Goal has informed its employees, through its division Reality Labsof the next projects that they will undertake in the field of AR and VR, overcoming the setbacks of the sector and the economic recession that affects the technological field globally.
The company plans to put into circulation in 2025 a new model of smart glasses with screen, as well as a neural interface smartwatch to control them. Similarly, the first pair of full AR glasses will be released in 2027 and will be used as a mobile phone.
Quest 3 arrives to revolutionize the market
In VR, the main objective will be the development of Quest 3which will be twice as thin and have twice the power of quest 2, although it will be somewhat more expensive than this model that is currently at 400 dollars. The Quest 3 will allow users to enjoy mixed reality experiences thanks to its front cameras capable of transmitting videos of the real world, following the line established by the Quest Pro.
Quest 3 or stinson (as it is known internally), it will have the difficult challenge of raising awareness of the need to pay more than with the Quest 2 in exchange for a series of important improvements. In fact, to date, Meta has sold nearly 20 million Quest headsetswhich shows that users are willing to invest in this type of technology.
quest 3 will incorporate new applications and gamesas well as new mixed reality experiences that allow you to take advantage of the updated hardware, although without the user seeing their safety or comfort when walking through the real world while using the device.
Already in 2024 it is planned to incorporate the ventura headset, which will be more accessible and a greater impact than the most attractive previous that exists in the consumer VR market. And although this one has not yet broken into the market, it is expected that another more advanced one will follow, called La Jollawhich will feature avatars of photorealistic codec applicable to the field of precision work.
From the company, its employees have been asked to work to popularize the uses and functionalities of Quest 2, until the launch of the new version arrives, since it seems that its success has been paralyzed and that dynamic innovations are required for it to succeed. in the market. The greater presence of Quest 2 in social networks depends on it and that the Meta online marketing strategies would be more effective in this regard.
Fear is raging at Meta, predicting that its VR hardware will soon find competition from Apple, which is launching a high-end VR headset, as well as from Sony, which has just released the PSVR 2 for your players. And it is that Google, Apple, Snap and others in the sector are working on the development of augmented reality glasses.
The new AR glasses and neural interfaces
For all these reasons, Meta is working on the development of new glasses and wrist devices that controls them and that allow a unique augmented reality experience, in such a way that unlike virtual reality, these AR glasses could be used throughout the day instead of smartphones. Own Zuckerberg has named them as ‘The Holy Grail’.
alex himelvice president of AR at Meta, assured that the second generation of camera-equipped smart glasses would arrive starting in the fall, launched in 2021 with luxottica (parent company of ray ban). In 2025 it is expected that the third generationwhich will have a screen that will allow you to see incoming text messages, scan QR codes and translate text from another language in real time.
Said glasses shall be equipped with a neural interface bandlocated on the wrist, which will allow the user to control them with simple movements of the hand such as sliding the fingers on a imaginary d-padjust like a mobile phone.
The first glasses that the company has been developing during the last eight years receive the code name of Orion and are designed to project high-quality avatar holograms into the real world. However, the public version will arrive in 2027.
The innovative smart watch
Another advance proposed by Meta is a smartwatch composed of screen and detachable camera, which accompanies his AR glasses. The new neural interfaces clock will allow you to control both the glasses and the neural interfaces as well as everything around you.
Now, during a video call, the glasses cameras could show the user’s perspective at the same time that the watch camera offers a selfie. In addition, it will be possible integrate with Meta social media apps like Whatsapp and will offer information on health and fitness.
Meta is confident that its new business model will work and generate a sales impact of almost 2,000 million glasses and hundreds of millions of smart watches year. The average revenue per user that the company expects to earn, even with ads in ARhe expects it to be greater than what he gets from social media.
