The headset boasted a sleeker, more comfortable design, as well as new AR capabilities, that made it more appealing than its predecessor. Once again, for Meta Connect 2024, the social media giant is expected to drop a new VR headset, but it's not necessarily an upgrade over the Quest 3.

We’re waist-deep into a season of tech launches, and next on the agenda is Meta Connect. Tomorrow, Meta ’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to unveil a less advanced but significantly cheaper Meta Quest 3S VR headset to rival the Quest 3 at its upcoming keynote, as well as give us a look at its true Orion AR glasses.

While the Quest 3S hasn’t been officially unveiled by Meta, it has been sneakily alluded to several times by the company, and a vast amount of information surrounding the headse

The Meta Connect keynote will stream live on the official Meta Connect website. If you’re a Quest headset user, you can also watch it on Horizon Worlds. Following the keynotes, you can participate in live developer sessions for deep dives on AI and mixed reality on Facebook.

A new leak indicates that a new Meta Quest virtual reality headset is about to release, and at a considerably lower price than the Meta Quest 3.

Meta has garnered quite a lot of popularity among the augmented reality/virtual reality headsets recently, especially after the introduction of Apple Vision Pro. Meta is now gearing up for the biggest event of the year,

Official channels have remained silent, but Meta’s next VR headset is still expected by 2026, possibly in more than one flavor