**Getting Work Done with Meta Quest 3**

You can get work done on the Meta Quest 3, it's not as easy as Apple Vision Pro but it costs a lot less and there are a number of apps that will do it. You can use the Metazone desktop app, I actually like using Immersed and uh I'm going to use Immersed right now. I got my Mac here but I have two monitors look at that I can actually extend across both monitors so that's cool um and very useful and you can Curve Your displays around some of the interface things are a little wonky um here I'm working in an immersive environment but I can also uh tap my hand and get uh mixed reality and now I can see the whole world around me with the laptop so I can see my keyboard and yeah you can do work on this. So um is it as nice as the as The Vision Pro no but I like the fact that this works and that you could actually basically do your work on the quest 3 for $500 now.

The one thing you can't do here is open up additional apps Beyond this now right now I'm in IMM so I'm in the M environment I certainly can't open up um any iOS apps. Your mileage may vary, working on the Quest 3 and I think it's really fine as a pention to your PC or your Mac um but it's not going to feel as Ultra hooked in as The Vision Pro does.

**Sharing with Meta Quest**

Assuming you got one of these, probably only have one and you might think about sharing them well. The Apple Vision Pro is really tough to share first of all it doesn't work with glasses you have to have your own prescription lenses it also has different fits different types of headbands different face mask pieces which could be fine but they might not fit perfectly other people's faces. Apple's sharing process is also much more complicated each person in guest mode has to do their eye and hand tracking setups before they start and there's no easy way to start and end a stream to monitor what they're looking at.

Apple has AirPlay that can drop out and there's no dedicated app to start that the Meta Quest is really good for sharing it allows multiple accounts it also doesn't have any restrictions on glasses so you can put your glasses inside of it and there is a Meta Quest app, what runs on iPhone or runs on Android and you can take a look and manage what that person is demoing. You can start an at from in there, you can watch their stream cast it onto your phone, you can reposition and reenter their view for them so I find that's great if you're demoing it for someone who hasn't done VR before I love that ability I feel like it's designed for that and apple needs to really catch up on that.

**Best Mixed Reality VR Headset**

So what's the best mixed reality VR headset right now? Now I mean that answer is really easy, it is the Quest 3 and that's because of its price and its overall feature set. If you consider a game console with lots of other benefits the ability that it could do work that it could do these other things it could do fitness for you it's sharable that's a lot in a little package that's really not too expensive.

That doesn't mean that the Apple Vision Pro is not a fascinating product there's a lot of things that it does particularly in terms of video playback and its multitasking and the possibilities of pushing comp shooting in this platform forward that are really really interesting but at that price $3,500 and with a 1.0 type of experience with its software and apps it's something that you definitely want to see what it's going to evolve into unless you're somebody who wants to test drive the future if you're ready to buy into that and live with that weirdness and the fascination points too well then go ahead but definitely just try a demo first before deciding to buy one.

