{"id":1003436,"date":"2026-04-17T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003436"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:34:20","slug":"meta-to-raise-quest-vr-headset-prices-in-us-on-rising-component-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/meta-to-raise-quest-vr-headset-prices-in-us-on-rising-component-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to raise Quest VR headset prices in US on rising component costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Thursday it would increase the prices of its virtual reality headsets from April 19 in the United States due to rising costs of memory chips. <\/p>\n<p>Its entry-level Quest 3S headset with 128 gigabytes of storage will now cost $349.99, compared with $299.99 earlier, the Facebook parent \u200csaid. The \u2060price of \u2060its higher-end Quest 3 headset with 512 gigabytes of storage will increase by $100 to $599.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Thursday it would increase the prices of its virtual reality headsets from April 19 in the United States due to rising costs of memory chips. Its entry-level Quest 3S headset with 128 gigabytes of storage will now cost $349.99, compared with $299.99 earlier, the Facebook parent \u200csaid. The \u2060price of \u2060its higher-end Quest 3 headset with 512 gigabytes of storage will increase by $100 to $599.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}