The aggressive panorama has undoubtedly modified with the doorway of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional earlier this yr, elevating questions the place Meta is headed subsequent with its XR efforts. A latest report from The Info maintains the corporate is now contemplating a tool resembling “a cumbersome pair of [mixed reality] glasses,” codenamed ‘Puffin’.
Citing two Meta staff, the report maintains the headset at present into account is a slim and light-weight blended actuality machine that might function an alternative choice to bigger headsets, corresponding to the present Quest line, which to date has “restricted client attraction,” The Info experiences.
Whereas nonetheless in early levels, Puffin may launch as quickly as 2027, the report maintains, noting that it gained’t be an augmented actuality headset, however relatively use pancake lenses, that are used along with VR shows.
Notably, such type issue would counsel the inclusion of micro shows just like these seen in Bigscreen Past, the slim PC VR headset from the studio behind Bigscreen Beta.
Seemingly taking a web page out of Apple’s playbook with Imaginative and prescient Professional, it’s mentioned the headset may also omit Contact controllers, as it might primarily depend on hand and eye-tracking for enter.
Moreover, it’s reported Puffin would offload weight from the consumer’s head with using “Exterior Processing Puck and Battery.”
This follows a report final yr the rebuked rumors that Quest Professional 2, which might be positioned to compete with Imaginative and prescient Professional, wasn’t really cancelled. On the time, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth mentioned “don’t consider every thing you learn.”
Nevertheless, only a few days in the past, a recent report from The Info claimed the supposed Quest Professional 2 had certainly been cancelled by Meta, specified within the report as being codenamed ‘La Jolla’.
Whereas we’re hoping to study extra about Puffin at Meta Join in late September, it’s extra doubtless the occasion will deal with revealing Quest 3S, which is rumored to be the corporate’s subsequent inexpensive headset, ostensibly supplanting Quest 2.
We’re additionally hoping to listen to about the discharge of its fleet of third-party Quest-like headsets operating HorizonOS, which can embrace companions ASUS, Lenovo, and Xbox.
