Quest 3 is now listed on Best Buy, and the description may confirm its rumored resolution.
Quest 3 was officially announced earlier this month. Meta hasn’t yet detailed the full specifications, but said the visor is 40% thinner thanks to pancake lenses, the GPU is more than twice as powerful, and it has dual 4 megapixel color cameras and a depth sensor for scene understanding and mixed reality.
Meta also revealed the included new Touch Plus controllers, and explained how they’re tracked without rings or onboard cameras.
Meta said Quest 3 will have its “highest resolution display yet”, but didn’t say the exact display type or resolution.
Almost one year ago though, Quest firmware dataminer Samulia discovered a headset codenamed ‘Eureka865’ with a single 120Hz 4128×2208 LCD panel, equating to 2064×2208 per eye on paper, but less in reality since a single panel can’t be fully utilized by the lenses.
When Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported trying out a Quest 3 developer kit last month, he said the headset was codenamed ‘Eureka’.
The Best Buy listing for Quest 3 that appeared today states it has “a nearly 30% leap in resolution from Quest 2”. What’s interesting about that number is that the datamined 4128×2208 figure is exactly 29.6% more pixels than 3664×1920, Quest 2’s panel resolution.
| Quest 2 | Quest Pro | Quest 3 | |
| Launch | Late 2020 | Late 2022 | Late 2023 |
| Lens Type | Fresnel | Pancake | Pancake |
| IPD Adjust | 3 Steps | Continuous | Continuous |
| Pixels Per Eye | <1832×1920 | 1800×1920 | <2064×2208? |
| Screen Type | LCD | QD-LCD w/ Mini-LED |
LCD |
| Max Refresh | 120Hz | 90Hz | 120Hz? |
| Base Price | $300 | $1000 | $500 |
This would seem to confirm Quest 3’s on-paper resolution as 2064×2208 per eye. And given the datamined resolution seems correct, that could suggest the 120Hz refresh rate is accurate too.
Full details of Quest 3 should be officially confirmed at Connect 2023 on September 27.
