A couple of days ago, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, shared teaser trailers of its next-gen headset codenamed Project Cambria. In contrast to the company's previous headsets, the upcoming device won't just be a VR one but appears to also double as an MR headset as it features color passthrough as shown in the video below:

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In addition to the video above, another video was shared showing CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing the actual headset on (albeit blurred). It shows an in-house experience called The World Beyond that merges interactive virtual elements in the physical world through full color passthrough. A similar experience is also said to be available sometime soon on the Quest 2 through App Lab.

Mark gives us a preview of Project Cambria and its mixed reality capabilities 👀 pic.twitter.com/iCMGwcaIim

— Meta Quest (@MetaQuestVR) May 12, 2022

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Details such as the final design, specs or price tag haven't been revealed at this time but Meta's Cambria Project headset is expected to launch sometime this year. But given that it is being termed as a "high-end VR headset" in the video above, it could be priced higher than the Meta Quest 2.

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[Localhorst86]

For a device that they seemingly intended for businesses, the presentation makes very little effort to sell it to them. How many businesses are about interacting with a virtual, cutesy creature?

 

[RichardTheKing]

So wait, do the videos feature colour passthrough, or does the headset feature that?
Article title is ambiguous.

 

[Axido]

So wait, do the videos feature colour passthrough, or does the headset feature that?
Article title is ambiguous.

The headsets are supposed to feature colors, too. Even in passthrough mode.

While this is a great addition, I really fail to understand how one single feature is enough reason for this video to exist in the first place.

 

[lokomelo]

Why a company would buy gear to reduce the employees productivity?

 

[gohan123]

why does mark have a censored black cock in his face. doesn't he come preinstalled with these capacities?

 

[yusuo]

I can't wait to not even touch it.

Sorry, but I don't want to pay for the luxury of giving Facebook my data

 

[Naster]

What?! Color?! What a time to be alive! Imagine videogames in color!

 

[gaga941021]

So wait, do the videos feature colour passthrough, or does the headset feature that?
Article title is ambiguous.

What do you not understand?

 

[RichardTheKing]

What do you not understand?

It's a garden-path sentence; the "with colour passthrough" part could belong to "new videos", since it comes immediately after it, or it could belong it "next-gen headset", which is more logical.
It all depends on how you parse it.

 

[gaga941021]

It's a garden-path sentence; the "with colour passthrough" part could belong to "new videos", since it comes immediately after it, or it could belong it "next-gen headset", which is more logical.
It all depends on how you parse it.

No, it's the next gen headset, obviously.

 

[nikeymikey]

Facebook are involved so i'm out

"You can change your name but it doesn't stop you being a c**t" - Someone Somewhere

 

[Hanafuda]

I'd probably get a kick out of something like that if I were still using lots of drugs.

 

[tech3475]

Valve really needs to make a 'painfully priced' VR headset like the Quest 2, these things have sold well where I work.

 

[ertaboy356b]

The 3DS has better AR than this.

 

[x65943]

It's ridiculous how buggy and shaky the games look even in official promotional material - who would want to buy this

 

[mrdude]

I'm not sure why anyone would want to sit about with a box on their head, when they can just take it off and be in the real world. Maybe it would be good for disabled people that worked from home but for the rest of us.....nah, I'd rather look at real people face to face than some made up pixel representation of what they think they should look like.

 

[ZeroT21]

LOL, zucker is still hellbent on collecting everyone' metadata so he can monetize it bigtime, hence the name ''meta''

 

[Aheago]

The headsets are supposed to feature colors, too. Even in passthrough mode.

While this is a great addition, I really fail to understand how one single feature is enough reason for this video to exist in the first place.

I feel like this sums of VR headset announcements in general honestly

I’m still using my OG vive and have no complaints, especially since it seems like every “new headset” has maybe one or two things slightly better which makes things even more worthless seemingly. There are a handful of exceptions here but most/all VR headsets give a similar clean experience and are practically the same as their counterparts

 

[shaunj66]

I love VR and think it has a bright future but I just don't get all this AR stuff. I don't see the appeal besides some business oriented use cases and even then I think that's a pretty niche market.

Also it looks way jankier than any VR game I've ever played and this is promotional footage?! Look at the hammer 55 seconds in on the linked Youtube clip. It's glitching around and looks jank as fuck.