PRE-ORDER NOW: As of Sept. 27, the Meta Quest 3 (starting at $499.99) is available for preorder in the Meta Store ahead of its official launch on Oct. 10. Major retailers' listings are coming soon.

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After months of teasers by way of Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram account, Meta Quest 3 finally got an official reveal during the Meta Connect event keynote livestream on Wednesday. Preorders are now live in the Meta Store ahead of its release on Tuesday, Oct. 10.

The base 128GB model is priced at $499.99 and comes with a free copy of Asgard’s Wrath 2 (an upcoming VR RPG worth $59.99). That makes it $200 pricier than the 128GB Meta Quest 2, its predecessor from 2020, which dropped down to $299.99 in June.

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The 512GB version of the Quest 3 retails for $649.99 and tacks on a bonus six-month Meta Quest+ subscription valued at $107.99.

Meta plugged the Quest 3 as "the first mainstream mixed-reality headset" and "the most powerful Meta Quest yet." It has a new pancake lens design and runs on a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor.

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