With the vacations quick approaching, ‘tis the season for corporations to disclose all of the shiny new devices they need displaying up on want lists. In the present day is Meta’s flip, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipated to disclose all the main points on Challenge Cambria (rumored to be referred to as the Meta Quest Professional)—its subsequent era digital actuality headset—at its Meta Join convention. Anybody can tune in to observe the occasion when it streams beginning at 1 PM ET immediately.
A yr in the past, Fb revealed a significant rebranding, with the firm altering its identify to Meta and making a significant push in the direction of realizing the metaverse: a considerably obscure and buzzwordy time period for a digital actuality platform the place individuals can play video games, store, work, and work together with one another, all whereas carrying a VR headset, just like the Meta Quest 2.
Regardless of a big $100 value bump introduced for the Meta Quest 2 again in July, the headset stays one of the crucial widespread digital actuality options out there to customers, promoting virtually 15 million items since its debut in 2020. However two years is an eternity for VR {hardware} to go unchanged, because the definition of digital actuality endlessly morphs and evolves. That’s why Meta has been teasing its Quest 2 follow-up over the previous yr. Codenamed Challenge Cambria, however rumored to formally be referred to as the Meta Quest Professional, it may considerably exceed $800.
We’ll know for sure how Meta plans to additional form the metaverse beginning at 1pm EST immediately as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for a gap Meta Join keynote speech that may embrace the massive Cambria reveal. You’ll be able to tune into the occasion’s livestream by way of the Actuality Lab’s Fb web page, or, in case you have entry to a Meta Quest 2 headset, it’s also possible to register and expertise the occasion within the metaverse itself inside Horizon Worlds. In case you go that route, you’ll most likely wish to preserve a backup battery available in your headset, as immediately’s presentation is predicted to run for 5 hours, together with an tackle by John Carmack beginning at 5:30pm EST.
