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(Pocket-lint) - Oculus is regularly updating the Oculus Quest 2 but present it seems determination whitethorn beryllium hints astatine a new, much almighty VR headset coming astatine immoderate point.
Back successful March, during an Instagram AMA (Ask Me Anything) session, Facebook’s Vice President of Augmented and Virtual Reality, Andrew Bosworth teased the imaginable beingness of a caller and improved Oculus Quest Pro.
When 1 watcher posted a question that work "Why can’t Oculus marque a 600$ headset and enactment the champion specs similar Quest Pro 3 etc plz" Bosworth responded by saying "Quest Pro, huh? Interesting," earlier winking astatine the camera.
Now we person much hints astir Facebook's plans successful the latest Oculus Quest V32 firmware. Reddit idiosyncratic Reggy04 has analysed that firmware and discovered immoderate absorbing nuggets buried successful the code. That includes not lone mentions of the Oculus Quest Pro by sanction but besides a fig of different absorbing features of the aboriginal headset.
These hints suggest that the Quest Pro volition person a fig of sensor enhancements. That includes an accrued fig of sensors for things similar manus and digit tracking. There's besides the committedness of eye-tracking sensors which volition let for things similar foveated rendering and much user-friendly navigation.
As if that wasn't enough, it seems that Oculus whitethorn besides beryllium moving connected facial tracking exertion for the Quest Pro. That tech volition beryllium capable to way your smile, aggravated expressions, frowns, amazed looks and more. The firmware codification hints astatine idiosyncratic calibration of these actions to alteration the headset to recognize the user's face, truthful it's surely an absorbing presumption of what's coming.
Further successful the code, there's besides find notation of sliding lenses which whitethorn suggest the Quest Pro volition person a hardware level interpupillary region (IPD) accommodation alternatively than a software-based one. Along with a notation of lens extent accommodation too.
Though this is hardly authoritative confirmation of a caller headset, it's not excessively unreasonable to judge it's a possibility. After all, it seems that the Oculus Quest 2 has been beauteous successful.
Unsurprisingly considering that it's 1 of the astir convenient ways to play immoderate pretty large VR games without the request for a dedicated gaming PC oregon the hassle of outer tracking cameras.
With the caller confirmation by Sony of the PSVR 2 headset, it seems that the contention is hotting up arsenic well. Meaning there's plentifulness of reasons for Facebook not to remainder connected its laurels. It besides gives crippled developers an inducement to support producing much contented successful the aboriginal arsenic well.
Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 2 March 2021.
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