Meta Could Release Four More Headsets By 2024, Including a High-End Quest Model

Meta will reportedly give customers extra doorways to the metaverse by increasing its Quest VR headset choice with 4 further fashions arriving within the subsequent few years.

As it stands, Meta sells solely the Quest 2, a $299 choice broadly thought of the very best VR headset in the marketplace. It might quickly be joined by a number of different headsets, starting from price range fashions to costly, high-end {hardware}. According to The Information, we might see 4 new releases by the top of 2024 if Meta can hit the bold launch dates it set in a leaked inside roadmap.

The first of those gadgets will probably be the Project Cambria VR headset, a high-end digital and augmented actuality headset that Meta (Facebook on the time) teased throughout Facebook’s Connect keynote. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated the headset is “completely new” and can sit on the “high end of the price spectrum.”

The headset has cameras that cross high-res full-color video to the screens inside and can embrace face and eye-tracking in addition to sensors and algorithms to enhance the true world round you—including AR capabilities to this “mixed reality” product. The above video teases the headset, which is supposedly slimmer than others in the marketplace.

The Information, citing an unnamed supply who’s “familiar with the matter,” says the unique Project Cambria headset will value $799, greater than double the Quest 2’s worth, and launch someday in September, adopted in 2024 by an up to date model with the codename Funston. Cambria will supposedly include screens sharp sufficient so that you can learn textual content, so you possibly can kind emails or code within the metaverse while not having a monitor in your desk.

Project Cambria will run Meta’s model of Android OS and include processing energy equal to a low-end laptop computer, giving it the power to run net apps. Specifically, The Information experiences that Cambria has been internally described as a “laptop for your face,” with specs just like a Chromebook. Along with its improved imaging, the headset will supposedly be extra comfy to put on and pack a bigger battery.

Following on the heels of those work-focused fashions are a pair of gaming headsets codenamed Stinson and Cardiff. We don’t know a lot about these two, besides that they are going to be launched in 2023 and 2024, and the primary launch can be a high-end VR headset whereas the opposite can be a price range mannequin.

Meta is attempting to grab the market by increasing into completely different worth ranges and creating headsets not just for players, however doubtlessly for the workplace, faculty, or manufacturing unit. It’s all a part of the long-term imaginative and prescient of convincing customers to step into the metaverse, a theoretical digital area that blends the true world with the digital by using VR, AR, and blended actuality. Next week, Meta will open its first bodily storefront to persuade you to remain within the digital world.