Meta’s reportedly shopping for exclusive content on its upcoming VR headset

“Loma” could beryllium an AR headset akin to the Meta Ray-Bans (pictured)

The Wall Street Journal reports Meta is successful talks with Disney and A24 to effort and unafraid exclusive streaming contented for a caller headset it’s developing. WSJ says Meta’s caller instrumentality is simply a glasses-like headset codenamed “Loma,” with an outer puck you gaffe into your pocket. Meta is reportedly seeking caller and existing licensed contented that would beryllium exclusive to its level connected VR oregon arsenic timed exclusives. 

That puck plan sounds similar Meta’s precocious rumored “Puffin” headset, which is reportedly successful improvement and could win the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. UploadVR described Puffin arsenic an highly airy open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, and Loma could precise good be Puffin, oregon go it astatine immoderate point.

Meta’s ain Andrew “Boz” Bosworth has said publicly that Meta has assorted prototypes successful improvement astatine each times, including ones that ne'er spot the airy of day, and aft the WSJ published its study Wednesday, helium reposted his connection astir prototypes from past autumn that adds “…stories based connected chatter astir 1 idiosyncratic determination volition ne'er springiness the existent picture.”  Puffin, Loma, oregon different akin options could beryllium successful 1 of the prototyping stages Bosworth discussed with The Verge’s ain Alex Heath past October. 

Either way, WSJ mentions Meta’s program for Loma would acceptable a terms that’s “more than the $300 starting terms for a Quest, but little than the $3,500 basal terms of a Vision Pro, according to immoderate of the people.”