The Best Vr Headsets For 2025

Read our afloat Meta Quest 3 VR headset review

Storage capacity: 128GB | Battery life: 2.2 hours | Field of view: 110 degrees (horizontal), 96 degrees (vertical) | Max refresh rate: 120Hz

The long-awaited follow-up to nan Quest 2 is an upgrade successful each respect: It’s much comfortable to wear, it has higher value screens and it has full-color mixed reality cameras, allowing you to spot nan existent world alongside virtual elements. While it’s much costly astatine $500, it’s besides a acold much tin headset than nan Quest 2 and nan caller Quest 3S, pinch hardware and optics that will support you happily immersed successful VR for years.

The Quest 3 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, which Meta says has double nan graphics powerfulness of nan Quest 2. That further powerfulness is noticeable successful games for illustration Red Matter 2, which characteristic updated textures that present an acquisition person to PC VR. The Quest 3’s caller displays tally astatine 2,064 by 2,208 pixels per eye, offering an moreover amended acquisition than nan PlayStation VR2. Its mixed reality cameras besides fto you easy spot nan existent world, successful lawsuit you request to quickly reply a matter aliases Slack message. And they alteration games that tin beryllium built astir your room.

What makes nan Quest 3 absorbing is that it offers much than conscionable coagulated VR: It besides gives you a glimpse astatine what a mixed reality early could be. While it’s not arsenic crisp aliases tin arsenic Apple’s Vision Pro, that’s understandable. And conscionable for illustration erstwhile Quest headsets, you tin besides plug it into a gaming PC for higher value VR experiences.

Read our afloat Apple Vision Pro M5 review

Storage capacity: Up to 1TB | Battery life: 2.5 hours | Field of view: 100 degrees | Max refresh rate: 120Hz

Apple’s first update for nan Vision Pro is fundamentally conscionable a spec bump, but it’s astatine slightest a motion that nan institution hasn’t forgotten astir its full spatial computing endeavour. It’s faster and much powerfulness efficient, acknowledgment to nan M5 chip, and it besides ships pinch a much comfortable Dual Knit Band that does a amended occupation of balancing specified a dense headset.

With its further power, nan M5 Vision Pro tin render 10 percent much pixels than nan original model, and it tin scope up to a faster 120Hz refresh complaint for smoother scrolling. I couldn’t spot a awesome quality successful our testing, but I tin corroborate its Micro OLED screens still look phenomenal. They’re crisp capable for reference matter connected websites and a mirrored Mac, positive tin besides standard to utmost heights for stunning Immersive Video content.

Given its precocious $3,500 value and constricted content, though, nan Vision Pro is still intelligibly not meant for emblematic consumers. Instead, for illustration nan original, it’s fundamentally conscionable a highly polished developer kit for group willing successful building visionOS apps. Apple diehards will apt get a footwear retired of it too, but practically astir group willing successful AR and VR are amended disconnected buying a Meta Quest 3 alongside a gaming PC.

Read our afloat Meta Quest 3S VR headset review

Storage capacity: 128GB, 256GB | Battery life: 2-3 hours | Field of view: 96 degrees | Max refresh rate: 120Hz

The Quest 3S is Meta’s latest entry-level VR headset, but don’t fto its reasonable $300 value fool you: It’s besides a singular accomplishment for nan company. It sports nan aforesaid Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 spot arsenic nan Quest 3, arsenic good arsenic a patient 8GB of RAM, allowing it to powerfulness nan aforesaid experiences arsenic its pricier sibling. It besides features Meta’s fantabulous Touch Plus controllers, which present coagulated mobility controls, arsenic good arsenic responsive joysticks and buttons.

The only awesome downside is that nan Quest 3S isn’t astir arsenic crisp arsenic nan Quest 3. It features nan aforesaid 1,830 by 1,920 pixel per oculus surface from nan Quest 2, while nan Quest 3's surface offers 30 percent much pixels (2,264 by 2,208 pixels per eye), to present a sharper and much realistic image.

VR newbies astir apt won’t announcement nan quality overmuch though, and that’s what really matters. The Quest 3S is conscionable arsenic comfortable arsenic nan Quest 3 to wear, and it tin easy entree nan aforesaid apps and games connected nan Meta Quest Store. There’s nary headphone jack either, but its built-in speakers present coagulated enveloping audio for games for illustration Maestro, and you could besides plug successful a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter, aliases conscionable brace wireless headphones.

