The Meta Quest 3S is on sale for $297 — which is basically its old price

Meta Quest 3S 售价 297 美元——这基本上回到了它原来的价格

The Meta Quest 3S VR headset with 128GB of storage is $296.79 (about $53 off) at Amazon. This is Meta’s entry-level VR headset, which launched back in 2024 for $299.99 before getting a price increase this year to $349.99. So it’s not exactly the most exciting deal, but it’s about as good as you’re likely to find these days for a new unit.

亚马逊目前正在以 296.79 美元（约合 53 美元优惠）的价格出售 128GB 版本的 Meta Quest 3S VR 头显。这是 Meta 的入门级 VR 设备，于 2024 年发布时售价为 299.99 美元，但今年价格上涨至 349.99 美元。因此，这算不上什么令人兴奋的超值折扣，但对于全新的设备来说，这已经是目前市面上能找到的最好价格了。

The base model Quest blends a bit of the higher-end Quest 3 and older Quest 2 for a Goldilocks-style compromise. Like other Quests, it’s a standalone unit that operates wirelessly — until it’s time to charge it, of course. It plays a wide selection of games from the Quest store, like Batman: Arkham Shadow and Supernatural (once it relaunches), and if you don’t mind some added latency, you can wirelessly stream Steam games from your PC.

这款基础款 Quest 融合了高端 Quest 3 和老款 Quest 2 的部分特性，达成了一种“金发姑娘”式的平衡（即恰到好处）。与其他 Quest 系列一样，它是一款无线运行的独立设备——当然，充电时除外。它支持 Quest 商店中丰富的游戏库，例如《蝙蝠侠：阿卡姆之影》和《Supernatural》（重新上线后），如果你不介意增加一些延迟，还可以通过无线方式从电脑串流游玩 Steam 游戏。

If you bought a Meta Quest 2, you’re a prime candidate for the Quest 3S. It’s a faster, more comfortable VR headset that runs the same chipset as the pricier Quest 3. While its screen resolution hasn’t improved, nearly everything else about the hardware has.

如果你曾购买过 Meta Quest 2，那么 Quest 3S 将是你的理想升级之选。它是一款运行速度更快、佩戴更舒适的 VR 头显，搭载了与价格更高的 Quest 3 相同的芯片组。虽然屏幕分辨率没有提升，但硬件的其他方面几乎都有所改进。

While the much pricier Quest 3 uses lighter, flatter pancake lenses for its optics, the 3S uses fresnel lenses just like the Quest 2 generation. But other than that, it’s got many similarities as the $600 Quest 3: the same Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor, the same cameras with color passthrough video, and the same controllers. What you pay much more for in the Quest 3 is higher image quality, thanks in part to those refined optics and a higher resolution per eye. But the Quest 3S still looks fine with its 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye.

虽然价格昂贵得多的 Quest 3 在光学系统上使用了更轻、更薄的 Pancake 透镜，但 3S 沿用了与 Quest 2 一代相同的菲涅尔透镜。不过除此之外，它与 600 美元的 Quest 3 有许多相似之处：同样的骁龙 XR2 Gen 2 处理器、同样的彩色透视摄像头以及同样的控制器。Quest 3 卖得更贵的原因在于其更高的图像质量，这部分归功于更精良的光学元件和更高的单眼分辨率。但 Quest 3S 凭借单眼 1832 x 1920 的分辨率，视觉效果依然表现不错。

It’s a shame we’re no longer seeing the previous kinds of low prices the Quest 3S used to fall to, like when it was $249 around Black Friday, but with the way things are going this is as good as it gets for now.

遗憾的是，我们已经看不到 Quest 3S 曾经出现过的那些低价了，比如黑色星期五期间曾降至 249 美元，但就目前的市场情况来看，这已经是现阶段能买到的最好价格了。