Facebook glances at 'completely new' next-generation high-end VR 'Project Cambria'



Facebook has announced that it is developing a next-generation high-end VR headset under the codename 'Project Cambria'.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta , said that Project Cambria is a 'totally new' product and will be at the 'upper price range (in VR headsets)' and is scheduled for release in 2022. It was made.

Facebook teases'Project Cambria' high-end VR / AR headset --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22749008/facebook-oculus-project-cambria-pro-vr-ar-headset

Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/28/facebook-unveils-horizon-home-social-vr-messenger-vr-calls-and-fitness-vr-on-road-to-metaverse/

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Project Cambria focuses on mixed reality (MR) and includes face and eye tracking capabilities. It features slimmer optics than existing VR headsets and sensors and algorithms that help rebuild and enhance the real world. The movie played with the announcement of Project Cambria is below, and only the silhouette is revealed about the appearance.

Project Cambria --YouTube


Foreign media The Verge points out that it 'looks like an Oculus Pro leaked in the fifth week of October 2021', but no other details are known.

Meta is expanding VR-related content as it moves to the Metaverse company.

Regarding games, it was announced that a VR version of 'Grand Theft Auto San Andreas ' is under development for Oculus Quest 2.



In addition, we have announced 'Horizon Home' as a social function for VR. Home allows users to spend time with friends in digital space and enjoy videos, games and apps together via Avatar. In addition, 2D applications such as Messenger that can be used on VR will also appear. Some of the apps available on Home are Slack, Dropbox, Facebook, Instagram and more.

The usage image of Horizon Home is as shown in the following movie, and it seems that it will be an application that removes the business color from the virtual conference room 'Horizon Workrooms' developed by Meta.

Horizon Home | Oculus Quest --YouTube


In addition, Meta announced 'Quest for Business' to use VR for more business with Oculus Quest 2. Quest for Business can provide companies with necessary functions such as 'account management', 'IDP and SSO integration', and 'mobile device management'. Testing will begin in 2021, move to open beta in 2022, and will be available to all users in 2023.

In addition, Meta announced the 'Presence Platform,' a wide range of machine recognition and AI features that enable you to build MR experiences on the Quest platform. Presence Platform makes it easier to understand the environment, content placement and persistence, audio interactions, standardized hand interactions, and more. Presence Platform is a software development kit (SDK) for developing MR experiences, 'Insight SDK', SDK 'Interaction SDK' that makes it easy to add hand interactions to apps, and voice input can be easily built. It consists of three products called 'Voice SDK'.

In addition, Meta has announced that it will invest more than 10 billion dollars (about 1.1 trillion yen) in Facebook Reality Lab, a VR development department including Oculus, and more than 10,000 new people in Europe for this department We are going to set up employment.

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