Meta will hold its annual event on October 11, and a new VR / MR is expected to be launched.

Beijing time, September 7, Meta CEO Zuckerberg released news that the annual VR conference Connect will be held on October 11. In the poster, Zuckerberg seems to be wearing a new helmet, it may be Project Cambria, this is a powerful MR helmet.

Meta has invested $10 billion a year to build a next-generation software platform, and Meta has previously admitted that VR / AR technology is not popular mainly because the hardware is not powerful enough.

Zuckerberg said in a podcast interview last month that he plans to launch Project Cambria this fall. The helmet has powerful computing power and can capture real-world images with a camera and display them in color inside the helmet in real time.

The Project Cambria helmet could sell for $800 or more, significantly higher than the existing Meta Quest 2 helmet.

The Connect conference is expected to last all day and will be streamed online. In addition to Project Cambria,Meta, he is expected to talk about meta-cosmic social networking app Horizon Worlds.

Meta believes it can eventually replace smartphones with VR / AR lightweight glasses, and it is working on it.