This is a lot easier to recommend to buy because the Quest has been around for several generations now and Oculus has been working at VR for about 10 years so this is a pretty polished product for what it is even if it has experimental edges around it. That being said, the landscape is going to change right now these things look like VR headsets with mixed reality benefits at some point we're going to get towards glasses that we might be able to wear all around in the world but we're not there yet so we'll check back in on this as it goes.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enApple's Vision Pro headset has been around for weeks now and met as Mark Zuckerberg just appeared on Instagram to talk about how the quest 3 compares to the Vision Pro I bet you know his answer but I've been looking at these headsets for a while and I've worn the quest 3 for quite a long time so how are these different which one is better I can help you with that first of all on Cat's best VR headsets there is a winner it is the quest 3 there are a lot of reasons for that at $500 compared to $3500 this is the one that's affordable plus these conceptually do similar things how they execute them is pretty different these are both VR headsets with mixed reality capabilities Apple wants you to think about the AR side of things meow wants you to think about VR and AR but they both work by using external cameras that show pass through of the real world and bring it in to your VR headset to blend the virtual and the real how do these these both feel a Weare well you have to get used to wearing a VR headset they both have a weight on your face the quest 3 especially with some of its extra straps like this one I feel like fit on my head and balance much better the Vision Pro is heavier notably a bit heavier and a more topheavy in the front if I put on this dual Loop strap it feels better but also you have to bring around this battery pack which has a hard time uh figuring out where it wants to be now there's things that these have in common like mixed reality but the way they're used games and Fitness and things like that work and videos you can already see that they're diverging let's get into it so the Apple Vision Pro and the quest 3 both have pass through cameras that show The Real World hello I can see you now the Apple Vision Pros cameras are a lot higher quality I can see things pretty crisply but not the same as my everyday Vision it still looks like I'm kind of looking at this through a camera feed I definitely see motion blur I definitely see lower uh resolution but you can actually look at it with me I mean it's good enough that I can take a look at this book for instance uh that's Stanley kubric and I can definitely read it but I can take a look at my phone for instance and I can take a look um at CET on my phone and I definitely can read things would I want to be doing this all the time no but it's definitely usable if I need to in a pinch check my watch um flip through things like that and that's the whole idea is that when I also bring up apps here and I'm doing stuff and I also take a look at things down here I can feel like my world is still around me but it's seen through a camera so the quest 3 also has pass through video there's definitely a lower camera quality here that being said it's still good enough to see the world around you reasonably okay to function like if I need to know where my phone is I need to know where my controllers are there's definitely some Distortion but it's color it's much better than the Quest 2 and even if I want to look at a book you can't tell in this camera capture what it looks like in my eyes but it still looks pretty okay I can totally tell these are pictures from The Shining I can make out the captions and the little footnotes and again I can check my phone here reading an article on CNET um hello David caroy so I can do that too on the quest 3 the only difference is that the display is lacking that extra crispness now the way that the mixed reality works is a little bit different they both use depth sensors to scan and mesh the world around you potentially being able to mix the virtual and real with physical objects like furniture and walls meta asks you to go through a room setup first to lay out the space Apple does it automatically no room setup at all now meta has games and apps that can recognize things like walls and play around with the landscape a little bit Apple's not doing that that much even though it has the capability for the most part apple is just layering flat screens and objects over what you see but they can even kind of go through walls there is some heads up display awareness in both when you're getting too close to objects but these both have the capability to start blending things more down the road Apple's is higher res meta Quest 31 though is functional let's talk about hand tracking so right now I'm doing hand tracking on the Apple Vision Pro one thing I really like about hand tracking on this headset is that it works with your eyes what that does is it saves a lot of time on gestures I can look around at icons and I can be able to tap on one and all I have to do is look at it and tap and I don't have to actually reach over and tap so if I do this right now I can look over it only on Vision Pro and tap my hand is nice and lazy I could even keep it down on the side and do that and it makes browsing a lot easier because I can just interact and do things without having to reach up like you do on the meta Quest sometimes with hand tracking now what I don't like on Vision Pro with I hand tracking is precision if I open up Safari here and I open up a website some of these smaller icons on the web page are a little hard to focus on if I look at more click on that I'm looking at some of our other sub things on our site um space biology I'm finding like I took a little moment to get onto climate versus space and like I accidentally clicked space