-headset-follow-weak-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">demand was lower than expected<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Meta Quest 3 will cost $500 and ship in the fall, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, said it will continue to sell the Quest 2 model at a lower price, $300, to help \u201ceven more people access the magic of VR.\u201d Meta is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}