The Meta Quest 3S is on sale for $297 – basically its old price

The base model Quest mixes a bit of the higher-end Quest 3 and older Quest 2 for a Goldilocks-style compromise. Like the other tasks, it’s a standalone unit that works wirelessly — until it’s time to charge it, of course. It plays a wide range of games from the Quest Store, such as Batman: Arkham Shadow and supernatural (Once it restarts), and if you don’t mind extra latency, you can stream Steam games wirelessly from your PC.

While much more expensive Task 3 It uses lighter, flatter pancake lenses for its optics, and the 3S uses Fresnel lenses just like the Quest 2 generation. But other than that, it has many similarities to the $600 Quest 3: the same Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor, the same cameras with color pass-through video, and the same controllers. What you’re paying much more for with the Quest 3 is higher image quality, thanks in part to those improved optics and higher resolution per eye. But the Quest 3S still looks good with a resolution of 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye.

It’s unfortunate that we’re no longer seeing the previous kinds of low prices the Quest 3S used to drop to, like when it was $249 on Black Friday, but with the way things are going, that’s as good as it gets right now.