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’ in the Quest firmware with a single 120Hz 4128×2208 LCD panel, equating to 2064×2208 per eye.
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 2064×2208 figure is exactly 29.6% more pixels than 1832×1920, Quest 2’s resolution per eye.
Quest 2
Quest Pro
Quest 3
Launch
Late 2020
Late 2022
Late 2023
Lens Type
Fresnel
Pancake
Pancake
IPD Adjust
3-Step
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 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.
