We compare work, hand tracking, games, and playing videos in both headsets, and also discuss how shareable they are. Which wins?
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Meta Quest 3 vs Apple Vision Pro: Which One Is Better, and for What?
0:00 Intro
0:59 Fit
1:36 Pass-Through Cameras
4:22 Hand-Tracking
6:48 Gaming
10:10 Watching Videos
14:05 Working In Mixed Reality
16:05 Sharing
18:10 Final Thoughts
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@CNET
February 23, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi all. Unfortunately we had to trim a short section about watching Movies and TV shows on the AVP out of this video because a trailer for Dune that was capured with the Vision Pro kept getting flagged by YouTube for copyright infringment. We apologize that we could not include this portion in the Versus video. If anyone has any insight on how to best avoid this in the future, please reply to this commment. We have reached out to YouTube for guidance and clarification. Thanks for watching!
@CNET
February 23, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi all. Unfortunately we had to trim a short section about watching Movies and TV shows on the AVP out of this video because a trailer for Dune that was captured with the Vision Pro, kept getting flagged by YouTube for copyright infringment. We apologize that we could not include this portion in the Versus video. If anyone has any insight on how to best avoid this in the future, please reply to this commment. We have reached out to YouTube for guidance and clarification. Thanks for watching!
@davidwong7283
February 24, 2024 at 12:32 am
You should watch the review by ” dope or nope ” channel . it was a brutal assessment of the marketing gimmickry used by apple to market the vision pro , yet mostly was fake . the funniest i reckon was the part that they tell u to do Yoga & meditation with the vision pro ….” eyes wide open ” ….hahaha. try meditating like this …yea try it . its weird .
@Berlintosouth
February 24, 2024 at 3:40 am
The hand tracking kicks in if you understand how to use it. It’s explained in the tutorial. Clap both controllers against each other and hand tracking is active. Please do the tutorial first, instead of sharing wrong information with the audience. The way you’ve told this it seems like it’s some kind of random at which point you can start using the hand tracking.
Regarding resolution: you can bump this up as much as you want with a specific app. Then everything looks crisp. Please do your research before.
And at the beginning you said AVP is for work and watching movies and Q3 is games and fitness …social is missing and ofc MOVIES!!! It has all the apps you need, even big screen one of the best apps ever made for this.
@lightstorm6652
February 24, 2024 at 4:32 am
Soon Quest 3 can track hands and controllers at the same time, so no need for clapping the controllers at each other to activate hand tracking.
@tadmikowsky7520
February 24, 2024 at 9:06 am
Yeah the yt flagging is getting outta control 😔. All good tho, vid put me to sleep regardless of the missing content
@girlieforgod
February 24, 2024 at 1:21 pm
You guys could hire a group to make a set of scenes in different lighting conditions. Original scenes won’t cause copyright issues. It will also create a uniformity in visuals testing allowing better benchmarking.
Y’all could go even further by creating a channel across app stores with this content that allows you to add uniformity to testing those functions as well. Slap the CNET logo in the corner of the videos and let other reviewers use them too.
@hossamgebeily
February 23, 2024 at 5:25 pm
The Vision Pro has to sell for way less. $3.5k is ridiculous.
@msg360
February 23, 2024 at 5:28 pm
I just want to defend Quest 3 on video Quality for a moment. yes, the apple vision pro video quality is better because its 4k and has dobly Vision for movies. the Quest 3 is pretty good for the price and an improvement over other VR headsets before it. it have over 2k resolution each eye. and if you use Big screen app or skybox , you can watch any movie in a theater with a 100-300 feet screen like you’re actually at the theaters just like on the vision pro, and the quality is really good , so you can use it not just for youtube video like what the guy says in this video, also you can play your own video files in theater mode , unlike on the vision pro you can only play what each app has like Apple TV
@richiebillionz9687
February 23, 2024 at 5:29 pm
I can agree with this VR will change the Music Industry also in the future
@paolorossi6008
February 23, 2024 at 5:34 pm
I am not buying either one of those. I’m waiting for the quest 4 pro. Should be available just before Christmas.
