this is the new meta Quest. [Applause] 3's high-quality mixed reality for $2.99. Hell yeah, I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Um, you know, when we built Quest 3, we delivered the first high-quality mainstream mixed reality experience where you can see the world around you, you can reach out and touch digital things as if they're right there. Um, Quest 3 is the best mixed reality device that you can buy today, and I'm really proud of it. But we don't just innovate to advance the state-of-the-art; we also build technology and innovate to bring the future to everyone. And we've been working on bringing the Quest 3 family to a lot more people. Quest 3's has the same defining features as Quest 3: high-resolution color mixed reality powered by the same processor, vivid pass-through, hand tracking feels natural, touch plus controllers for precision. You get the full range of experiences from Horizon OS, gaming, social, fitness, watching videos, productivity, and more. You know, we

optimized the whole system a lot. Uh, we swapped out the pancake lenses for Fels, and with all of that, we were able to drop the price by $200. Now, in the past year, we've made so many improvements and optimizations to the technical stack, to the effective resolution, to the latency, to a lot more, that all of the things that I just mentioned, mixed reality hand tracking software, is actually better in Quest 3s at $299 today than it was in Quest 3 when we launched it a year [Applause] ago. And of course, all of those software improvements have flowed through to the Quest 3 to make it even better. So, the bottom line here is that Quest 3 is the best family of mixed reality devices out there, period. So, whether you're looking to get started with the base Quest 3s, or if you want the top-of-the-line Quest 3 with 512 GB and 4K displays, which is now just $4.99, the 3 family, it's not just the

best value. It is the best product. [Applause] Available. All right, now let's check out how good this pass-through really is. Um, we got my friend Kenny back again wearing the 3s. Everything you're going to see up here is streamed from his headset live. This is what he is seeing. Yeah, it's sharp. All right, Kenny, what do we got? All right, now the first thing that you can see is that we have expanded the quality, the volume of content massively. Yeah, sorry to the dude next to him, live demo artifact. All right, um, you can now run everything from 2D mobile apps to remote desktop for PC, uh, to fully immersive experiences, all on one device. You can open screens, you can put them anywhere around you, you can have pretty much as many of them running as you want, um, you can put one on a wall if you want. I'm not sure if there's a wall that's in a close enough range that you can show it happens. [Applause] Um, there you go. I can't tell you how

many times Kenny has practiced this. All right, anyway, you got movies playing. I don't know where we are in the demo at this point, but the bottom line, I think we're in theater mode. All right, so for the best watching experience, you can take any of the screens, you can blow it up into a cinema, that cinema screen that fills the whole space. It's great for watching Netflix. You got Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, the new Twitch app. You can bring it anywhere you go, and you've got a giant screen that you can take anywhere. It's great for Xbox cloud gaming too. You get access to all these different titles wherever you are, and with spatial audio on Quest, you know, wherever you place the apps, that is where the sound is going to come from. Dolby Atmos is coming to Quest, so now you're going to be able to watch movies in full surround. It is pretty neat. [Applause] And we have also rebuilt all of our social apps for mixed reality too. We've

got all new Instagram and Facebook experiences to bring your feeds and your reels, uh, with you into mixed reality. A really nice interface, uh, so you can lean back, enjoy your content on nice big screens. Um, so, and there's a bunch more too. All right, we've been working with Microsoft, uh, to upgrade remote desktop soon. So now you're soon, you're going to be able to easily connect to any Windows 11 PC. You just look at the keyboard, and, uh, and you, and it'll start pairing. So if you want to work on a giant virtual display, or a bunch of virtual displays, or, you know, if you want to work on your projects without distractions, or with other people, you know, this is Quest, is going to be able to be a natural extension of your PC. So, so this is the path to building a general computing platform where it's not just games, although it's really good at that. Um, you're also going to be able to use it for apps, and watching videos, and doing all of the different things.

that you would do with a general-purpose computer. Quest is the full package.

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