The Quest 3S tin link to gaming PCs complete USB-C aliases wirelessly to play much aggravated VR experiences. It tin besides wirelessly watercourse your gameplay to Chromecast devices, aliases to AirPlay devices by mirroring nan Quest app from an iPhone. If you’re still holding onto nan Quest 2, aliases an original Quest, nan Quest 3S is precisely nan inexpensive upgrade you’ve been waiting for.

Read our afloat PlayStation VR2 headset review

Storage capacity: 128GB, 256GB | Battery life: 3 hours | Field of view: 110 degrees | Max refresh rate: 120Hz

The PS VR2 is 1 of nan champion headset we’ve tested. It offers dual 2K OLED HDR screens, efficaciously giving you 4K quality. It’s 1 of nan astir comfortable headsets around. And it has immoderate genuinely refreshing caller features, for illustration oculus search and headset haptics. (Yes, it tin virtually stone your noggin.) Best of all, nan PS VR2 delivers high-quality virtual reality without nan request for a $1,000+ gaming PC – each you request is simply a PlayStation 5.

Now, our proposal comes pinch a fewer caveats. At $550, nan PS VR2 is much costly than nan PS5 itself. And it’s unclear really quickly its crippled room will capable up. The first tally has only a fewer exclusives, for illustration Horizon VR and Gran Turismo 7, and we haven’t seen galore caller titles since then. But it’s still nan easiest measurement to acquisition high-end VR, and it’s a awesome upgrade complete nan original PS VR.

Read our afloat Valve Index VR kit review

Storage capacity: N/A | Battery life: 7 hours | Field of view: 108 degrees | Max refresh rate: 120Hz

Valve's Index kit remains 1 of nan champion high-end solutions connected nan marketplace that provides a genuinely immersive VR experience. For $999 you get nan Index headset, Valve's digit search controllers and 2 SteamVR guidelines stations. While we've seen higher-resolution headsets get successful nan past 2 years, it's still a very coagulated option, pinch a 1,440 by 1,600 pixel resolution, an eye-watering 144Hz refresh complaint and a monolithic 130-degree section of view. I'd gladly suffer a fewer pixels for nan Index’s smoother and much expansive screen, which are still acold beyond astir different user headsets.

As a SteamVR product, nan Index requires installing 2 sensors astatine other corners of your room. And of course, it's wired to your PC. But that clunkiness is worthy it for nan higher refresh complaint and much meticulous tracking. Sure, it's not arsenic easy to usage arsenic nan Quest 3S, but astatine this value range, we presume you'll suffer a spot of inconvenience to get a genuinely high-quality VR experience.

Valve's digit search controllers are awesome arsenic well, pinch a convenient strap that locks them onto your hands. They make playing Half-Life: Alyx consciousness for illustration a dream. It's unfortunate that different VR games haven't afloat taken advantage of nan digit search though.

Read our afloat Bigscreen Beyond VR headset review

Storage capacity: N/A | Battery life: 2 hours | Field of view: 102 degrees | Max refresh rate: 90Hz

Essentially an upgrade for nan Index, nan Beyond is simply a unsocial rotation connected a VR headset from Bigscreen, nan developer of a celebrated app for watching video successful VR. It looks much for illustration an oversized brace of goggles than a monolithic VR headset. The $999 Beyond is nan lightest VR action we’ve ever seen (it weighs a tad much than a platform of playing cards), and its Micro-OLED screens are crisp and connection near-perfect contrast. Unlike LCD screens, achromatic tin look genuinely achromatic pinch nan Beyond.

The downside, though, is that nan Bigscreen Beyond is expensive. It’s $999 connected its ain if you’re conscionable upgrading a Valve Index setup. If you’re starting from scratch, though, you’ll besides request to bargain 2 Steam VR guidelines stations and a brace of Index controllers. That adds up to a whopping $1,578.

The Bigscreen Beyond besides requires a civilization look cushion, which is built from a 3D facescan erstwhile you spot your order. Unfortunately, that makes it harder to stock than different headsets. There’s besides nary room for glasses, since it’s truthful slim. You tin bargain medicine lens inserts from Bigscreen for an further fee. And of course, you’ll person to unrecorded pinch a cablegram tethered to your PC, there’s nary of nan state of nan cordless Meta Quest headsets.

For each of its complexity, though, nan Bigscreen Beyond delivers nan astir immersive PC VR acquisition I’ve ever seen. Since it’s truthful light, you tin easy deterioration it for hours. Together pinch its glorious screens, it’s nan champion action for VR enthusiasts who don’t mind dealing pinch costs and complexity for existent immersion.