Here’s Mark Zuckerberg demonstrating Meta’s high-end Project Cambria VR headset

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Mark Zuckerberg just shared a short demo video showcasing some of the capabilities of Meta's upcoming high-end virtual reality headset. Meta highlights the upcoming headset's ability to do high-resolution, full-color passthrough so that wearers can interact with virtual objects superimposed onto their real-life environments.

Meta's Presence Platform was introduced last fall and is used to build the mixed reality experience. Current Quest headsets are only capable of showing passthrough content in shades of gray, but Project Cambria will have higher resolution image sensors to make the real world look better inside the headset.

The demo reel shows a character from the Oppy video and its environment over the real world. It also includes clips of other Meta AR projects, which could mean that you will wear one of these to visit a virtual office environment and work on your cloud workstation using augmented reality.

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We didn't get any new information on the hardware. Janko Roettgers at Protocol was able to try out the unit for a short time, and he said the video quality produced by the sensors is not as good as it could be.

The World Beyond is a demo that will be available in the App Lab for developers to try out. Meta plans to introduce several virtual reality headsets over the next several years, and using its tech to help developers build augmented reality experiences that more people will want to visit is just one step in the plan. The book is supposed to come out this year.

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