and I meant to get climate so that's frustrating the more tiny icons that you have to interact with here it can frustrate my eyes and I feel like apple needs to improve the eye tracking on this to make that work better and now let's talk about the meta Quest 3 now the quest 3 comes with controllers which are great that have buttons and allow you to interact with things and play games and control the interface we can also use hand tracking now meta hand tracking does not have eye tracking so it's only recognizing your hand motions and sometimes it doesn't kick in like I put down the controllers and I'm waiting for it to kick in now it's kicking in and you can interface with things the meta's language is a little bit different and sometimes a little bit buggy like I can tap this okay that brought up my interface and I can see things now I can reach out and drag Windows just like I can on Vision Pro uh but you need to reach out interact a little more and if you want to control things you have these poiny um circles that kind of appear like pointers from your hands that you've got to aim and scroll you can still do the pinch and scroll gestures but you have to keep your hand up a little higher than on Vision Pro and sometimes it doesn't it's a little hard to nail the clicking like there um it's definitely not as seamless as on Vision Pro but it works if you don't like it you can always go back to using the controllers there are already hundreds of games on the quest 3 it's a game console you can play them in VR and also in mixed reality right now I'm playing racka club which I can finally play in a large Dimension space that's bigger than my home sets up basically like a pickle ball court that I can see you I can see the room and I'm playing an active racket sport game right here with a virtual opponent oh come on I got that got a little racket in my hand the feedback is great it's super responsive and you just can't do this on Vision Pro so I mean this is what my kids love about VR on the quest and it's what I love about VR on the quest and there's a lot of games so let's start Supernatural which is a fantastic workout gaming type of experience which has dance moves and boxing so it tracks heart rate I can do all sorts of um exercises in here and it's really been my go-to and apple surprisingly has not gotten into fitness yet on the Vision Pro certainly not like this although I imagine at some point they might and this one's like a bat based dancing one so it's not that there are no games on Apple Vision Pro it's just that the variety of games is a lot less especially at launch right now actually one really fun one that um is is one of the early interesting weird games on Vision Pro is blackbox which basically has these little mysterious puzzles and you kind of got to tap them with your fingers and figure out what exactly is going on now I'm going to try to tap this one which I played before now I've got this sparkling thing I have to turn to okayo a little dizzy from that going to do that and make the ball reenter on my hands goodbye floating bubble so this has some interesting hand tracking things I want to see more stuff like this the closest I could find to a fitness game on here CU it is possible is synth Riders which is on Apple arcade now my hands have these balls that are floating on them and I'm going to play along with the music I mean not bad especially for a first gen effort but I'm really thrown off that you know that I feel like I can't get any feedback from what I'm controlling even though I can see the glowing balls that I'm controlling with the music so it's possible that there could be active games for this it just doesn't seem like a priority and I'm a little worried about the speed of the hand tracking you can kind of see that it's a little little laggy right now although I'm also doing camera capture so who knows all right so that's s the writers if you're going to spend $3,500 the one thing you know this is going to do is play movies and TV shows and videos spectacularly so yeah you can play back spatial videos obviously on on Apple's headset where they're intended just like I did on Quest I'm just recording some video this is for my own purposes because it's 3D for uh this new mode and yeah I'm I'm being swept up a lot more by it this feels larger it feels more like it's present like it's coming into my space um everything's bigger you know and more vibrant and that just makes it feel more mive yeah I just kind of want to watch everything like this my colleague brid Carey felt the same way when she saw it it's one of the best features about the headset it's like headphones for your eyes there are a lot of videos you can play on the quest 3 headset the only difference is that the display resolution and quality isn't quite as good still it's good enough if you want to be able to view a few things especially for the price so you can access things like YouTube in the browser right now I'm looking at CET I can play um a recent review of headphones and if I want to blow this up to full screen I can do that um and right now I'm looking at CET video on a nice big screen and I'm talking to you just like the Vision Pro again the tradeoff is that the video quality here is totally fine but it's not as good as a great TV or Cinema experience whereas on the Vision Pro I think it is so it's a matter of degree but you can definitely play this on a big screen and there are things like Amazon Prime video there's Netflix um there aren't as many streaming video app choices but you can look at your spatial videos and I'll show you that now so I'm actually going to take a look at a Thanksgiving memory that I looked at on Vision Pro and it's my mom just record hi Mom this is for my own purposes because it's 3D it's for uh this there a new mode I'm see this feels like I'm there later yeah so I see my Momom I see family the video is a little bit choppy so it's not as smooth as it was on Vision Pro um