Over 1 million folks have accomplished the Quest 3 combined actuality introduction expertise First Encounters.
First Encounters begins shortly after you arrange a Quest 3 and is not out there on earlier Meta headsets. It makes use of the 3D scene mesh Quest 3 can generate to have a craft crash by way of your ceiling and land on a desk or the ground, in addition to to allow you to shoot out components of your actual wall. You then need to shoot waves of invading creatures till a timer runs out. What number of you shoot determines your rating, and your rating is logged to Quest’s leaderboard system.
Software program developer Daven Bigelow has been diligently monitoring the leaderboard for First Encounters, as a result of within the Meta Quest smartphone app it exhibits what number of different “individuals” there are, ie. how many individuals have accomplished Quest 3’s introduction.
And there we go, Quest 3 has a 99.999% probability that 1M models are within the wild, the morning after Quest 2 lastly began going out of inventory worldwide pic.twitter.com/eI2UB2oK2d
— JustDaven (@JayHadHope) June 26, 2024
We wrote “not less than” on this headline as a result of technically, there is no obligation to finish First Encounters. You can refuse to scan your room mesh or you might give up and skip the expertise at any time. It is also unclear whether or not individuals who have their profile set to personal are included within the 1 million determine. If they don’t seem to be, Quest 3 gross sales are possible far in extra of 1 million.
Within the March 2023 Meta roadmap assembly leaked to The Verge Meta’s VP of VR Mark Rabkin informed workers the corporate had sold almost 20 million Quest headsets. Three months after that, one other Meta assembly was leaked to The Verge through which Mark Zuckerberg told staff “we’ve offered tens of thousands and thousands of Quests”. In July 2021 now-CTO Andrew Bosworth said Quest 2 had “outsold not simply its predecessor, however all of its predecessors mixed”, suggesting the overwhelming majority of the 20 million Quests offered by final summer season have been Quest 2.
So eight months after launch, Quest 3 has offered someplace north of 1 million models, whereas three years after launch Quest 2 had offered someplace round 20 million. However this slower tempo is not surprising.
Quest 2 launched at $100 cheaper than its predecessor, which was instantly taken off the market. In distinction, Quest 3 launched at $200 costlier and Quest 2 has continued to be offered at an even lower price. Since March, Quest 2 has been offered at $200 whereas Quest 3 stays at $500. Quest 2 has continued to outsell Quest 3 on Amazon, and VR builders have informed UploadVR nearly all of their new customers are nonetheless on Quest 2.
Meta Quest 3S: Specs, Details, Everything We Know So Far
Meta’s next headset is Quest 3S. Here’s everything we’ve heard about it so far, including how it likely compares to Quest 3 and Quest 2.
Meta appears to have a plan to cope with the affordability downside although. There’s been sturdy proof over the previous 16 months that it’s getting ready to launch a less expensive different to Quest 3 to instantly substitute Quest 2 in its lineup.
In March 2023 the leaked Meta roadmap mentioned this cheaper headset, and late final month the official Quest Store listed “Meta Quest 3S”, a reputation seen in an obvious leak three months in the past purporting to point out the headset’s design. To prime all of it off, earlier this month a headset with that design was spotted in the background of a video posted by Meta’s CTO.
If Quest 3S arrives on the roughly $300 worth it is anticipated to whereas sustaining the XR2 Gen 2 chipset and combined actuality capabilities, it’ll possible promote in a lot bigger quantity than Quest 3, rising the marketplace for combined actuality and giving developers extra energy to work with than Quest 2 ever might.