A new week a new leak for the quest 2 pro. This time we get a view from inside the headset and its color pass through and mixed reality capabilities. Virtual office creator immersed shared the video showing off, what to me definitely looks like a quest pro creating a virtual conference room from a smaller table in someone’s home complete with other avatars joining the conference.  Immersed also give us a glimpse out of a virtual office set up with multiple digital windows for productivity using color passthrough and implementing an actual keyboard just like we’ve seen on the quest 2 infinite office feature. Oh and a familiar video thumbnail down there in a discord window. Maybe they used my video to this in obs!? 

Slowing down the video and looking at this frame we do see something we haven’t before in the form of a thick sided facial cover pad to prevent light leakage into the headset. My guess is that we will see this come as an add on accessory and from third party dealers. As with any of this it all could be clever editing but to me its looking a lot like the quest pro which we will finally get the full details of next week so get subscribed and stay tuned for coverage of Meta connect 2022. Are any of you interested in pre-ordering or buying a quest 2 pro? Let me know in the comments below and as always thanks for watching I’ll catch you in the next quickie

Somebody left behind the upcoming Meta Quest Pro codenamed Project Cambria at a hotel so now we have an unboxing ahead of it's reveal at Meta Connect 2022

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Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth took to instagram to answer some of our questions on the upcoming project cambria headset, the future of the quest line of headsets, log in changes and more.

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I’ll start by saying I’m sorry but I was wrong.

Project Cambria is definitely going to push VR gaming into the future. Today Zuck revealed some new info on the experiences coming to the cambria headset in a censored trailer along with a sit down with Jess schell from schell games who created games like i expect you to die and are working on the among us vr release.

In the conversation zuckerberg states the cambria will have a tighter form factor than the quest 2 and confirms the new high resolution color outward facing cameras as well as the depth sensors.

That color camera and depth sensor are the backbone to the newly released Presence Platform. Over the last few months devs have received new features one at a time and now it is ready and available to all developers. Soon we will be fishing in our floor or using spatial anchors to place digital assets in our physical world like this chess board to play with that one other friend you have that plays chess or bring the I expect you to die escape system right into our living room.

Basically the cambria will take the color camera view as your default home and then have assets digitally placed. With this Zuck hopes for mixed reality to help draw new people into vr with the presence platform. Instead of people being placed in a game world like vr they can now be in their physical world with the game placed inside it. So you can play beat saber in your bath tub. He used an example of bringing in a digital ping pong table into your living room and inviting a friend to play. Which makes me wonder if we will be buying games as digital assets in the future, which sounds much better than NFTs…

In the trailer Zuck posted we learned about an experience called the World beyond which uses the presence platform to create all new mixed reality experiences like adding these flowers and this Guitar digitally to your room or turn your walls into a dreamland of whatever you or well a dev can think up.

The world beyond will be available on the quest via app lab soon but of course only the full color pass through version will be available on cambria.

Zuck bucks did finish detailing one of his biggest focuses with cambria is on work and productivity. He expects by the end of this decade to see more people using a vr device at work for more of their work day. So they can have as many monitors as they need, and can collaborate with co workers who are far away but with the presence platform will be in the room with them. And again an innovation on zoom meetings. He also said the word hologram a lot. Star Wars life is not too far.

Lastly I did want to point out that even though the trailer had it pixelated the headset does look very much like the renders produced by Brad and Marcus Kane and peeping through the pixels it doesn’t seem like there will be too much space for light bleed underneath the cambria. Also brad of course saw the controllers on a charging pad and the headset unblurred in the background.

Well I hope to see your presence in this next video and what are your thoughts now that we have some more solid info on cambria. Let me know in the comments and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.

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Project Cambria or maybe the final name of it the Meta Quest 2 Pro headset gets a few words from Mark Zuckerberg during Meta's Q1 2022 earnings call. Here are those words.

“The last priority I want to discuss today is the metaverse. While we're focusing on the biggest opportunities and challenges of today, I think it's important to build the foundation for the next era of social technology as well.

The centerpiece of our strategy is the social platform that we're starting to build with Horizon. It's still early but as we build out the experience, the next focus will be on growing the community. We plan to launch a web version of Horizon later this year that will make it easy for people to step into metaverse experiences from a lot more platforms, even without needing a headset. I think the best experience will be on virtual and eventually augmented reality platforms -- and especially on our platforms like Quest, where in an upcoming release, from the moment you put on your headset you’re going to be embodied in your Meta avatar and ready to interact in Horizon with your friends right from your Quest home.

But making this available everywhere will mean you can interact with anyone on whatever device or platform that they want to use. Our other focus for Horizon is building out the metaverse economy and helping creators make a living working in the metaverse. We expect to be meaningfully better at monetization than others in this space, and we think that should become a sustainable advantage for our platforms as they develop.

On the hardware side, Meta Quest 2 continues to be the leading virtual reality headset. Later this year, we'll release a higher-end headset, codenamed Project Cambria, which will be more focused on work use cases and eventually replacing your laptop or work setup. This premium device will have improved ergonomics and full color passthrough mixed reality to seamlessly blend virtual reality with the physical world. We're also building in eye tracking and face tracking so that your avatar can make eye contact and facial expressions, which dramatically improves your sense of presence.

It's also a good example of why we're developing hardware in addition to the social platforms. We're bringing Horizon to more platforms, but if you want to be able to make eye contact or have your physical facial expressions just automatically get translated to your avatar in real-time, then our hardware will provide the best metaverse experience -- whether you're playing a game or meeting with co-workers in Horizon Workrooms. We'll share more details about Project Cambria in the months ahead as we get ready to launch it.

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