The Wall Avenue Journal reports 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 gadget is a glasses-like headset codenamed “Loma,” with an exterior puck you slip into your pocket. Meta is reportedly looking for new and present licensed content material that will 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 growth and will succeed the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. UploadVR described Puffin as an especially gentle open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, and Loma may very effectively be Puffin, or change into it sooner or later.
Meta’s personal Andrew “Boz” Bosworth has said publicly that Meta has numerous prototypes in growth always, together with ones that by no means see the sunshine of day, and after the WSJ printed its report Wednesday, he reposted his assertion about prototypes from final fall that provides “…tales primarily based on chatter about one particular person choice won’t ever give the actual image.” Puffin, Loma, or different comparable choices may very well be in one of many prototyping phases Bosworth discussed with The Verge’s own Alex Heath final October.
Both approach, WSJ mentions Meta’s plan for Loma would set a worth that’s “greater than the $300 beginning worth for a Quest, however lower than the $3,500 base worth of a Imaginative and prescient Professional, based on a few of the individuals.”