@MaxPowers1245
February 23, 2024 at 5:36 pm
your mum doesn’t look very impressed
@c.daubz.5386
February 23, 2024 at 5:37 pm
Vision Pro is 1st gen early adopter beta & developer device to further the tech & software for future generations of the hardware that will be smaller lighter & cheaper for mass adoption
@jim-lu7il
February 23, 2024 at 5:56 pm
Just our eyes alone have motion blur.
The Meta Q 3 is cartoons and Apple
is real world. Very close. The quality
is apples level. Meta can’t match.
@leo_nidas
February 23, 2024 at 6:17 pm
You covered everything, but the one thing that matters to me, is watching content: movies, shows, etc. There isn’t a way, today, for the Quest 3 to give you the experience the Vision Pro does. I get it, the Vision Pro is way more expensive, and the Quest 3 has some options, but other than connect the Quest e to your laptop or computer, there isn’t an app where you can stream high-resolution movies or shows. There’s Netflix and other very limited apps that can be 480p or 720p. YouTube with YouTube content goes up to 4K, but if you want to watch movies on YouTube, the resolution is 480p; it’s freaking ridiculous! I have a Quest 3 and it’s the only thing I would like to do on in, watch movies and shows I’ve purchased in 4K.
@farhoodensun2649
February 23, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Meta needs to quadruple quest 3 processing power and step up in display, camera ,and sensor quality. That $999 Quest 4 or Quest pro 2 will be a real competition. Just saying “well it’s cheaper” is not enough.
@pabloferreira1451
February 23, 2024 at 6:23 pm
Quest 3, best device. Period.
@troke7120
February 23, 2024 at 6:25 pm
Been really enjoying my quest 3. Games are amazing, meta horizon worlds is fun and media looks great. Best $600 I’ve spent in some time
@waleedsharif618
February 23, 2024 at 6:42 pm
My question: compare pancake lenses in these two, which one got better one ? Which one got better sweetspot ?
@hcson5091
February 23, 2024 at 6:44 pm
in fact
More than 80% of quests are in storage.
10% only occasionally use it to watch adult videos.
10% of quests are actually used…
So, although it has sold a lot, the Meta App Store is not active and Meta is losing money.
If Vision Pro is not as successful as expected…
The development of the VR industry is slowing down…
I don’t know how long the meta’s deficit will last.
@krzychuwr
February 23, 2024 at 6:50 pm
As someone working in VR space for a while now – really good comparison of the headsets! I think you managed to show pretty much all the biggest strengths and weaknesses of both, nice job 🙂
@anthonyvincent42
February 23, 2024 at 6:54 pm
Meta-quest makes me a little nauseous. Apple Vision Pro doesn’t at all. And I know it’s just a matter of time before they have spatial gaming on the same level as meta-. All of those companies are just gonna port it over after they tweak it for the Apple vision, Pro, and add better graphics, so I think it’s only fair to review these guys. Let’s say six months from now. Because as far as watching movies. I’ve never had a better experience ever than Apple Vision Pro. And NBA games are so much fun to watch.
@mr.joshmateo
February 23, 2024 at 6:56 pm
If you are swapping to hand controls on the quest, tap the controllers together twice to turn them off so it looks for hand tracking. If the controllers are on and within vision of the quest it will always try to default to controllers.
@angelaliang3656
February 23, 2024 at 7:04 pm
Whoever able to afford and apple family, they’ll still go to apple pro vision.
@droningoninscotland6124
February 23, 2024 at 7:09 pm
one of them is a vr/ar headset. the other is a $3500 fashion accessory that barely gets used for what its designed for
@vrmartin202
February 23, 2024 at 7:10 pm
Was not going to spend the money on VP so I bought a Quest 3. Primary interest: remote into my Mac, read language-learning content on a browser, and use the Mondly langauge learning app. Unfortunately, the display quality was not sufficient for the first two items. The Mondly app was fascinating but buggy, and the hand control features of the Quest so imprecise and unreliable, they were not worth the trouble. It was a great learning experience, but I did not regret returning the Quest 3 and getting a refund. Still won’t spend the fortune for a VP.
