Major upgrades outweigh few negatives.

Head(sets) up, Readers.

The basic facial interface also does a pretty good job of eliminating light leakage.

Ian Higton holding a Meta Quest 3 headset and looking all smug and stuff.

Another big new upgrade for the Touch Plus controllers is the inclusion of TruTouch haptics.

With three haptic units in each controller the immersion of interacting with virtual objects is increased slightly.

I wouldn’t say the field of view is massively increased by these new lenses though.

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If I’d have had handtracking on at this point it would have been very Minority Report indeed!

Audio-wise, the new built in speakers of the Quest 3 are louder than before, with bassier sounds.

A quick test of the in-built mic during in-headset video recording sounded fine too.

The quality of this image taken from Passthrough view shows so much detail of Ian’s cat Tilly who is blepping at the camera. You can see old bits of catfood on the floor near ‘Din Dins Corner’ because cats are messy eaters.

Nothing special but not terrible either.

Unfortunately there’s not a huge amount of improvement here.

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An image showing the quality difference between the Quest 2 and Quest 3. The Quest 3 image is much sharper and the lighting sources are more vivid.

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