At Meta Connect, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Quest VR headset users will be able to connect to Windows 11 PCs just by looking at their keyboard — much the same way Apple’s Vision Pro can do that when you look at a MacBook.
Here’s a gallery of pics from the presentation.
The Meta app has started teasing improvements to Horizons avatars when users try to edit them, according to an X post spotted by UploadVR.
The slides promise “more expressive, authentic stickers, profile pics, and more,” along with updated editing controls and ways to quickly change your avatar’s look. I’d imagine we’ll learn what that all means this week during Meta Connect.
Or if it does, then it’s very well hidden. There’s no 3.5mm audio port apparent in any of the images shared in a South Korean forum post that UploadVR spotted yesterday.
Click through the gallery below to see more, including pictures of the buttons (might one of those be that rumored Action Button?)
Meta announced Cryptic Cabinet on Thursday. The “open-source mixed reality showcase” serves as a reference app for developers who want to use its source code to make mixed reality games for the Quest headsets.
But it’s also a standalone game that generates furniture and other escape room puzzle elements in players’ environments. It’s available on the App Lab.
Developer Innersloth announced that the game won’t receive updates or further support on the platform starting October 4th, 2023. As for why, the developer cites “the discontinuation of the Rift S headset, and many Rift players already moving to SteamVR.”
Players can get a SteamVR key for the game by submitting proof of purchase, using this form, by October 20th, 2023.
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Meta doesn’t just need another hardware building block — it needs games.
The other day, Vjeran discovered we still have the original Oculus Rift dev kit I brought back from Oculus HQ ten years ago. It made me nostalgic, so I decided to spruce up my story about touring their early offices to fix a little linkrot.
Then, an old photo suddenly caught my eye.
No idea how long this was on display, but it had a seat of honor at the front desk. Oculus sold to Facebook one year later.
During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses, and a ‘neural interface’ smartwatch.
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