Zuckerberg finishes up by reiterating that Meta plans to make all its technologies as accessible and affordable ass possible, before handing the stage to chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth.
Bosworth is breaking down some of the technical innovations in Quest 3. You no longer need to manually set a guardian boundary, since it can scan your surroundings and warn you if you’re too close to objects. You can tap your headset any time to switch between fully immersive VR and mixed reality. A demo shows a bedroom where playlists from iHeartRadio live on walls like rock music posters, and the roof has been replaced by a starscape.
He calls Quest 3 the “best value spatial computing” there will be for a long time, taking a clear shot at Apple’s marketing speak and its upcoming headset’s $US3000 price tag.