You probably know the Meta Quest 3S has the same CPU as the Quest 3, but what else has changed from the Quest 2? Less than you'd think, but there are some key differences you might miss by looking at it.

Learn more about Meta's new Quest 3S, a budget-priced mixed-reality headset with many of the best features of the $500 Quest 3.

With the Quest 3 and the Quest 3S, Meta has a strong lineup. Even though VR headsets remain relatively niche — and the company’s metaverse ambitions haven’t even come close to fruition — if you’re new to VR, Meta offers great hardware and a ton of VR experiences to get lost in. And perhaps best of all, you won’t have to pay $3,499 to get started.

And yet, for all its new features -- a better color passthrough camera that can enable mixed reality just like the more expensive Quest 3 and the same Quest 3 processor for more advanced graphics in games -- I wonder how rapidly the VR and AR app landscape on Quest can accelerate along with it.

Meta Quest 3 Preorder Bundle (128GB): for $299 @ Walmart The Walmart's Meta Quest 3 preorders are now live. The retailer is offering the base model and the larger variant headset with Batman: Arkham Shadow for free. The device ships October 15.

The new Meta Quest 3S looks like it's going to be a hit headset, delivering many of the features of the Meta Quest 3 at a more affordable price. But while the Quest 3S will delive

Meta has said it will produce its newest mixed reality headset, the Quest 3S, in Vietnam, a move that will create 1,000 jobs.