Meta is launching an official Open Facial Interface for Quest 3, priced at $40.
With Quest Professional being discontinued quickly, Meta will now not provide a headset with an open periphery, that means the power to see the true world on the sides of your view. Which may be why it is now providing an official choice to realize this with Quest 3.
Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth has stated that he was an enormous fan of the open design of Quest Professional, and appeared to tease this Open Facial Interface on a number of events over the previous 12 months. Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly a serious proponent of Quest Professional’s open sides too.
There are already a number of third-party halo straps for Quest 3 that allow utilizing it and not using a facial interface in any respect, however Meta’s accent has a really totally different design to any we have seen up to now.
As a substitute of being a halo strap, the official Open Facial Interface nonetheless presses towards your face. However the area between the interface and the headset itself is empty, permitting you to see the true world.
When inventory of Quest Professional and the 128GB Quest 3 runs out, the price of a Meta headset with an official open periphery might be $540.
