I am a Quest-hole Now – Meta Quest 3 Review



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Facebook, now known as Meta, made a big splash after purchasing Oculus by releasing the Quest 2, the single most successful VR product to date. Outselling the likes of Playstation VR, HTC Vive and Valve Index. And with the AR boom on the horizon, or at least, so Meta hopes, the Meta Quest 3 has come into make those Mixed Reality dreams a, uhh… Reality. But is it any good? Well, let’s just say, the Meta Quest 3 has made us more excited about the Apple Vision Pro.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo – Supernova
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:35 First Impressions and Build
3:20 Display
4:28 Qualcomm XR2 Chipset
5:19 Battery
6:02 Controllers
7:00 Hand Tracking and AR
8:38 Augmented Reality Flaws
9:21 PC VR
10:14 Audio
10:58 Comfort
11:41 Should You Buy?
14:22 Outro

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43 thoughts on “I am a Quest-hole Now – Meta Quest 3 Review”

  1. 10:48 There are actually 3 microphones, one on the front for noise cancelling and 2 hidden in the gap on the faceplate for picking up your voice. This gap is also an air-intake so when the fan spools up mic quality drops substantially.

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  2. I've had a Lenovo WMR headset for around 6 years now. VR blew my mind but felt like a gimmick so far, with games I would play for 15 mintues at a time, maybe more with Beat Saber and such, but that's it.

    I got the Quest 3 a week ago and it's blowing my mind still today. The clarity of the passthrough is pretty good, but just the fact of being able to see the room in real time is a game changer. I can drink, I can talk to my wife, I can avoid the dog, reposition myself… It feels like a perfect short-break tool.

    I am also surprised at how well apps run natively in the headset, and PCVR is pretty good too. Of course there's space for improvements, for me mostly battery life (i'm playing longer sessions than ever!) and heat dissipation, but this feels like a very polished product.

    I totally recommend it for people who want to start on VR but also for those who are a bit tired of wired options.

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  3. Well… From 'home user' standpoint it all started with oculus rift so it was 13 years to get up to this point(and it is still just a big and bulky 'toy' with meeh factor) I think it would be another 13 to 15 years until finally 'VR' in hardware and software will mature enough that will be practical to use in daily life- just like companies for he last decade are hyping every year in their beautiful demo scenarios and ads. But its all still very far from truth when it comes to every day life…

    Until then it's a expensive(but fun) toy with many inconveniences. 😊 Maybe in 2035 i will finally want to own one because it will improve quality of life!

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  4. The fact that they cant even just have a normal view through the camera without everything warping like a bad LSD trip…..Garrrrrrrbage. VR still has got a long long way to go before mainstream appeal.

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  5. Has anyone been feeling like the quality of LTT videos have been really good lately? I am so glad that Nexus came forward with what he did and for LTT team to take the L and coming back strong.

    Now the only thing I hope is that they give an update about Billet Labs (honestly that was a grand mistake 🙂

    But I am glad LTT have changed their working culture! These videos are surely of great quality!

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  6. Great review, thanks Linus!! I would say the tracking isn't that bad in my Quest 3. It still needs some lighting and poor lighting can make it suffer, not nearly as bad as my previous HP Reverb G2 but some lighting is necessary. I abolsutely love my Quest 3 and game in it frequently, mostly PCVR but some titles on the Quest store as well. Good job Meta!

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  7. Honestly, I'm still wondering if I should get a quest 3, considering I had a quest 2 (with lots of controller issues) but I might just get a PSVR2, since I have a PS5, and I know it will have SO MUCH more performance

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  8. VR can give me motion sickness so I find AR much easier to deal with. I recently picked this up and have been enjoying it but more importantly my daughter is too. First Encounters is very fun. I'm looking forward to new apps and games in the future

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  9. for me the quest 3 looks like a downgrade compared to the pico 4 (which is my headset), i play wirelessly with my pc and have 0 latency and its cheaper than the quest 3 and i do not care about ar, also the passthrough in the pico looks amazing even though it has no depth sensor

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  10. When we look at the Rift CV1 and the HTV Vive those headsets were both really amazingly well rounded for their time. These days it is more of them doing certain things well but falling short on other areas.

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  11. Just upgraded to the Quest 3 last night from my CV-1 (cable is going out).
    The resolution jump is incredible; the image quality not so much. I have terrible mura even in dim game enviroments, artifacting even in standalone and glitches distortions etc in steam link. Controllers lose tracking and shoulder reaches fail 50% of the time. Quality control is just not good here. Sound distorts and warbles both streaming and on link, wired or wireless. Seriously, even right after a reboot the basic interface gliches and hiccups. Set is waaaaay hotter than my CV1, battery lasts about an hour, even with brightness turned down. AR is very grainy and the warping is everywhere, its only really effective at walking around in lomovision land.
    I am not sure why all the big tech channels like LTT are gushing over these things without acknowleging all the user complaints about mura variance between different units, battery issues and the doom that is trying to get repairs from Meta, who will literally tell you that your replacement hardware will be sourced from other defective returns not refurbished and that they are "working on an updates". Some of this may be early adopter issues but I have never been so initially stoked and then immediately frustrated by these quality issues.
    Also, do not buy this from Gamestop; according to the call center I will be lucky to get store credit tomorrow, the manager may still refuse a defective return and force me to exchange it through Meta which just means getting a different defective unit in exchange, hoping for the flaws in the next one to be lesser. I really was hoping that this was it since just about every other headset uses a propritary connector based on oculink and I am not going through the CV1 paperweight experience again.
    Wish me luck!

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