The Wall Street Journal experiences Meta is in talks with Disney and A24 to attempt to safe unique streaming content material for a brand new headset it’s creating. WSJ says Meta’s new system is a glasses-like headset codenamed “Loma,” with an exterior puck you slip into your pocket. Meta is reportedly in search of new and current licensed content material that might be unique to its platform on VR or as timed exclusives.
That puck design appears like Meta’s lately rumored “Puffin” headset, which is reportedly in improvement and will succeed the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. UploadVR described Puffin as a particularly gentle open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, and Loma may very nicely be Puffin, or develop into it in some unspecified time in the future.
Meta’s personal Andrew “Boz” Bosworth has stated publicly that Meta has varied prototypes in improvement always, together with ones that by no means see the sunshine of day, and after the WSJ revealed its report Wednesday, he reposted his assertion about prototypes from final fall that provides “…tales primarily based on chatter about one particular person resolution won’t ever give the true image.” Puffin, Loma, or different related choices might be in one of many prototyping levels Bosworth mentioned with The Verge’s personal Alex Heath final October.
Either approach, WSJ mentions Meta’s plan for Loma would set a value that’s “greater than the $300 beginning value for a Quest, however lower than the $3,500 base value of a Vision Pro, in line with among the individuals.”
