Forbes June 3, 2025
Andrew Williams

Meta is has sidelined a direct Meta Quest 4 successor to today’s Quest 3, with plans to instead release a lower-weight headset next year.

This is according to UploadVR, which says it has corroboration from “multiple sources.”

It’s bad news for those who love the Meta Quest series as it is. But it is also probably not as bad as it sounds.

The suggestion is Meta has cancelled an existing Meta Quest 4-style project, not that Meta will never make another headset in that style.

It means Meta next plans instead to release a headset that keeps its power and computing brains in an external housing, a puck, in order to keep the weight of the headset itself low.

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