The Meta Quest 3 has a fantastic core experience, but its design has plenty of cost-cutting compromises to hit its $499 price tag — and Meta's official Quest 3 accessories are painfully expensive. Thankfully, there are great Quest 3 accessories from third parties for as low as $8 that will dramatically improve your experience, thanks to these Cyber Monday deals.
We built our list of the best Quest 3 accessories from third-party brands that we've tested and recommend ourselves, and many of them have solid Cyber Monday deals. Even if you bought them at full price, though, you'd probably still pay half of what the official Meta accessory would cost.
For example, why spend $130 on the official Quest 3 strap with battery pack, when you can get this comfortable YOGES battery head strap for $50, or $20 off, thanks to this current Cyber Monday deal? My VR-loving colleague Nick Sutrich called it the one accessory that the Quest 3 needs more than anything else.
If you can accept the Quest 3's short battery life and solely care about a comfort upgrade, the Zybervr head strap is our favorite Elite strap alternative, thanks to its second hinge point for a more versatile fit. Again, at this deal price, it's less than half the price of Meta's $70 Elite Strap.
The Soundcore VR P10 earbuds are the best Quest headphones on the market because they give you punchy wireless audio without Bluetooth latency; the USB-C dongle even has charging passthrough so you can use a battery pack. Meta sells a "Made for Meta" version of these earbuds with the same specs that cost $100; on Amazon, you can get the P10 version for nearly half that, and it feels much more reasonable.
One of our absolute favorite Quest 3 accessories is something you can't even get from the Meta store yet: proper controller straps with knuckle grips and a battery opening cover that makes it easier to swap new batteries in. This upgrade won't cost you much, either.
My final, most obvious recommendation is to snag a few sweat-wicking silicone covers from Amazon. Compared to Meta's $40 option, you can get five off-brand face covers for the same price — 43% off, thanks to Cyber Monday — and swap between them after each sweaty Quest 3 workout.
I could truly go on and on — many of the best Link cable alternatives are discounted, for example, and they already cost a lot less than Meta's official $79 cable — but you should get the gist here. However you want to augment your Quest 3, you can pay half price on a third-party alternative, or even less with a good Cyber Monday Quest accessory deal.
We just learned that the Quest 3 128GB costs nearly $500 to make, so Meta essentially can't discount them without selling at a loss. Meta's CTO also confirmed it'll sell at its current price for a long while to come. So essentially, these Cyber Monday accessory deals are the best you can hope for!
That's why the only good Cyber Monday deal is on the Quest 2, which is $50 off and comes with a $50 gift card. If you're okay with going last-gen, that headset is still decently reliable, though you'll probably want to just wait for the Quest 3 Lite at this point.
