The Wall Road Journal reports Meta is in talks with Disney and A24 to try 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 current licensed content material that may be unique to its platform on VR or as timed exclusives.
That puck design feels like Meta’s just lately rumored “Puffin” headset, which is reportedly in growth and will succeed the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. UploadVR described Puffin as a particularly mild open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, and Loma might very properly be Puffin, or turn out to be 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 revealed 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 related choices might be in one of many prototyping levels Bosworth mentioned with The Verge’s personal Alex Heath final October.
Both 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 Imaginative and prescient Professional, in accordance with a number of the individuals.”