@JoseTheRover
February 23, 2024 at 7:15 pm
It’s better because it’s cheaper? Come on lol… I guess a Camry is better than a Phantom because it’s cheaper? Is the M3 chip better than the M3 Max too? I mean the logic isn’t there.
@alexanderahmed1199
February 23, 2024 at 7:27 pm
What a pathetic review😂
@remymartin15
February 23, 2024 at 7:49 pm
I wonder if AR/VR glasses is like flying cars. Keep saying it’ll be that soon but will it actually?
@MeNoOther
February 23, 2024 at 8:12 pm
Compare the Apple Vision Pro to Microsoft Hololens 2
Though with Microsoft and Meta merger, it looks like the Metaquest 4 is a Quest-Hololens product
@drzoggwax
February 23, 2024 at 8:18 pm
But can it run Crysis?
@HAMMABR0
February 24, 2024 at 7:06 am
Double tap the controllers together to switch to hand tracking. Works 95 percent of the time. But you can also turn the auto track sensitivity. On the MQ3
@engmatz
February 24, 2024 at 7:14 am
4k per eye and support hdr10 and dolby vision in Vision Pro
@sabbirhossainsagar
February 24, 2024 at 9:26 am
meta should just add better resolution and better camera.. maybe add sumsang’s zoom camera too.. so we see moon using meta quest..
@ambrose306
February 24, 2024 at 10:05 am
quest 3 is better
@Andy-xd7ng
February 24, 2024 at 10:58 am
I just got a quest 3 due to the hype Vision Pro caused for these vr headsets and believe it or not Zucks video also sold me…. I have been using immersed and skybox vr for my movie files and you can’t see pixels at all it’s a great experience …. All I had to do was get android file transfer and connect the quest 3 with a usbc cable to my mac and voila all my files are synced and movie watching is phenomenal… I like the quest 3 build quality as well …. Is small and light and the plastic feels premium…. 4k is just too much for a Vision Pro that can basically only do many safari windows all over your space…. Good video thou!
@FFCOACHDAN
February 24, 2024 at 11:28 am
Respectfully disagree. Outside of price I believe the AVP is the overall superior device. I have the VP & my son as the meta quest, if looking solely for a cost effective gaming device sure MQ3, but for entertainment(movies/music)/sports viewing and multi-tasking the VP is incredible now and only going to get better. Watching Avatar on the Disney App in 3D w/ a custom immersive background is better than the movies!
@jakejoyride
February 24, 2024 at 11:41 am
What about OLED burnin on vision pro?
@AnotherOfficeDay
February 24, 2024 at 11:46 am
You can not read a text in phone from quest 3 as well as on Apple. I’m not saying that makes it worth getting, but I have the quest 3 and the reality of what the pass through looks like compared to all the early influencer reviews made me have a bad taste in my mouth with the quest 3.
@rtorcato
February 24, 2024 at 11:49 am
Who wants a spyware company on their face?
@geoms6263
February 24, 2024 at 12:44 pm
cand you watch youtube 360 or 3d from youtube with Vision pro? What about Meta?
@djundaground2007
February 24, 2024 at 12:59 pm
It’s funny the Quest have been out for years soon as Apple come out with their headset, VR is amazing SMH 🤦
@MasudRana-ft4tq
February 24, 2024 at 1:34 pm
IPhone vs Xiaomi. you should say Xiaomi is best because it can do same things like iPhone 🤓
@mhnoni
February 24, 2024 at 2:14 pm
Buy APV, test it, then refund it and get Q3.
@berntpan
February 24, 2024 at 3:36 pm
Screen recording spatial videos do not do that feature any justice. On the screen recordings they just look like regular videos with a blur on the borders, but in the headsets, you truly feel immersed in 3D.
@McWookieVR
February 24, 2024 at 3:37 pm
Quest 3 wins 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@McWookieVR
February 24, 2024 at 3:37 pm
Thanks apple 🍎 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@d_oni6438
February 24, 2024 at 4:17 pm
It seems like if you’re looking for quality vision pro is the way
@mrhomely
February 24, 2024 at 4:22 pm
For the price of AVP you could get the MQ3 and a very powerful PC to go along with it
@robhingston
February 24, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Visual pro needs to get more apps
meta quest needs to get better software
@robhingston
February 24, 2024 at 6:37 pm
I like bigscreen app with meta quest
@minhdo2896
February 24, 2024 at 7:04 pm
If quest was 3500, would you still pick it as the winner?
