Fb will host its seventh annual Fb Join digital and augmented actuality convention in the present day. Previously referred to as Oculus Join, the occasion will stream on-line beginning round 1pm ET.
The social community is anticipated to announce a brand new, widely leaked Oculus Quest VR headset. We might additionally see a number of new VR video games, new Spark AR options and updates on Facebook’s Horizon virtual world, in addition to particulars in regards to the firm’s long-term AR headset plans.
Fb Join 7 will begin with a keynote that goes dwell at 12:55pm ET/9:55am PT. These all in favour of tuning in can accomplish that by the Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) webpage. FRL is Fb’s AR and VR division.
Together with the keynote, FRL consists of hyperlinks to different Join 7 occasions, together with a chat from Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT and an after-party live performance from Jaden Smith beginning at 10pm ET/7pm PT.
It’s price noting that these with an Oculus Quest VR headset will have the ability to watch the occasions in VR by Fb’s ‘Venues’ platform. Nonetheless, The Verge notes that Venues is at the moment in beta and isn’t out there to everybody.
One other attention-grabbing change is that this marks the primary time Fb has dropped the ‘Oculus’ identify from the occasion. Whereas it stays unclear what, if any, distinction that may make for Join, the occasion has coated extra than simply Oculus for some time now. The Verge factors out that Fb has began folding VR into extra of its primary choices and it’s requiring a Fb account to log into future headsets.
Fb may very well be shifting in direction of a extra bundled future with Oculus and VR/AR tightly wound into the core Fb expertise. Nonetheless, that is still to be seen.
These can take a look at all of the day’s occasions and tune into keynotes here.
