Quest 3 Full Specs – Compared With Quest 2, Quest Pro, Pico 4 & Apple Vision Pro

Meta just opened preorders for Quest 3, set to be the most powerful standalone headset yet when it ships in October. Here’s a detailed rundown of its specifications and features and how those compare to other headsets.

Of course, on-paper specification sheets don’t tell the whole story, so we’ll be bringing you hands-on impressions from Meta Connect later this week and a full review when the device ships in October.

Quest 3 Specs vs Quest 2 vs Quest Pro

Quest 3’s specs significantly exceed Quest 2 with no regressions, and in most ways even surpass Quest Pro despite starting at half the price.

Quest Pro is still the only Meta option for local dimming, eye tracking, and face tracking. But Quest 3 has a twice as powerful GPU, higher resolution, higher max refresh rate, 3x the color passthrough pixels, and a depth projector for 3D environment meshing and improved hand tracking.

Quest 3 Specs vs Apple Vision Pro

While Apple Vision Pro is a much higher end device with a starting price seven times higher, Quest 3’s specs actually hold up fairly well.

At a much more accessible price, Quest 3 still promises color passthrough good enough to read your phone, a slim visor with pancake lenses, and hardware depth sensing for 3D environment meshing and high-quality hand tracking. And unlike Vision Pro, it has tracked controllers and doesn’t need an external battery.

However, Vision Pro has OLED microdisplays with more than twice the number of pixels, a more powerful chipset, eye tracking, face tracking, automatic IPD adjustment, OpticID, and the EyeSight front display. It can also run most iPhone and iPad apps from the App Store as floating panels, and developers can even offer cross-buy.

Quest 3 Specs vs Pico 4

ByteDance’s Pico 4 launched last year to consumers in Europe and Asia boasting improved hardware compared to Quest 2, including a slimmer design enabled by pancake lenses which also have a wider field of view.

However, Pico 4 still uses the original Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, whereas Quest 3 is the first headset with the new XR2 Gen 2. Further, Quest 3 has active depth sensing for 3D environment meshing and improved hand tracking, while Pico 4 only features 2D cameras.

However, Pico 4 still has its own advantages over Quest 3: better weight distribution thanks to its battery being in the rear padding, slightly higher resolution panels, and a taller field of view.

Quest 3 Specs vs Original Oculus Quest

Of course, no specs comparison would be complete without including the original Oculus Quest, the device that redefined VR over four years ago.

While Quest 3 improves over Quest 2 the differences since the original Oculus Quest four years ago are even more dramatic. Notably, though, it was the only Quest so far with OLED displays, which offered contrast and colors unmatched by any LCD, even with Quest Pro’s local dimming capabilities.