{"id":795200,"date":"2026-10-07T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:58:09","slug":"the-meta-quest-3s-gets-a-rare-discount-during-october-prime-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795200\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Until the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/1006610\/best-amazon-october-prime-day-tech-deals-day-two\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon\u2019s October sale<\/a> later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for just $297.49 (usually $349.99) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Meta-Quest-3S-256GB-All-One\/dp\/B0F2GYMC8H\/?tag=theverge02-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goto.walmart.com\/c\/482924\/565706\/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMeta-Quest-3S-128GB-Dive-into-Mixed-Reality-Unreal-device-Unreal-price-All-In-One-Headset-Get-a-3-Month-Trial-of-Meta-Horizon-Included%2F17134772732\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbuy.7tiv.net\/c\/482924\/614286\/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fproduct%2Fmeta-quest-3s-128gb-the-walking-dead-saints-sinners-bundle-dive-into-virtual-reality-white%2FJ3LHRV8HL7\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Buy<\/a>. While the lenses and displays aren\u2019t quite as sharp as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23906313\/meta-quest-3-review-vr-mixed-reality-headset\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quest 3<\/a>, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is a much more reasonable price for casual VR gaming and movies. In other words, it\u2019s a big upgrade over the Quest 2. You\u2019ll also get three months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/meta-horizon-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon Plus<\/a>, which gives you access to a huge library of games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">If you buy the headset from Amazon, the deal also includes the \u201cCardboard Monkenaut\u201d cosmetic set for Gorilla Tag VR, as well as 2,000 \u201cShiny Rocks\u201d to spend on other in-game items. This popular multiplayer game is free to play on Quest headsets, and will have you chasing friends or matchmade players through the trees in a high-flying game of tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until the end of Amazon\u2019s October sale later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[979,786,42674,227,86,56,54,55,104804,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-795200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-deals","tag-gadgets","tag-prime-day","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-verge-shopping","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}