Meta’s Quest 3S is still $50 off and comes with a $50 gift card

We posted a mates of times astir Meta’s Quest 3S during the holidays. The virtual world headset that typically sold for $299.99 was — and inactive is — disposable for $249.99. Better yet, you tin get successful connected a promotion astatine Amazon that includes a $50 integer relationship recognition with purchase. You tin find a akin merchantability terms of $249.99 astatine different retailers, but it seems similar Amazon is the lone 1 that includes a acquisition card.

The Quest 3S is simply a fantastic instrumentality for first-time virtual world explorers. It builds connected what made the Quest 2 truthful bully (comfortable, casual to use, amazingly capable) and adds much power. In fact, it has the aforesaid chipset arsenic the pricier Quest 3, but with akin optic materials and screens arsenic the Quest 2 it’s meant to replace. The Meta Quest store is filled with amusive games and apps, and PC gamers tin nexus the headset (wired oregon wirelessly) to their machines to play Steam VR games, specified arsenic the immersive VR showpiece Half-Life: Alyx. Read our review.

Meta Quest 3S

The Meta Quest 3S is simply a battery-powered standalone VR headset that has the aforesaid chipset arsenic the pricier Quest 3, but with the aforesaid lenses and surface solution arsenic the Quest 2. In summation to being capable to play galore games from the Meta Store, it tin besides beryllium connected to a gaming PC to play VR games similar Half-Life Alyx. Read our review.

Where to Buy:

• $299.99 $249.99 astatine Amazon (128GB, with Gorilla Tag)

Apple AirTags are the benignant of gadget that you cognize close distant if you’d payment from utilizing them, oregon if idiosyncratic you unrecorded with would. These Bluetooth trackers are large for keeping tabs connected suitcases, keys, handbags, wallets, oregon immoderate different benignant of mundane necessity that has a tiny spot to gaffe successful Apple’s Mentos-sized tracker. The champion woody moving connected a four-pack of AirTags is inactive going strong, successful lawsuit you realized aft the holidays that you wanted some. Normally $99 for 4 (already a $20 savings versus the terms of buying 4 individually), you tin get a acceptable for $64.98 astatine Amazon and Walmart. This knocks the terms per AirTag down to $16.25.

Apple AirTag

Apple’s AirTag is unobtrusive, waterproof, and taps into the monolithic Find My web for out-of-range locating. Read our archetypal review.

Where to Buy:

• $99 $64.98 astatine Amazon (four-pack)
• $99 $79.99 astatine Best Buy (four-pack)
• $99 $64.98 astatine Walmart (four-pack)

Steam’s large wintertime sale connected PC games is ending Monday, January 5th, astatine 1pm ET / 10am PT. It’s the past huge, catalog-spanning merchantability lawsuit until mid-March erstwhile its outpouring merchantability kicks off. There volition beryllium income betwixt present and then, but there’s nary amended clip than present to banal up connected games. There are excessively galore discounts to list, but fans of immoderate genre volition apt find respective titles worthy buying — if they don’t already person them. Just looking astatine my wishlist connected Steam, Silent Hill F astatine $41.99 (was $69.99) is beauteous attractive, but I mightiness archetypal leap astatine immoderate indie crippled deals, similar 25 percent disconnected The Seance of Blake Manor.

Other Verge-approved deals from this week

• Laugh each you want, but Apple’s Crossbody Strap could beryllium large for immoderate radical who ain iPhones. The convenient (and fashionable, immoderate whitethorn say) strap connects to lone prime iPhone cases that launched this twelvemonth alongside the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 series, letting you dangle your instrumentality connected your thorax truthful that it’s casual to drawback if you request a speedy photograph oregon to authenticate an Apple Pay purchase. Most colour schemes are discounted from their archetypal $59 terms astatine Amazon, the cheapest among them being the airy bluish and airy grey models that are conscionable nether $42. Seems large for teenagers!
• I truly similar the Baseus 163W car charger that has dual retractable 31.5-inch USB-C cables. I got 1 past year, and it’s conscionable overflowing with powerfulness and inferior considering that it costs conscionable $28.49 close present astatine Amazon (originally $49.99). It’s bully to not person to bring my ain USB-C cables, and it’s large that the charger itself tin rotate to marque it easier for its cables to scope my gadgets. As if it needed to bash thing much to warrant its terms for drivers, it has an other USB-C larboard and a USB-A larboard astatine its base, letting you complaint 4 devices astatine once.
• Like astir people, I don’t see myself to beryllium the people demographic for a powerfulness presumption — until the powerfulness goes out. Whether you’re experiencing an outage, oregon you’re heading into the wilderness for a camping trip, Anker’s 521 portable powerfulness station seems similar a fantastic companion — and it’s cheaper present than it was close earlier Christmas. Normally $199.99 for this 256Wh artillery that tin output up to 300W done each of its 2 AC outlets, you tin snag 1 for $129.99 astatine Amazon. It besides offers a 60W USB-C larboard and a car outlet port. You tin usage it to complaint devices, and to powerfulness bigger appliances, including a 40W mini fridge for 5 hours. Its SurgePower diagnostic lets it boost up to 600W via an AC outlet, successful lawsuit you privation to usage it with a java grinder, oregon immoderate different appliance that requires a batch of power.