How to Watch Meta (Probably) Reveal Its Next Generation Virtual Reality Headset Today

With the vacations quick approaching, ‘tis the season for companies to reveal all the shiny new gadgets they want showing up on wish lists. Today is Meta’s flip, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipated to disclose all the small print on Project Cambria (rumored to be known as the Meta Quest Pro)—its subsequent technology digital actuality headset—at its Meta Connect convention. Anyone can tune in to observe the occasion when it streams beginning at 1 PM ET at present.

A 12 months in the past, Facebook revealed a significant rebranding, with the firm altering its title to Meta and making a significant push in 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 sporting a VR headset, just like the Meta Quest 2.

Despite a major $100 value bump introduced for the Meta Quest 2 again in July, the headset stays one of the vital in style digital actuality options accessible to customers, promoting nearly 15 million models since its debut in 2020. But 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 12 months. Codenamed Project Cambria, however rumored to formally be known as the Meta Quest Pro, it may considerably exceed $800.

We’ll know for sure how Meta plans to additional form the metaverse beginning at 1pm EST at present as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for a gap Meta Connect keynote speech that can embrace the large Cambria reveal. You can tune into the occasion’s livestream by means of the Reality Lab’s Facebook page, or, when you’ve got entry to a Meta Quest 2 headset, you too can register and experience the event in the metaverse itself inside Horizon Worlds. If you go that route, you’ll most likely wish to preserve a backup battery readily available on your headset, as at present’s presentation is predicted to run for 5 hours, together with an tackle by John Carmack beginning at 5:30pm EST.