The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day

The Meta Quest 3S features inside-out tracking for standalone functionality astir anywhere. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Until the extremity of Amazon’s October sale aboriginal tonight, you tin drawback the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for conscionable $297.49 (usually $349.99) astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. While the lenses and displays aren’t rather arsenic crisp arsenic the Quest 3, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is simply a overmuch much tenable terms for casual VR gaming and movies. In different words, it’s a large upgrade implicit the Quest 2. You’ll besides get 3 months of Horizon Plus, which gives you entree to a immense room of games.

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:

• $349.99 $297.99 astatine Amazon (128GB)
• $349 $297.99 astatine Walmart (128GB)
• $349 $297.99 astatine Best Buy (128GB)

If you bargain the headset from Amazon, the woody besides includes the “Cardboard Monkenaut” cosmetic acceptable for Gorilla Tag VR, arsenic good arsenic 2,000 “Shiny Rocks” to walk connected different in-game items. This fashionable multiplayer crippled is escaped to play connected Quest headsets, and volition person you chasing friends oregon matchmade players done the trees successful a high-flying crippled of tag.

Read our Meta Quest 3S review.