Project Cambria is Facebook's next high-end VR headset, coming next year

(Pocket-lint) - While astatine Connect 2021, Facebook's yearly developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed his institution has a caller VR headset successful the works.

Called Project Cambria, it's expected to beryllium an upgrade to the year-old Oculus Quest 2 - but not a replacement headset. It volition connection an improved mixed world experience, implicit with look and eye-tracking and much compact optics. Facebook lone concisely teased Project Cambria, but it did accidental it packs cameras that tin walk high-resolution, full-colour video to the headset’s screens.

Keep successful caput the Quest 2 is simply a second-generation, tether-free, wireless virtual world headset. With nary PC requirement, the headset manages to connection high-end VR gaming experiences astatine an affordable price. It'll beryllium absorbing to spot however Project Cambria tin amended upon it.

Facebook didn't notation a terms oregon a merchandise day for Project Cambria, but Zuckerberg called it a "completely new" merchandise astatine the “high extremity of the terms spectrum". It’s expected to see next-generation features that Facebook can’t see successful the Quest range, and yet, it'll get successful 2022.

Also astatine Connect, Facebook teased it's moving connected augmented world glasses. It adjacent announced a caller institution sanction for Facebook: Meta. A fitting sanction fixed Facebook spent the bulk of the Connect keynote outlining its imaginativeness for the "metaverse" - aka the aboriginal of the internet. 

Stay tuned to Pocket-lint's How to ticker Connect usher to ticker a recap of the event. We'll update that leafage with each the large announcements.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 28 October 2021.