Meta’s next VR headset will launch in October - Ars Technica

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Project Cambria —

The headset is apt Project Cambria, and it volition debut astatine Connect.

- Aug 26, 2022 4:25 p.m. UTC

Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta's VR ambitions connected  The Joe Rogan Experience.

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta's VR ambitions connected The Joe Rogan Experience.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publically pinned a motorboat model for the company's adjacent large VR headset. In an interrogation connected The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Zuckerberg said the instrumentality is coming astatine Meta's Connect league successful October.

Zuckerberg described immoderate cardinal features of the caller headset—most notably the quality to way your facial expressions and correspond them connected your virtual avatar. He again explained that his absorption is connected utilizing VR arsenic the eventual look of exertion connecting people—for example, by facilitating oculus interaction wrong VR.

"When you're connected a video call, you don't really consciousness similar you're determination with the person. To me, what virtual world unlocks is that it truly convinces your encephalon that you're there," helium said.

These features acceptable erstwhile reveals and reports astir Project Cambria, a VR headset task Zuckerberg discussed concisely astatine past year's Connect. Recently, Bloomberg ran a communicative suggesting that the headset will be called the Meta Quest Pro.

Whether it's called Project Cambria, Meta Quest Pro, oregon thing else, it's expected to beryllium priced arsenic a high-end device.

In precocious July, Meta announced that the Quest 2's basal configuration (the 1 with 128GB of storage) would leap from a $299 MSRP to $399 and that the much costly exemplary with 256GB would leap from $399 to $499.

And implicit the past respective months, assorted manufacture analysts person said that Meta won't beryllium capable to prolong its signifier of selling headsets astatine a loss, particularly with a large rival similar Apple poised to participate the market.

So portion we don't cognize however overmuch this caller headset volition cost, you tin stake it volition beryllium rather a spot pricier than the Quest 2 astatine either its aged oregon caller price.

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