Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes

Meta previewed a few of its newest digital actuality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at subsequent week’s SIGGRAPH convention. The intention, in line with Meta’s blog post, is to supply VR experiences “indistinguishable from the bodily world” — one thing it says no present-day VR system has but executed. It needs to surpass what it phrases the visible Turing take a look at.

“Our mission for this challenge was to offer the very best picture high quality doable,” mentioned Xuan Wang, an optical analysis scientist with Actuality Labs Analysis’s Optics, Photonics and Mild Programs (OPALS) staff.

And Meta’s Tiramisu challenge seemingly has the numbers to again up these ambitions. It guarantees 3 times the distinction, 14 occasions the utmost brightness and three.6 occasions the angular decision of the Meta Quest 3. The headset gives 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular decision of 90 pixels per diploma.

It’s a piece in progress, nonetheless. Tiramisu has a subject of view of simply 33 levels by 33 levels in comparison with the 110 levels horizontal and 96 levels vertical FOV within the Meta Quest 3. It additionally appears to be like like Google’s Daydream, from again within the day.

Conversely, one other pair of prototypes, codenamed Boba 3, leans into an ultrawide subject of view. It has a 180-degree FOV, when human imaginative and prescient extends to round 200 levels. Additionally, they’re roughly the identical measurement as present VR headsets.

— Mat Smith

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