@bsharp3281
February 24, 2024 at 7:07 pm
OMG, I had the coolest dream last night where I was hanging out on my computer desktop. I was looking at the icons…thinking about which I’d like to launch. I sat there in real time…staring…
Come to think of it, what a boring dream.
Hey, I’ve got a paradigm shifting idea! Let’s make a simulation of my boring dream!!
VR is awesome but spatial computing is never going to be popular – ever.
@CwikTV
February 24, 2024 at 7:12 pm
Quest pro 2 is going annihilate the industry when it comes
@jjjurgensen454
February 24, 2024 at 7:33 pm
So the gist of the video kind of seems like yeah you can do things in the quest three that you can do in the Vision Pro but it really just isn’t as good. I heard you say that multiple times the question is whether or not you want to pay the extra 3000 to get that better experience.
@user-qb3sz3lr2e
February 24, 2024 at 10:46 pm
This review is biased. There is clearly a lean towards Meta in the dialogue. To be honest, these headsets are not equally comparable, Meta has years of consumers data and research while Apple have just entered the market, it’s clear that there will be differences and the journalist in this content would seem to take on the role as a poor sales persons pitch. Just Saying.
@skyhigh1489
February 25, 2024 at 12:25 am
Why does people keep using the small flat menu of the Q3 like it was the only one… THERE IS AN OTHER TYPE OF MENU SCREEN WAY BETTER… Please know your tech before reviewing…
@darrionsmith3220
February 25, 2024 at 2:36 am
Watching this on my Meta Quest 3
@darrionsmith3220
February 25, 2024 at 2:42 am
Immersed is dope & I like it a lot, I use 4-5 screens from my Macbook. My work website, youtube music, iMessage, Slack, and youtube. Im waiting on Immersed 4k visor headset.
@400_billion_suns
February 25, 2024 at 3:15 am
The Quest 3 is a fantastic product even without considering how much less expensive it is. The AVP is a tech demo in its current state. The Quest 3 is a mature product & ecosystem that can do more.
@kevinbailey8827
February 25, 2024 at 12:33 pm
Calling AVP a “tech demo” is pithy, but not really accurate. The AVP is a first gen product, but it’s more like the first gen iPad than the first gen iPhone.
With the iPhone you got what they chose to give you in terms of apps. There was some freedom in that you could browse the “real” internet (though not sites that required Flash or other plug-ins, which was a big deal because the coolest sites used plug-ins). And the music app used your own music.
With the iPad, there was already an App Store for the iPhone, and the apps for the iPhone would almost all run on the iPad. So while the iPad initially had a small selection of native apps, it had a huge library of compatible apps.
That’s where Vision Pro is now. It’s useable. It’s impressive. It has a huge library of compatible apps and a growing library of native apps. And it is part of a very mature ecosystem.
@silverstaar69
February 25, 2024 at 3:36 am
the apple fanboys will pay an awful lot just to watch a movie or sent a mail
@c2chung
February 25, 2024 at 4:30 am
The Apple is garbage for the price.
@larscwallin
February 25, 2024 at 5:25 am
Imagine next gen Quest. It’s going to be reeeally interesting. Might be hard for Apple to catch up in this form factor. At least until they release the non-pro version.
@AhsanZafar
February 25, 2024 at 5:27 am
perfect representation of how to not make comparison videos
@dr_emmz
February 25, 2024 at 6:14 am
Nice video, but why is it that almost no YouTuber talks about this when comparing the Vision Pro to Meta Quest, why is it that we don’t talk about the social space, like VR chat and VR cinema and other vr experiences that can be shared together with people in different places , where we can do things together, share experiences together, see other people’s funny looking avatar, over 20 people entering the same vr cinema together talking to each other while watching movie, I feel Meta understands what a vr or ar should be more than Apple, and you guys say nothing about it despite the fact that you are fully aware and even the ones that say it, just casually Breeze past it
@kevinbailey8827
February 25, 2024 at 10:47 am
It’s definitely a different approach. Apple wants you to be in the physical space you’re already in, and interacting with the people who are physically near you. Meta wants you to be interacting with people who aren’t necessarily close to you physically.
