Replace: Meta’s moved the beginning time by half-hour to 10:30AM PT/1:30 PM ET. No reason why, however the solar’s blazing on the presentation space, and crowds are milling about. Should you’re digital, you’ve gotten just a few choices for watching. Essentially the most accessible seems to be Meta’s developers page. (Unique article continues under.)
Meta’s annual Join convention kicks off with a keynote tomorrow, September 27, at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET. Fb’s father or mother is anticipated to make the Meta Quest 3 the centerpiece of the occasion. The most recent model of the headset arrives three years after its predecessor and rather less than a yr because the firm unveiled the Quest Professional — a mixed-reality headset geared toward enterprise customers.
Whereas corporations like Magic Leap have pivoted everything of their focus to company coaching and prototyping, Meta continues to be extraordinarily invested in client. Gaming (and to a far lesser extent the metaverse) is the place the social media large has discovered essentially the most luck. Whereas VR/AR haven’t been the rousing success Mark Zuckerberg et al. have been hoping for, Meta has a big headstart forward of the remainder of the trade (excepting perhaps Vive and PlayStation VR).
Zuck personally teased the Meta Quest 3 on Instagram a number of weeks in the past, calling it, “The primary mainstream headset with high-res coloration blended actuality,” including that it’s, “40% thinner and extra comfy [than the Quest 2]. Higher shows and determination. Subsequent gen Qualcomm chipset with 2x the graphics efficiency. Our strongest headset but.”
He additionally went forward and revealed the $499 worth. The corporate is little question going to be pushing the worth level that dramatically undercuts the Magic Leap 2 ($3,299) and its personal Quest Professional ($1,000) — to not point out the 800-pound gorilla, Apple’s $3,499 Imaginative and prescient Professional.
We’ll be on the bottom on the occasion in Menlo Park, posting the information. If you wish to observe alongside stay, your finest wager is bookmarking Meta’s Facebook page (Fb’s Meta web page?). The corporate might be livestreaming the keynote over there. And, in fact, maintain it locked into TechCrunch for the most recent.
