Meta Connect 2022 gets a date and Zuckerberg teases Oculus Quest 2 successor

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Meta has just announced that Meta Connect 2022 will take place on October 11, and we may finally get a glimpse of its next VR headset: Project Cambria.

While this year’s Meta Connect might not be as wild as last year’s event – which saw the company announce its bold metaverse ambitions and change its name from Facebook – it should give us a better look at Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 successor, the so-called Project Cambria VR headset.

It’s worth noting that while Meta hasn’t explicitly said that Cambria – which will most likely officially be called the Quest Pro – will be in attendance, it's strongly been hinted at it. 

For starters, at the 2021 Connect Meta promised we’d see Cambria launch in 2022, which is only a few months away from ending; combined with this year’s show’s promise(opens in new tab) to give attendees “a look at what’s to come in the near and far future” for its metaverse ambitions and we can safely guess that Cambria will get some stage time.

But that’s not all. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that we’d see Meta’s “next VR headset” in October while appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience; plus a post on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page(opens in new tab) that says “See you at Meta Connect on Oct 11” we see him wearing some shadowy VR headset that looks nothing like a Quest 2, but a lot like the Project Cambria render Meta shared in 2021.

So, we’re pretty much guaranteed to see Meta show off its next VR headset during October's event. But will Apple beat it to the punch?

At the time of writing, we’re just hours away from the next Apple event – which will almost certainly be the launch party for the iPhone 14. 

But beyond Apple’s new best smartphone, we’ll also likely see the hotly anticipated Apple Watch 8 and AirPods Pro 2