Facebook’s double ambitions in virtual and augmented reality could be meeting in the middle with theOculus Quest 2.
Anew developer toolkitfor the Quest allows blending of passthrough cameras with VR graphics, enabling mixed reality.
Color effects can be applied to the black and white camera data, too.
The suggested uses are for work, social and gaming.
Projecting avatars onto the real world is reminiscent of whatMicrosoft Meshis promising usingHoloLens 2.
But with the Oculus Quest 2, it would be done on a $300 consumer headset.