Meta Quest 4: Everything We Know About the Next Quest (and Everything We Don't)

Let me set the ground rules before the speculation starts, because there is a lot of it. Meta has not announced a Quest 4. There is no official name, no spec sheet, no price, and no release date. What there is, instead, is a thick file of leaks, internal memos, supply chain reports, and one on-record comment from the executive who owns the roadmap. This piece is our standing tracker for all of it. We will update it as the picture sharpens, and we will keep every claim labeled so you always know what is solid and what is someone on the internet guessing.

Two things have changed since we last wrote about Meta's plans. The headset a lot of outlets expected in late 2026 has clearly slipped, and Meta has reframed the whole project around two devices instead of one. If you want the back story, our earlier coverage of how Meta is building the Quest 4 around a smart-glasses form factor and CTO Andrew Bosworth's pushback on the "Quest 4 is dead" story covers the design ethos and the roadmap drama. This tracker pulls everything else into one place.

When will the Quest 4 come out

Start with the one quote that is genuinely confirmed. Speaking on the record, Bosworth said, "I think it's officially leaked we've got two devices on the roadmap that we're super excited about coming out over the course of a period of time." That is his own phrasing, not a journalist's paraphrase, and it is the closest thing to an official acknowledgement that something is coming. Confirmed.

Everything past that quote is reported, not confirmed. The consensus among outlets that track Reality Labs leaks, led by UploadVR with The Gadgeteer in agreement, now points the gaming-focused Quest 4 to a window of H2 2027 or later, with a separate ultralight mixed reality headset penciled in around H1 2027. Nothing is expected to ship in 2026. Reported. So if you are waiting for a Quest 4 reveal at a fall showcase this year, the evidence says you will be disappointed.

The "two devices" split is where confirmed and reported diverge, so read it carefully. Bosworth confirmed two devices exist. The interpretation that one is a gaming Quest 4 and the other is an ultralight tethered headset is journalists' reporting layered on top of his quote, not something Meta has stated outright. Treat the split as reported and the timing as reported, not gospel.

The codename trail

If you have tried to follow this saga, the codenames have probably given you whiplash, so here is the consolidated version. Two 2026-era candidates, codenamed Pismo Low (the standard model) and Pismo High (the premium one), were reportedly shelved around mid-2025 when Meta reallocated resources. Later reporting ties the gaming-first successor to a new codename, Griffin. Reported. Separately, the ultralight mixed reality headset has surfaced under several codenames, with Puffin, Loma, and Phoenix all cited across different reports. That device reportedly offloads battery and compute to a pocket-sized tethered puck. Reported.

One distinction is worth burning into memory, because aggregators keep mangling it. The roughly 110-gram weight figure that floats around belongs to the ultralight tethered headset, with its processing moved to an external puck. That is rumor, and it is not the Quest 4. The Quest 4 itself has a separate, more conservative weight ambition.

What it will be: design and weight

The throughline across every credible report is weight. The central design goal for the next Quest is a form factor much closer to smart glasses than to the current Quest 3, which weighs 515 grams with its strap. That is reported, and it lines up with the smart-glasses design ethos we covered in April. A sub-300-gram target has been attributed specifically to the Quest 4, and again, do not merge that with the 110-gram tethered headset. They are two different devices with two different weight stories. Rumor on the sub-300g number.

For roadmap color, file this one under confirmed but adjacent. Meta hired Alan Dye, Apple's longtime head of human interface design, as Chief Design Officer to lead a new creative studio inside Reality Labs, reporting to Bosworth, with a start around the end of December 2025. That is real and confirmed. It is also a separate event from the ex-Apple industrial designers our April piece covered, and reporting frames Dye's remit as AI-era product and interface design across Meta's devices, not as the person sketching the Quest 4 chassis. Useful context, not a spec source.

Display and specs

Here is the freshest material in the whole file, and it is the reason this tracker exists. Meta's next Quest is reported to return to OLED after years of LCD, specifically OLED microdisplays, with panels supplied by BOE's BMOT division and Seeya. The original sourcing is OLED-Info from December 2025, with the deeper specifics behind its Pro paywall. The supplier names and the OLED-microdisplay direction are citable as reported. That is it. The fuller technical breakdown is locked up, so do not let anyone sell you the rest as fact.

And the rest is exactly what is circulating. Claims of a 0.9-inch micro-OLED panel, motorized automatic IPD adjustment, iris scanning, and eye tracking are aggregator-level specifics not firmly attributed to a single primary report. Rumor, all of it. The lens approach is even messier. Some reports list pancake lenses plus rear-mounted components for weight balance, while others argue the Quest 4 may keep aspheric hybrid lenses because pancake optics fight an aggressive weight target. The sources actively contradict each other, so the honest answer is that the lens question is open. Rumor on both sides.

Price outlook

This is the part nobody at Meta wants to say out loud, but the supporting facts are concrete. In April 2026, Meta raised prices on existing Quest hardware for the first time, effective April 20: the Quest 3 (512GB) went from $499.99 to $599.99, the Quest 3S 128GB from $299.99 to $349.99, and the 256GB from $399.99 to $449.99. Confirmed. Meta attributed the hikes directly to the memory chip crunch, noting that the surge in component prices, memory chips specifically, is hitting nearly every category of consumer electronics. Confirmed.

The macro backdrop is not improving. DRAM contract prices are forecast to keep climbing steeply through 2026, with TrendForce projecting consumer DRAM up roughly 45 to 50 percent quarter over quarter in Q2, driven by AI datacenters crowding out consumer memory supply. Confirmed. On top of that, a leaked December 2025 internal memo describes the rebooted Quest 4 as a gaming flagship built to "significantly improve unit economics," language widely read as the end of heavy hardware subsidies. Reported. What it does not say is a number. Figures like an $800 starting price are speculation, not Meta-confirmed. Rumor.

The competitive ceiling has also reset. Samsung's Galaxy XR launched November 4, 2025 at $1,799, and Valve's Steam Frame is adding standalone and PCVR pressure with pricing still unconfirmed. The defensible read of all this evidence: a meaningfully more expensive, less subsidized Quest 4 in 2027 or later. Reported direction, not an official price.

Should you wait

For most buyers, no. The Quest 4 is unannounced, the credible window is 2027 at the earliest, and the price is trending up rather than down. The Quest 3 at $599 and the Quest 3S at $349 are the headsets you can actually buy and use today, and they are not going to feel obsolete the week a successor finally ships. If you have been holding off purely for the Quest 4, you are holding off for a device with no date and a rising price tag.

If you are a hardware enthusiast who wants the lightest, sharpest thing Meta can build, then waiting is rational, just budget for 2027 and a likely premium. For everyone else, our best VR headsets guide covers what is worth buying right now, and our upcoming VR headsets tracker keeps tabs on everything else due before Meta's next Quest arrives. We will keep this page current as the leaks firm up. Nothing here is official until Meta says it is, and Meta has not said much.