At Connect today, Facebook, which has changed its name to Meta, outlined its vision for the Metaverse, but before it can get there, the team needs to build a series of foundations. Among them, Meta released Project Cambria, the next-generation all-in-one VR headset that will debut next year.
Meta says it's not a replacement for Quest 2, and it's not Quest 3 at the same time. Project Cambria will be a pricier high-end device as it will feature a host of advanced technologies including optimized social presence, color perspective, Pancake optics and more. When hardware advances by leaps and bounds, the experiences developers create through the Presence Platform (including Passthrough APIs, voice interactions, and more) will really shine the brightest. The team said more information will be released in the future.
The appearance of Project Cambria is basically the same as the previously leaked codenamed "Oculus Seacliff". In September, a netizen posted two screenshots of what appears to be a new Quest controller via the image-sharing platform imgur (pictured above). Among them, we can see that the device is equipped with multiple visual cameras, and has abandoned the infrared LED-type tracking ring that has been used (and widely used in the industry).
Based on the previously leaked pictures and teaching videos of the controller, it can be seen that the controller should be positioned and tracked inside and out through several visual cameras, so as to realize the 6DoF positioning and tracking of the controller, and the solution of positioning and tracking can also be performed independently done on the controller compute element.
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