The Quest 2 is presently being supplanted by the $500 Quest 3, in fact, but it surely’s nonetheless an unimaginable entry level to VR, one which performs each Quest sport apart from a single Quest 3-exclusive title introduced final month. It doesn’t have colour passthrough imaginative and prescient or good blended actuality gaming, and I positively want the Quest 3 for consolation and immersion, however I don’t know if I want it by $300.
I do have issues about how lengthy Meta will assist the Quest 2 after seeing how a lot the corporate dissed the unique Quest by retroactively shutting down fan-favorite games and pulling support. Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth advised me we should always count on first-party video games to assist Quest 2 for “fairly some time” last June however didn’t reply my query about whether or not Meta would possibly retroactively shut down video games on Quest 2.
Nonetheless, there are hundreds of thousands extra causes to assist Quest 2: it was the preferred headset the corporate’s ever produced and the lion’s share of the 20 million headsets Meta bought as of February 2023. It was in such excessive demand throughout the pandemic that Meta actually raised the price on a then-two-year-old gadget in 2022.
For now, the Quest 2 may even get some updates forward of the Quest 3, like the lying down mode that arrived in March and took one other month to hit Meta’s newer headset.
The Quest 2 nonetheless appears like deal at present.