According to reports from Yonhap News Agency and Daily Economy,Meta Chief Executive OfficerZuckerbergHe arrived in Gimpo, Seoul, South Korea at around 10 p.m. local time on the 27th. This was Zuckerberg's first visit to South Korea in 10 years.
Zuckerberg will hold a private event at Meta Korea in Gangnam, Seoul on the 28th (today), inviting the heads of at least 5 Korean XR startups to attend and communicate with them.
Zuckerberg will also meet separately LG President Cho Joo-wan, CEO of ElectronicsSamsungThe meeting with Cho Ju-wan will discuss the design and production cooperation of the next-generation Quest headset, and the meeting with Lee Jae-yong will seek cooperation in the field of AI. It is expected that the two sides will also discussMake Facebook the default app on Samsung smartphonesmatters.
In addition, the industry predicts that Samsung Foundry will also discuss inference chip-related matters with Zuckerberg to drive the large-scale language model (LLM) "Llama 3" that Meta is developing.
South Korea's Economic Daily once quoted industry sources as saying that Meta will launch the next-generation Quest Pro head-mounted VR device in the first half of next year, and that the project was completed in cooperation with South Korea's LG Group.
This isn’t the first time Meta has partnered with a consumer electronics giant to develop VR devices. Previously, Gear VR’s hardware was provided by Samsung, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. All three products are printed with the brand logos of the partner companies and the Oculus brand logo. It’s not clear how the LG brand will be integrated into the Quest Pro 2, or even whether the product will eventually be named Quest Pro 2.