When it comes to price, the Meta Quest 3 is an insane value for money headset compared to Vision Pro. Today, it’s getting even better with the latest v66 update.
Meta Just Announced the v66 Software Update for the Meta Quest and it Makes their Headset Far better Value Compared to Vision Pro
When you wear the Vision Pro for the first time, the sheer quality of the passthrough wows you immediately. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. Obviously it’s good, Apple is charging a premium for the headset. On the Meta Quest 3 side of the fence, things aren’t that great.
The problem with Quest 3’s passthrough view is the out-of-control warping effect that manifest itself when you bring something near your face, especially your hands or phone. It’s so bad you just don’t want anything near the headset in passthrough mode.
With v66, Meta is making a ton of progress and actually making the Quest 3 a far more viable choice compared to Vision Pro, especially if you want to use Meta’s headset as a standalone spatial computer.
In case you’re wondering how much passthrough improvement you can expect from the latest v66 update, here’s a video demonstrating that:
If you’re going to buy a Meta Quest 3 for the first time, be thankful you won’t be dealing with the awful warping and distortion effect. v66 appears to have fixed most of it. At least enough so that it doesn’t look insanely bad.
Another new feature in the v66 update is the ability to play background audio or music. Being an owner of the Quest 3 myself, I remain baffled why such a small little feature wasn’t a part of the headset since the beginning. Thankfully, this is no longer an issue and you can keep on playing audio in the background from the web browser app regardless of where you are in the headset.
While there are other neat new features in the update such as wrist buttons and parental supervision updates, which you can read about here, but the thing that deserved an update the most was passthrough.
Using the Meta Quest 3 in passthrough mode is something a lot of users do; it’s fun that way. It also leaves a massive impression on first-time users, too. With the warp and distortion effect now gone, everything around you will start to look as close to reality as possible.
With small updates like these, the Quest 3 becomes insane value for money. It costs just $499, and if you are not willing to drop Apple’s starting price of $3,499 on Vision Pro, it’s definitely worth trying at this point. Even if you don’t like the Quest 3 as a spatial computer, you’ll definitely fall in love with its massive gaming catalog and touch remote controllers, something which the Vision Pro straightaway lacks.
The new v66 update is rolling out now and will be available for Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro.
