The virtual reality market still hasn’t taken off despite the billions that have been invested in it over the years. Facebook and Google both have been at the frontier of these innovations due to their investments in this space. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion. Google spent hundreds of millions investing in their Google glasses and Magic Leap. Despite all that investment, the industry still hasn’t taken off.
Facebook is working on a virtual reality (VR) project called “Project Cambria”. Mark Zuckerberg the company’s CEO teased it during their recent connect conference on Thursday. The device will be released next year and yet another high-end VR headset Facebook has up its sleeve.
It will come with interesting features such as new sensors that will allow the virtual avatar to maintain eye contact and reflect your facial expressions. Another interesting feature is the mixed reality feature. Facebook claims Cambria will have the capability to represent objects in the physical world with a sense of depth and perspective.
They still haven’t delved deeply into the overall capabilities of the product but is this enough to get them to the mass market? Time will tell but with incremental improvements, it will get there.
