The Meta Quest 3 now has a pretty neat new feature that allows users to reduce power consumption and improve battery life. When you’re using an app that’s very resource intensive, Quest headsets will now alert you and prompt you to enable battery saving mode.
This should help lower your electricity bill and extend the remaining battery life of your Quest. But you may be wondering: Why would someone enable Low Power Mode and cut off power to an app that clearly needs it?
That’s the beauty of it, it doesn’t just limit processing power. Battery Saver also limits the frame rate, applies fixed foveatized rendering, reduces brightness, and lowers the rendering resolution. A pretty clever way to extend battery life without sacrificing too much performance, don’t you think?
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Not only do they limit processing power, but they also combine other power-saving methods to reduce overall power consumption. This kind of smart design gives me high hopes for the AI-powered AR smart glasses that Meta has been working on for years.
Meta was released in XR (Augmented Reality) industry and has therefore gained a lot of experience in developing XR hardware. That is why the Quest headsets are some of the best VR headsets ever made and why Meta’s Quest OS platform is made available to third parties.
It also helps that Meta often has great deals, like the Meta Quest August sale that’s going on right now.
