Facebook Reveals New Virtual Reality Headset

Facebook announced the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset. The new Oculus Quest 2 glasses feature a powerful processor (Snapdragon XR2) from Qualcomm of America, which provides the glasses with artificial intelligence capabilities, and the glasses also contain a random access memory (RAM) size of 6 GB .

Also, it come with two screens, each with a resolution of 1920 x 1832 pixels, 50 percent higher than the Oculus Quest sunglasses. The screen also supports a high refresh rate of 90 Hz.

According to Facebook, the new Oculus Quest 2 glasses give the user access to many video games, such as: Star Wars Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Myst, Jurassic World Aftermath, and Warhammer 40,000 Battle Sister, Pistol Whip 2089, The Climb 2, and Rez Infinite.

Facebook promoted the Quest as its primary VR headset last year, leaving the Rift S out of upgrades like controller-free hand tracking.

Oculus has maintained for years that the Rift line is a “gold standard” for playing high-end PC games. But the Rift S a successor to the original 2016Oculus Rift came with compromises, including lenses with no focus adjustment.

In contrast, Facebook recently discontinued its Oculus Go headset, and a Rift retirement isn’t necessarily surprising.

On other hand, the firm released its own Climate Science Information Center today, ahead of climate week celebrated between September 21 and September 27.

The Climate Science Information Center, modeled after the Covid-19 pandemic information hub, is a dedicated space on Facebook featuring facts, figures, and data from the world’s leading climate organizations.

According to Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook’s chief executive, explained that this space has factual resources from the world’s leading climate organizations, and actionable steps people can take to deal with climate change.

Noteworthy, Facebook is planing to achieve net zero carbon emissions for its global operations in 2020, and aims to reach net zero emissions for its entire value chain in 2030.

Facebook’s examples of these efforts include the company’s data center in Odense, Denmark, which is fully supported by wind energy, and the data center in Clonee, Ireland, where the company has added a variety of native plants to support bee populations in the area and introduced a program to cultivate half bee hives.