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Meta Quest 3S vs. Quest 2: New brain and eyes, old tricks

Quest 2 owners will find the Meta Quest 3S vs. Quest 2 are nearly twins once you put them on, but not everything is the same.

For Full-color, high-resolution mixed reality Next-gen Snapdragon chip with 33% more RAM New cloth strap design Dual flood LEDs for low-light gaming Upgraded Touch Plus controllers Frustratingly, Meta chose to drop the 3.5mm headphone jack from the Quest 2 and 3 in the 3S; your only options are to use the built-in speakers or wireless earbuds with a USB-C receiver that allows for charging passthrough in case you have a battery pack. In theory, this would let you play games in dimly-lit rooms with no fear that the headset will fail to track your actions; we could test this in the normally-lit Meta demo space, so you'll have to wait for our review to see how well this works.

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