The Meta Quest 3S costs less than the Quest 3, but is there really a big difference? IFixit reveals that the headset is hiding something unexpected, or more specifically, the same Fresnel lenses used in the Quest 2.
Looking past the optical stack, you’ll also find the same LCD panel being, right down to the display panel connector. However, this isn’t just the same headset in a different case, as instead of the 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen1 SoC with 6GB of RAM, the Quest 3S has a 4nm Gen2 SoC with 8GB of RAM.
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On one hand, it’s good that they are reusing components between the Q2 and the Q3S, but on the other hand the Q3S really does not feel like a worthwhile upgrade to the Q2, because the entire optical system (lenses, displays) is exactly the same,” said one commenter.
