Last year Meta began building its Presence platform on the Quest VR headset, which has limited mixed reality capabilities. It can, for example, show your real keyboard in your virtual workspace. Or it can anchor virtual objects to real-life places, for example if you put a virtual chessboard on your coffee table, it will stay there between sessions.
The company is working on a much more advanced headset, known for now as “Project Cambria”. It will take Quest’s mixed reality capabilities to the next level.
The new headset will have better cameras, which will allow for full-color, high-resolution pass-through. Improved sensors and algorithms will be able to reconstruct a more accurate representation of your environment, allowing the virtual world to conform and interact with the real one in a more realistic way.
Here’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg testing Cambria. The headset itself is pixelated as it is still in production, but the video gives you an idea of the kind of interactions you can expect. This demo is dubbed The world beyond.
The world beyond will be available as a demo on Quest for users to try out soon, but without the color shift the experience will be limited. If you own a Quest, you can download it from the App Lab.
Check out this video as well, which summarizes what Meta has achieved with the Quest and how Cambria will improve virtual presence technology, which is the cornerstone of the Metaverse.
The Project Cambria headset will be out later this year, but the software features used to blend the virtual and real world together will be released sooner so developers can get to work creating their own mixed reality experiences. Cambria is one of four headphones that Meta plans to release over the next two years.
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