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The Quest is a really curious piece of technology. I wouldn't recommend buying one, but see if you can find the opportunity to try one; the VR experience for $300-400 is pretty damn impressive. The differences between the first and second revisions are also quite interesting, especially since the Quest 2 was designed to sell at a lower price point, before inflation drove the price back up. Furthermore, the lens on the Quest 1 is a blisteringly bright 90hz OLED display, whereas the Quest uses a 120hz LCD panel. A really curious side-grade that still has people arguing over which version is better.

The software experience is middling (pretty bad if you use any online services whatsoever), but the quality of the hardware for the price is nearly impeccable. Having tried both models, I think I still prefer the muted footprint of the Quest 1, and I'm holding out for a nice replacement OS someday so I can use it as a purely tethered headset.

It seems like a weird move to increase the cost of the Quest 2 from $300 to $400 if a successor is coming out soon. Don't companies normally put the "old" or soon to be old version of a product on sale to clear out inventory and avoid buyer's remorse?

I wonder if they're trying to ground consumers on a new price because the new one is going to be in the Index price range compared to the affordable Quest 2

Cambria isn’t a successor to the Quest 2. It’s a new product tier above it. The two lines will coexist, and Zuckerberg has specifically called out that Cambria will be significantly more expensive.

In that sense , the Quest 2 will appear like a bargain relative to the much more expensive Cambria line

Is it possible to jailbreak a quest 2 and "deMeta" it, and then using it as a normal windows VR headset? If the hardware of this new headset is good for a great price I'd like to do that.