Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta's VR ambitions on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly pinned a launch window for the company's next major VR headset. In an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Zuckerberg said the device will be coming to Meta's Connect conference in October.
Zuckerberg outlined some key features of the new headset, including the ability to track your facial expressions and represent them on your virtual avatar. He again explained that he is focused on using VR as the ultimate expression of technology connecting people, such as facilitating eye contact in VR.
"When you're on a video call, you don't really feel like you're there with the person. For me, what VR unlocks is that it really convinces your brain that you you're here," he said. said.
These features line up with previous reveals and reports about Project Cambria, a VR headset project that Zuckerberg briefly talked about during Connect last year. Recently, Bloomberg published an article suggesting that the headset will be called Meta Quest Pro.
Whether it's called Project Cambria, Meta Quest Pro or something else, its price should be that of a high-end device.
At the end of July, Meta announced that the base configuration of the Quest 2 (the one with 128 GB of storage) would drop from an MSRP of $299 to $399 and that the most expensive model with 256 GB would drop from $399 at $499.
And over the past few months, various industry analysts have said Meta won't be able to sustain its practice of selling headsets at a loss, especially with a big competitor like Apple about to enter. the market.
So while we don't know how much this new headset will cost, you can bet it will be a bit more expensive than the Quest 2, either at its old or new price.
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta's VR ambitions on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly pinned a launch window for the company's next major VR headset. In an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Zuckerberg said the device will be coming to Meta's Connect conference in October.
Zuckerberg outlined some key features of the new headset, including the ability to track your facial expressions and represent them on your virtual avatar. He again explained that he is focused on using VR as the ultimate expression of technology connecting people, such as facilitating eye contact in VR.
"When you're on a video call, you don't really feel like you're there with the person. For me, what VR unlocks is that it really convinces your brain that you you're here," he said. said.
These features line up with previous reveals and reports about Project Cambria, a VR headset project that Zuckerberg briefly talked about during Connect last year. Recently, Bloomberg published an article suggesting that the headset will be called Meta Quest Pro.
Whether it's called Project Cambria, Meta Quest Pro or something else, its price should be that of a high-end device.
At the end of July, Meta announced that the base configuration of the Quest 2 (the one with 128 GB of storage) would drop from an MSRP of $299 to $399 and that the most expensive model with 256 GB would drop from $399 at $499.
And over the past few months, various industry analysts have said Meta won't be able to sustain its practice of selling headsets at a loss, especially with a big competitor like Apple about to enter. the market.
So while we don't know how much this new headset will cost, you can bet it will be a bit more expensive than the Quest 2, either at its old or new price.
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta's VR ambitions on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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