Mark Zuckerberg confirms new Meta VR headset will launch in October

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that Meta's next virtual reality headset will arrive in October. Zuckerberg made the comments on Joe Rogan's podcast, indicating the device - almost certainly the headset codenamed Project Cambria" - will likely launch around the company's annual Connect event.

For the next device that's coming out in October, there's a few big features," Zuckerberg said, discussing VR at the beginning of the podcast. He proceeded to describe new social options that would be enabled by eye and facial tracking. The ability to now have kind of eye contact in virtual reality," Zuckerberg said as part of the feature list. Have your face be tracked so that way your avatar - it's not just this still thing, but if you...

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