Meta is gearing up for Meta Join 2024 on September 25 and 26 for its subsequent set of main updates in VR and AR know-how.
The occasion has been held late in every calendar yr since 2014, first as Oculus Join, then as Fb Join, and since 2022 as Meta Join. At Join Meta’s groups showcase future-facing concepts wrapped along with nearer-term software program and {hardware} updates for AR and VR headsets.
2024 could also be a very vital yr for Meta’s efforts with stories suggesting the corporate is probably going hoping to supply a slimline glasses AR demo that may open minds to the way forward for AR. On the VR aspect, Quest 3S is now within the open because the probably identify for Meta’s subsequent low-cost headset and there are extra Horizon OS headsets within the works from companions.
“Join is open for anybody to attend by tuning into Fb on the @Meta or @MetaforDeveloper Pages on September 25 – 26,” a Meta consultant defined over electronic mail. “Extra data might be launched in the summertime together with agendas, audio system, and extra. We’ll be sharing extra details about in-person invites in the summertime.”
In the meantime, Apple is because of launch bulletins associated to Imaginative and prescient Professional at WWDC in mid-June, specs began to leak for a Pico 4S that might attempt to compete on price after a disappointing flip towards the Quest 2, and PlayStation VR2 provides PC help in August by way of a brand new adapter.
Meta can comply with that up in September by selling a wide range of tasks for the Quest Retailer and Horizon, alongside new characteristic updates coming quickly and within the distant future, in addition to the promise of latest, and probably shocking, future {hardware}.