I think the two approaches will converge, and you’ll be able to watch a movie on Vision Pro with someone, and look over and see their persona, and even have a conversation with them while you watch the movie even though they’re not actually with you.
Still, Apple will lean into their “Spatial Computing” vision. They’re okay with disappointing people who understand “what a vr or ar should be”, if it brings in people who don’t care about that. The original iPhone was a “smart phone” that smart phone users derided as not very smart. A finger is a poor substitute for the precision of a stylus. How can you call yourself a “smart” phone if you don’t even have cut and paste? And so on.
@DuudeWhatDoesMineSay
February 25, 2024 at 7:04 am
Considering the ginormous price difference I would’ve like the reviewer to take that more into account. I.E. ‘is this experience six times better than the Meta Quest 3?’
@thablackcobragaming
February 25, 2024 at 9:31 am
👍🏾Great comparison I wholeheartedly agree. I wanted to make a comparison video, but I wanted to wait for more seasoned experts to agree with my opinion, so thank you. Well said.
@GattoH1
February 25, 2024 at 9:39 am
Small correction. You can open up multiple Android apps from unknown sources. once you click back to the main app in example Immersed they disappear but reading open. just click home again and they pop up. You can have three Android open like so at the same time.
@Not-A-Woke-Liberal
February 25, 2024 at 10:56 am
Can’t trust anything from Facebook
@captmrgn7040
February 25, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Judging from the size of that gut, I’d say the workout apps for Quest3 aren’t working too well 😉
@okee63
February 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Saying mq3 does what vp does means nothing. Say your looking at cars one a Porsche the other a used Yugo. They both drive have brakes transmissions windows all the same stuff. But the Yugo is much cheaper. Which would you buy with a lottery win? In addition developers haven’t had enough time to take advantage of vp’s capabilities. In a couple of years we’ll know just how good the vp is or isn’t.
@jobutl
February 25, 2024 at 12:52 pm
For me the downside of the Quest 3 is that it is made by Meta (Facebook) and I don’t trust them with my data. I will never have a Meta account so Quest 3 is a no-go for me no matter how good it is.
@jeremyryandegraw
February 25, 2024 at 1:06 pm
Why does this person have a mask on whilst VR gaming? Hard thumbs down and avoid.
@theo5675
February 25, 2024 at 1:11 pm
This ain’t a real cnet prize fight without Brian tong! I demand a rematch!
@muhammadtalhabinzia
February 25, 2024 at 1:30 pm
While mentioning pass through you failed to mention the Vision Pro latency is 3-4 times lower (faster) than Quest 3!
@carlstanford7607
February 25, 2024 at 1:36 pm
The Vision Pro ironically lacks a vision of who it is really for. It really missed out not shipping with fantastic fitness software. It is technically superior in some areas but the UI is basic as a productivity machine. It doesn’t have games. It’s priced way beyond mass market acceptable levels without a compulsive reason to buy it. Apple just threw it out there without knowing who it was for. The quest is just for niche people. It doesn’t have the mass market appeal that Apple products can reach.
@BobbieGWhiz
February 25, 2024 at 2:04 pm
I just bought a Quest 3 while waiting for the Vision Pro to become more affordable. Gaming is great on the Q3, but interacting with the interface is very clumsy (it feels like a 1.0 OS to me). I constantly have to re-center the view. I can’t read my iPhone in pass through. No availability of most of the streaming channels on Q3. Also, text is not very crisp so reading is not pleasurable. But for now it’s very, very good for gaming. Thanks.
@ninamatthews8747
February 25, 2024 at 3:33 pm
I just wanna be able to play beat saber in ar but I don’t think you can, 😢
@TaiwanTeddy
February 25, 2024 at 8:32 pm
That Racket Club game looks fun. I can’t find it on the Meta store.