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Meta's budget standalone VR/mixed-reality headset, a lower-cost variant of the Quest 3 running Meta's Horizon OS.
Reviewers who lived with Valve's headset for a week or three praise the 440-gram fit and log crashes, power loss and a mostly unrated game library. The price assumes you already bought the PC.
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Dutch privacy authority AP warned that sharing camera-glasses footage breaks GDPR unless every person in the frame consented. For teams building camera products, that puts a per-person consent check on the code path that shares footage.
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Meta put its Muse assistant on every pair of glasses and headset it showed at Connect, led by $1,300 VR Glasses due this spring. For a team buyer the lineup is separate devices for separate jobs. The evidence on how people use Meta's hardware is still thin.
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Valve's new headset starts at $1,059 for 256GB and ships without a charger. The first batch is rationed by a randomised draw that only Steam accounts with a previous purchase can enter.
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Meta plans to ship the glasses in spring 2027 at $1,299, with 5K micro-OLED lenses on the face and a three-hour puck in the pocket. XR teams have about six months to make their apps work without a trigger.
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Eight videos briefly posted to the ARM Steam client confirm a battery in the headstrap, a manual IPD wheel and a swappable light blocker. Valve still has not said what any of it costs.
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