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Speaking in The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the largest in the world Metaverse’s proponent, Meta’s own Mark Zuckerberg, divulged some details about Facebook’s upcoming AR/VR headset.
His next-generation virtual reality gizmo will launch in October, Zuckerberg said, and will have better non-verbal communication, such as maintaining proper eye contact between Metaverse avatars.
“In the previous version eye contact was just an AI simulation, we didn’t actually know when you were making eye contact because we weren’t eye tracking. Now for this version, and hopefully many of the different ones we build in the future, you’ll be able to have more and more realistic facial expressions streamed directly to your avatar.tweeted the CEO of Meta.
By the old version, Mark Zuckerberg is probably referring to the Meta Quest 2 VR headset that launched in 2020 under the Oculus brand. Facebook’s father, Meta, also has smart glasses that are made in partnership with Ray-Ban.
However, its current two AR/VR headsets arrived before Facebook announced its rebranding and deep dive into the Metaverse, so anything Meta announces in October had better be good. It will face some powerful competition from the upcoming PlayStation VR2, as well as Apple’s own AR/VR glasses gizmo that may launch early next year.
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