Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly pinned a launch window for the corporate’s subsequent main VR headset. In an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Zuckerberg mentioned the system is coming at Meta’s Connect convention in October.

Zuckerberg described some key options of the brand new headset—most notably the flexibility to trace your facial expressions and characterize them in your digital avatar. He once more defined that his focus is on utilizing VR as the final word expression of know-how connecting folks—for instance, by facilitating eye contact inside VR.

“When you are on a video name, you do not really really feel such as you’re there with the particular person. To me, what digital actuality unlocks is that it actually convinces your mind that you just’re there,” he mentioned.

These options match earlier reveals and experiences about Project Cambria, a VR headset challenge Zuckerberg mentioned briefly eventually 12 months’s Connect. Recently, Bloomberg ran a narrative suggesting that the headset will be referred to as the Meta Quest Pro.

Whether it is referred to as Project Cambria, Meta Quest Pro, or one thing else, it is anticipated to be priced as a high-end system.

In late July, Meta introduced that the Quest 2’s base configuration (the one with 128GB of storage) would leap from a $299 MSRP to $399 and that the costlier mannequin with 256GB would leap from $399 to $499.

And over the previous a number of months, numerous business analysts have mentioned that Meta will not be capable of maintain its apply of promoting headsets at a loss, particularly with a giant competitor like Apple poised to enter the market.

So whereas we do not know the way a lot this new headset will value, you’ll be able to wager will probably be fairly a bit pricier than the Quest 2 at both its previous or new value.