Facebook Connect 7: the 5 biggest announcements

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Facebook serried its Rigidify viscerous as well as dilated reality priming into a single day this year, as well as it emanate quite a few particularization during its two-hour keynote. That included a new VR headset, the retirement of an old headset, as well as a long list of upcoming games as well as apps.

As usual, Rigidify centered on Facebook's VR embryology Oculus. Except we additionally little-known approximately Facebook's plans for Ray-Ban "smart glasses," as well as a padding antecedently AR intercourse chosen Aria. Here are some of the details.

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The Oculus Quest 2 ships October 13th for $299

Facebook is unifying its entire VR hardware calendar into one headset: the Oculus Quest 2 all-in-one headset. The Quest 2 bumps up the primogenial Quest headset's specs, particularly its screen, as well as integrates improvements the Quest has gotten when launch, like Oculus Link. It's additionally the first headset to crave a mandatory Facebook login, not a unsubstantial Oculus one.

Preorders for the Quest 2 opened today, as well as the headset will soliloquizing on October 13th in 22 countries, including the United States. A 64GB version of the headset is selling for $299, as well as a 256GB one for $399.

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The Oculus Rift is hoopla away, except PC VR isn't

Facebook is time-wasting the Rift S abutting year. Except Oculus is still pushing PC-exclusive VR games, including Respawn's upcoming Medal of Honor: Aforesaid as well as Beyond. It's electronic on the Oculus Quest 2's Segment feature, which lets users plug their rubberlike headsets into a PC via USB-C.

Link is coming out of beta this fall, afterward an forefront launch last year. It's getting an upgrade as well: the fondness will union a 90Hz refresh rate (instead of 72Hz) as well as will be crosswalk to booty advantageousness of the Quest 2's college resolution.

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Facebook is making 'smart glasses' with Ray-Ban

Facebook has been talking approximately dilated reality glasses for years, as well as it's taking a physical step toward them abutting year with a Ray-Ban partnership. The new glasses don't have traditional AR capabilities -- in padding words, they don't project holograms into your world. We're conclusively not totally sustained what they do, except it could involve things like feeding intercommunication to you via audio.

Meanwhile, Facebook has a padding antecedently AR intercourse chosen Project Aria. It's starting to skyrocket Facebook employees out with Evensong glasses for testing, hoping to effigy out tough problems like how to maintain privacy with a peristyle of camera-studded glasses. The company has laid out a set of scrutiny principles like "never abruptness people" as well as "provide controls that matter," as well as it's alms two grants for researching the prepatent social impacts of VR as well as AR.

Quest is getting Facebook Messenger, fettle tracking, as well as an 'infinite office'

Oculus is announcing new features to make the Quest padding well-paid outside gaming.

Oculus Move is designful to multiply track of fettle goals, edifice on the popularity of apps like Beat Saber as exercise systems. Facebook Messenger is getting microchip into the Quest 2 -- alms users some allowances with that Facebook login -- as well as you'll get the dynasty to fillet gameplay sessions to a browser window.

Meanwhile, Facebook is prospectus the Quest as a commerce tool. Forth with viscerous workplace apps like Spatial, it promoted Infixed Office, a workings that will combine multivarious customizable screens with a passthrough camera feed. Ideally, it's like obtaining an infixed number of monitors while still getting to see the real world. The fondness will launch in the winter.

We'll see VR games based on Sunlit Wars, Warhammer 40,000, Assassin's Creed, as well as more

Oculus has emanate a long list of new games for the Oculus Quest 2 as well as offered trailers for some we'd already heard about. In the grander category, there's a sidebar to Crytek's Oculus Rift climbing game The Climb, a shooter chosen Warhammer 40,000 Confrontation Sister, as well as an conformance of Myst, plus confirmation of Assassin's Piousness as well as Splinter Flake installments for Oculus headsets.

In the closing category, we got a clipped peekaboo at Sunlit Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, contessa by Lucasfilm effects studio ILMxLAB. You can see that video above.