Meta VR Glasses were just officially announced. Priced at $1300, they have 2.4K micro-OLED displays, weigh 100 grams, and are powered by a tethered puck with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset.
The puck runs the same operating system as Quest 3, and supports all the same content, rendered at notably higher resolution thanks to a combination of the more powerful chipset (essentially an XR2 Gen 3 by a different name) and eye-tracked foveated rendering.
The only caveat to that is that Meta VR Glasses do not come with controllers by default, but you can buy Touch Plus controllers separately (available in a new all-black color), or pair the controllers from your existing Quest 3 or Quest 3S, and there’ll be a bundle with controllers “in some retail channels”.
Just what we’ve all been waiting for: a very personal device you can use to privately view and do lots of different things in a virtual world, except daddy Zuck gets to succ on every bit of data you consume and create.
Joyous!
Not just what you do in the virtual world, you also give him everything picked up by the HMD’s external cameras. Including but not limited to the layout of your home and facial scans of family members who happen to be in the same room