First Encounters is a mixed reality experience that you can access after setting up your Quest 3 headset. It’s not available with previous Meta headsets. The 3D scene-mesh that Quest 3 generates is used to create a ship which crashes through the ceiling, lands on the table or floor and allows you to shoot parts of the real wall. Then you have to fire waves of creatures invading your home until the timer expires. How many you shoot determines your score, and your score is logged to Quest’s leaderboard system.
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First Encounters has been diligently tracking the leaderboard for First Encounters, because in the Meta Quest smartphone app it shows how many other “participants” there are, ie. how many people have completed Quest 3’s introduction.
And there we go, Quest 3 has a 99.999% chance that 1M units are in the wild, the morning after Quest 2 finally started going out of stock worldwide Daven Bigelow— JustDaven (@JayHadHope)
We wrote “at least” in this headline because technically, there’s no obligation to complete First Encounters. It’s possible to refuse scanning your mesh room or quit the game at any point. If they’re not, Quest 3 sales are likely far in excess of 1 million. In the Meta 2023 roadmap meeting, which was leaked to The Verge in March of that year, Meta’s VR VP Mark Rabkin informed staff of the company’s pic.twitter.com/eI2UB2oK2d
. The Verge leaked a Meta meeting three months later, in which Mark Rabkin said that the company had sold “tens of millions” of Quests. Andrew Bosworth, the current CTO, said in July 2021 that Quest 2 “outsold its predecessor and all its predecessors together”. This suggests the majority of 20 million Quests purchased by the summer of 2021 were Quest 2.0. But this slower pace isn’t unexpected.June 26, 2024
Quest 2 launched at $100 cheaper than its predecessor, which was immediately taken off the market. Quest 3 was launched $200 more expensive, while Quest 2 continues to sell at a price of $10001010. Quest 2 is now $200, while Quest 3 continues to be $500. Quest 2 continues to sell more than Quest 3 and VR developers told UploadVR that the majority of new users still use Quest 2.0. The leaked Meta roadmap in March 2023
the cheaper headset. And late last month, the sold almost 20 million Quest headsets “Meta Quest 3S”, a name that was seen in an appearance three months earlier purporting the show the headset’s design. Then, in a Meta CTO video earlier this month, a headset that looked like the one shown was also Mark Zuckerberg told staff on the page.