Meta's Next VR Headset Will Launch in October

 Zuckerberg says Meta's next VR headset will ship in October and focus on 'social presence'

Meta is sending its next VR headset to Connect this October. President Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement late Thursday, fittingly, in a similarly strange climate: the Joe Rogan Experience webcast on Spotify.

He said the new VR headset, a follow-up to the well-known Oculus 2, will focus on "social presence" with features such as eye tracking and face tracking. Zuckerberg said the headset is meant to capture the clients' gazes and have them imitate them on their symbols to improve non-verbal correspondence. He also noted that while Meta's AR glasses are a few years away, the headset shipping in October will have some mixed reality highlights.

It finally debuted a high-end headset codenamed "Venture Cambria" at this year's Connect Meta meeting, and according to Zuckerberg's rendering, the headset shipped in October is its final customer rendition. A report from Bloomberg last month noted that code in Meta's iPhone-friendly VR headset app recommends that the upcoming headset be called Meta Quest Pro.

On Joe Rogan's digital recording, Zuckerberg focused again and again on the way VR can "unlock" the feeling of being in someone else's line of sight.

Since Facebook was renamed Meta, the organization has reworked the entire organization into a "metaverse" business instead of online entertainment, and presented its system as a system of building a huge space of many virtual universes for all clients. Some may have one or two glaring doubts about the reason and inspiration that informed the turnaround, but the organization has gone ahead and developed attempts to more easily stitch together the different types of encounters it creates. Skyline Worlds, for example, is a custom-built social scene for VR headsets available in select countries. That said, it has been criticized for its corny illustrations, so the claims of the next eye-catching VR headsets will be put to the test.

Meta's statement comes long after the organization raised the cost of the Oculus 2 from $299 to $399. While there's no cost information on the upcoming headset, Zuckerberg described it as "a pretty huge step up from the Oculus 2," making it substantially more expensive than $400.