Meta Considers New Blended Actuality Glasses as Headsets Different: Report

Meta Platforms is planning a Blended Actuality system that resembles a cumbersome pair of glasses, the Info reported on Wednesday, citing two staff from the social media big.

Internally code-named “Puffin”, the brand new challenge is targeted on designing a substitute for the heavy headsets supplied by Fb’s dad or mum firm, which have a restricted client attraction, the report added.

Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters’ request for remark.

Blended Actuality merges augmented and Digital Actuality (VR) and permits real-world and digital objects to work together.

Augmented Actuality (AR) overlays textual content, sounds, graphics and video onto real-world pictures that customers see in entrance of them, whereas digital actuality places customers into a totally synthetic atmosphere, creating computer-generated experiences.

Puffin can be a considerably smaller system than Meta’s current Quest headsets, the report stated, including the challenge remains to be in early phases with a deliberate launch in 2027.

Meta’s Actuality Labs division, in cost for growing and advertising the Quest line of VR headsets, has incurred monetary losses amounting to billions. Regardless of this, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stays optimistic in regards to the future prospects of augmented and digital actuality applied sciences.

In contrast to Quest headsets, the brand new Puffin system won’t embrace handheld controllers as customers will be capable of function it with hand gestures and eye actions, based on the report.

The digital and combined actuality headset market gained renewed consideration following Apple’s entry final 12 months, though its Imaginative and prescient Professional has confronted challenges in gross sales as a consequence of a pricy tag of almost $3,500.

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