it doesn't look great but it looks viewable and it looks immersive you know it looks like um it kind of looks like I'm singing across from my mom it's not as good as Vision Pro but it's nice that it's in in here as well what is working on a computer like with a Vision Pro well there are two different ways you can do it first of all you can work on your Mac and you can cast a a big monitor of what you're looking at that can be sized in different ways so I've got my MacBook here projected I could put it up here or float it down here um you can only do one monitor though unlike uh meta Quest 3 which I'll get to in a moment um you can just do one screen at once everything looks nice and crisp and what I like is that I can lean in and uh well it told me I'm getting too close to my laptop but you can lean in and get details on things or bring the monitor nice and close and it looks nice and crisp uh you can also do this on the quest 3 but the quality of this display is much better the other thing you can do is because it's running iOS you can bring up other things next to it like Hey Siri open Apple music and now I've got my music library playing and I can play something there or hey Siri open Apple TV and I could play something there I find that when I'm working in this mode and everything connected I feel like I'm actually working in an extended Mac or apple Computing space and it's pretty nice all right now let's get some work done in meta Quest 3 you can do that you can get work done on the meta Quest 3 it's not as easy as Apple Vision Pro but it costs a lot less and there are a number of apps that will do it you can use metazone uh desktop app I actually like using immersed and uh I'm going to use immersed right now I got my Mac here but I have two monitors look at that I can actually extend across both monitors so that's cool um and very useful and you can Curve Your displays around uh some of the interface things are a little wonky um here I'm working in an immersive environment but I can also uh tap my hand and get uh mixed reality and now I can see the whole world around me with the laptop so I can see my keyboard and yeah you can do work on this so um is it as nice as the as The Vision Pro no but I like the fact that this works and that you could actually basically do your work on the quest 3 for $500 now the one thing you can't do here is open up additional apps Beyond this now right now I'm in IMM so I'm in the M environment I certainly can't open up um any iOS apps your mileage is going to vary working on the quest 3 and I think it's really fine as an pention to your PC or your Mac um but it's not going to feel as Ultra hooked in as The Vision Pro does and now let's get to something you might not have thought about sharing assuming you got one of these you probably only have one and you might think about sharing them well the Apple Vision Pro is really tough to share first of all it doesn't work with glasses you have to have your own prescription lenses it also has different fits different types of headbands different face mask pieces which could be fine but they might not fit perfectly other people's faces Apple's sharing process is also much more complicated each person in guest mode has to do their eye and hand tracking setups before they start and there's no easy way to start and end a stream to monitor what they're looking at Apple has AirPlay that can drop out and there's no dedicated app to start that the meta Quest is really good for sharing it allows multiple accounts it also doesn't have any restrictions on glasses so you can put your glasses inside of it and there is a meta Quest app what runs on iPhone or runs on Android and you can take a look and manage what that person is demoing you can start an at from in there you can watch their stream cast it onto your phone you can reposition and reenter their view for them so I find that's great if you're demoing it for someone who hasn't done VR before I love that ability I feel like it's designed for that and apple needs to really catch up on that so if you're looking to share something in your house with a lot of people this is the one so what's the best mixed reality VR headset right now now I mean that answer is really easy it is the quest 3 and that's because of its price and its overall feature set if you consider a game console with lots of other benefits the ability that it could do work that it could do these other things it could do Fitness for you it's sharable that's a lot in a little package that's really not too expensive that doesn't mean that the Apple Vision Pro is not a fascinating product there's a lot of things that it does particularly in terms of video playback and its multitasking and the possibilities of pushing comp shooting in this platform forward that are really really interesting but at that price $3,500 and with a 1.0 type of experience with its software and apps it's something that you definitely want to see what it's going to evolve into unless you're somebody who wants to test drive the future if you're ready to buy into that and live with that weirdness and the fascination points too well then go ahead but definitely just try a demo first before deciding to buy one this is a lot easier to recommend to buy because the quest has been around for several Generations now and Oculus has been working at VR for about 10 years so this is a pretty polished product for what it is even if it has experimental edges around it that being said the landscape is going to change right now these things look like VR headsets with mixed reality benefits at some point we're going to get towards glasses that we might be able to wear all around in the world but we're not there yet so we'll check back in on this as it goes this is round one of looking at meta's headsets versus Apple's headsets and comparing them if you have questions or comments below please provide them and tell me what you think and uh thanks for watching\n"