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Meta is has sidelined a direct Meta Quest 4 successor to today\u2019s Quest 3<\/a>, with plans to instead release a lower-weight headset next year.<\/p>\n This is according to UploadVR<\/a>, which says it has corroboration from \u201cmultiple sources.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s bad news for those who love the Meta Quest series as it is. But it is also probably not as bad as it sounds.<\/p>\n The suggestion is Meta has cancelled an existing Meta Quest 4-style project, not that Meta will never make another headset in that style.<\/p>\n It means Meta next plans instead to release a headset that keeps its power and computing brains in an external housing, a puck, in order to keep the weight of the headset itself low.<\/p>\n Such a style is seen in the Apple Vision Pro<\/a> and the upcoming Android XR-powered Samsung Project Moohan<\/a> headset.<\/p>\n Meta Quest 4: What\u2019s Coming Instead?<\/p>\n This upcoming Meta headset is expected to be much lighter and slighter than either of those, though. Earlier reports suggest this concept, codenamed Puffin, will look closer to a beefed-up set of sunglasses than a VR headset.<\/p>\n Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n You might look to XReal\u2019s Project Aura pair for a hint as to how Meta\u2019s upcoming headset might turn out. That pair will use Android XR, and is expected to land in early 2026.<\/p>\n The utility of such a deviation from Meta\u2019s existing headset designs is clear. It\u2019s a wearable much more appealing to use when not at home, compared to a Meta Quest 3.<\/p>\n It will run the same HorizonOS software as today\u2019s Meta headsets, enabling the use of countless apps, if likely with a narrower field of view. This effectively means the virtual screen created by the Meta Puffin will appear smaller.<\/p>\n UploadVR suggests the exact display tech for this headset has not yet been picked. Again, XReal\u2019s products can be taken as an indicator as to what is already possible.<\/p>\n Its Air One glasses have a 1080p microOLED display that, according to the marketing blurb, can create the impression of a 147-inch screen sat in front of you.<\/p>\n While Meta has not revealed any timeline for its upcoming releases, this latest report suggests the low-weight headset will be released next year, ahead of a more conventional Meta Quest 4-style VR headset in 2027.<\/p>\n This will represent a filling-out of what will eventually become a spectrum of smart wearables. At one end there are screen-free smart glasses, just like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses available today. At the other are full-on VR headsets like the Meta Quest 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Quest 3 Meta Meta is has sidelined a direct Meta Quest 4 successor to today\u2019s Quest 3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[598,67196,67197,53,16,15,3243,3244,10904],"class_list":{"0":"post-158877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-meta","9":"tag-puffin","10":"tag-quest-3","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-virtual-reality","15":"tag-vr","16":"tag-vr-headset"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114627969581590641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}