Meta’s digital Connect occasion will stream stay Oct. eleventh | Engadget

Meta Connect, the corporate’s annual occasion dedicated to augmented and digital actuality, is simply over a month away. The newly renamed occasion will happen October eleventh, Mark Zuckerberg in a put up on Facebook.

As with final 12 months, the occasion will likely be digital and streamed stay on Reality Labs’ Facebook web page. For now, there are few different official particulars out there. The Meta Connect says extra details about audio system and the schedule for the day are “coming soon.”

But we already know a bit about what to anticipate. Meta is prone to lastly exhibit Project Cambria, its new high-end which may be known as Meta Quest Pro. In his Facebook put up, Zuckerberg appeared to tease the massive reveal, with a photograph of him carrying a headset that was nearly totally obscured. Zuckerberg additionally lately promised to Horizon avatars after his personal low-res VR likeness was mercilessly dragged.

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It can even be the corporate’s first large VR occasion since Zuckerberg introduced Facebook’s rebrand to Meta at Connect final fall. At the time, he tried to articulate for the metaverse and the social community’s position in it. But that imaginative and prescient hasn’t at all times been clear. And the concept of a “metaverse” has nonetheless been a supply of (and generally derision, as evidenced by the response to Zuckerberg’s avatar). Meta Connect can even be Zuckerberg’s newest alternative to not solely hype the corporate’s newest {hardware}, however to attempt to construct pleasure for an eventual metaverse.

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