Meta right this moment introduced that its subsequent installment of Join, the corporate’s annual XR developer convention, is once more going digital this yr. The occasion, which guarantees to share updates and appears into the “close to and much future” of Meta, can be held on October eleventh, 2022.
Like final yr’s all-digital Join, this yr’s dev convention will embody livestreaming keynotes and developer periods, which the corporate says can be obtainable on the Actuality Labs Fb web page. And it’s all being boiled down into sooner or later.
There’s no schedule out but, nonetheless the corporate says its one-day digital occasion will discover “the constructing of the metaverse and the way forward for augmented and digital actuality.” You possibly can join updates over at metaconnect.com for any upcoming livestreams.
We’d anticipate that a lot, however extra particularly we’re hoping to be taught a number of key issues. Topping the record is data surrounding its subsequent VR headset, Challenge Cambria, or what’s rumored to be dubbed Meta Quest Professional.
On the Joe Rogan Expertise Podcast final week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg let it slip that its “subsequent gadget [is] popping out in October,” which suggests a Cambria launch throughout Join. That will additionally imply we get the total data drop on the so-called Quest Professional then. Reminder: at greater than $800 Cambria is probably going meant for prosumers and builders trying to get their palms on a VR headset able to AR interactions (aka ‘combined actuality’) thanks to paint passthrough and built-in eye monitoring.
No matter we see although will most actually want prime final yr’s huge identify change if the corporate desires to make good on its full rebranding, which primarily unplugged the Fb and Oculus model names and pivoted the corporate to focus extra on constructing the metaverse.
Another bits we’d anticipate in Join 2022: Meta’s social VR area Horizon Worlds demonstrating a extra particular route, which we’d hope consists of better-looking avatars and the kind of baked-in social options its VR {hardware} has been lacking since, properly, eternally.
Now that Oculus…er…Meta Quest 2 has seen a worth bump and the corporate nonetheless hasn’t delivered on its formidable metaverse ideas, Join 2022 could also be simply the place for the corporate to set expectations for Meta transferring ahead.
