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Feb 28, 2023MW-0004Moving target

Meta Quest 3 was reported thinner, faster and slightly pricier

Alex Heath reported Quest 3 would be twice as thin, at least twice as powerful, and cost slightly more than Quest 2.

Alex Heath reported that Meta Quest 3 would be twice as thin, at least twice as powerful and cost slightly more than Quest 2. This record tracks those three comparison claims.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedAlex Heath reported Quest 3 would be twice as thin, at least twice as powerful, and cost slightly more than Quest 2.
  2. Who said it, and whenAlex Heath reported it on Feb 28, 2023 in The Verge.
  3. What happened, and whenMeta Quest 3 was announced on Jun 1, 2023, 93 days after this report.
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: Right that it cost slightly more than the $400 Quest 2 and was at least twice as powerful. Wrong that it would be two times thinner.
What do these words mean?
Right
It turned out the way this report said.
Partly right
Some of this was right and some of it was not.
Wrong
It did not turn out this way.
Moving target
This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
Never settled
The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
Not comparable
This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
No outcome yet
Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
Not checked yet
The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
Checked
Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
Moving target
A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
Reported by
Alex Heath
We read it in
The Verge
Product
Meta Quest 3
Read it at The Verge

The story of this report

  1. Feb 28, 2023Alex Heath reported it · The Verge
  2. Jun 1, 2023Meta Quest 3 was announced · official source
  3. VerdictMoving targetWhat it means, and why, is in the box above.

Who reported it

Alex Heath · Journalist

27 reports in the Reporting Record. Of the 11 we have checked, 10 held up. The other 16 are not part of that number: 3 moving target, 11 never settled, 2 not comparable.

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What we know now

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Other reports about Meta Quest 3

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Questions about this report

Did this Meta Quest 3 report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. Right that it cost slightly more than the $400 Quest 2 and was at least twice as powerful. Wrong that it would be two times thinner.
Who reported it first?
Alex Heath reported it on Feb 28, 2023 in The Verge.
How far ahead of the announcement was it?
That was 93 days before Meta Quest 3 was announced on Jun 1, 2023.