TechVRMeta Quest 3 VR headset launch is imminent, says MetaThe launch of the Meta Quest 3 is good news for VR gamers but potentially bad for Meta’s bank balanceWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechVRMeta Quest 3 VR headset launch is imminent, says MetaThe launch of the Meta Quest 3 is good news for VR gamers but potentially bad for Meta’s bank balanceWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The launch of the Meta Quest 3 is good news for VR gamers but potentially bad for Meta’s bank balance
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Meta’s new VR headset, theMeta Quest Pro, is getting a more affordable sibling in 2023 to vie for the title ofbest VR headset. While Meta hasn’t confirmed that the device will be called theMeta Quest 3, it has confirmed that the headset exists and is coming next year.
The confirmation came from Meta’s finance boss Dave Whener during the company’s latest earnings call, with him stating that “the next generation of the consumer Quest headset” would launch in 2023.
Whener has spoken about the device before, telling Stratechery’sBen Thompsonthat “there will be a Quest 3 and that’s in the price range of $300, $400, or $500, that zone.” But the confirmation during the call must have cheered up Meta investors, for whom the rest of the call was about as welcome as a late-night phone call about an ageing relative. Meta’s VR adventures are losing an absolute fortune.
Virtual reality is costing Meta real money
Meta has revealed that Reality Labs, its VR division, isn’t so much losing money as throwing it in a skip and setting it on fire. It lost a whopping $3.7 billion in the third quarter of 2022, up from $2.8 billion in the previous quarter and contributing to a total 2022 loss so far of over 9 billion dollars. Whener says next year will be even worse.
Facebook’s parent is hardly bankrupt; it logged revenues of $28 billion. But with Mark Zuckerberg effectively betting the farm on the metaverse and committing to ever-increasing losses for the foreseeable future, that’s going to put pressure on the rest of the company to boost revenues – and I think that’s likely to mean even more aggressive pushing of content you didn’t ask for on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
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