Mark Zuckerberg has been sending signals on the new VR Meta headset (codename: Project Cambria) for months. According to him, it will revolutionize the world of virtual, augmented and mixed reality, and today there are some more rumors about its characteristics.
After the overwhelming success of Oculus, sorry: Meta Quest 2, the next VR headset is designed to go even further. Its roadmap, defined already last October 2021, includes the launch of a new model for next year. It will find a more attentive audience already accustomed to enjoying VR gaming experiences without the "weight" of a connected computer.
What will the new strengths be?
The first, capable of making a big difference, will be in the passthrough: going from virtual reality vision to the surrounding environment will be simpler, because you will also see "through" the helmet, clearly and in color (unlike the current visor VR).
Speaking of helmet: from the leaks online, you will have seen them, it is clear that the form factor will also change, "lightening" the device considerably. Now it looks like a fighter pilot's helmet, complete with a nose opening. A decisive evolution.
Another underlying element: an enhanced hand and face tracking system. It will allow easier use without the controllers (always expected, but smaller and more manageable) and above all it will allow the system to "reconstruct" the user's facial expressions, and also their somatics: to create avatars that are increasingly closer to their real appearance .
New VR Meta Viewer: what was a bit disappointing about the presentation?
In a post on his Facebook page the CEO of Meta launched a "flash" showing a little bit of gameplay in mixed reality. A few seconds of gameplay provides some interesting hypotheses.
One of all: the video recording system of the new vr viewer may not be very different from the current one. There are no elements aside from this very short clip, though, and so I might be wrong.
We will wait for a complete presentation to understand more: after all, there are only 6-8 months left until launch, and there is plenty of time to surprise us. I want to say it, if the price (also hypothesized on the basis of the filtered hardware characteristics) will really be around 799 euros.
