The Meta Quest 2 is probably not Meta’s newest and biggest digital actuality headset, but it surely stays a powerful worth for individuals who wish to give VR a strive with out spending a ton of money. Now, it is much more inexpensive: A brand new deal has dropped the headset all the way down to $199 at a number of retailers, together with Walmart, Amazon, Greatest Purchase, Goal and Meta’s personal on-line retailer. That is $50 beneath the machine’s commonplace going price (after a everlasting worth reduce earlier this yr) and the biggest low cost we have seen.
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This deal marks the very best worth we have seen for Meta’s entry-level VR headset, and it comes with a $50 retailer credit score for no additional value.
$199 at Walmart
At Walmart, the low cost comes with a $50 credit score to the Meta Quest Retailer. The retailer says that you will must redeem the credit score in VR inside 90 days of activating the headset, but it surely’s nonetheless a pleasant approach to save on any video games or apps you propose on utilizing first. Greatest Purchase, in the meantime, is throwing in Logitech’s Refrain add-on speaker for no additional value. (Although we have not examined that accent.) There are not any particular bonuses at Amazon as of this writing, however the deal comes as a part of the corporate’s wider Massive Spring Sale occasion.
We gave the Quest 2 a evaluation rating of 89 when it was launched again in 2020, and it is now the highest finances decide in our information the very best VR headsets. To be clear, in case you can afford the newer Meta Quest 3, you need to nonetheless purchase that as an alternative: It has higher screens, a sooner processor, extra RAM and a modicum of blended actuality performance. Its full-color passthrough makes it simpler to work together with the actual world whereas preserving the headset on, and the entire thing ought to maintain up higher with new video games going ahead.
Nevertheless it prices $500. For a lot much less money, the Quest 2 can nonetheless run nearly all the platform’s greatest video games and apps, from Asgard’s Wrath 2 to Walkabout Mini Golf. It is nonetheless utterly wi-fi and comparatively comfy — insofar as a VR headset could be comfy — and it will get across the identical two to a few hours of battery life. In comparison with the Quest 3, its LCD screens aren’t as sharp (with a 1,832 x 1,920 decision per eye as an alternative of two,064 x 2,208) and have a narrower area of view, however they need to nonetheless be ample for most individuals entering into VR for the primary time. With a hyperlink cable, it may well nonetheless hook as much as a gaming PC and play VR video games like Half-Life: Alyx as effectively. In the event you’ve been inquisitive about VR however aren’t certain in case you’ll use your headset as something greater than a toy for infrequent gaming, the Quest 2 ought to be sufficient, and this deal makes the upfront funding rather less daunting.
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