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India Today
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Meta previews wild new VR headsets with 4K eyes, 180-degree FoV and near-real visuals
Meta has given the world a closer look at some of its most ambitious VR headset projects yet. At the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference, Meta pulled back the curtain on several experimental devices, each claimed and designed to push virtual reality closer to the point where it feels indistinguishable from real life. The highlight was Tiramisu, a prototype featuring an ultra-sharp display with 90 pixels per degree and brightness levels up to 14 times greater than the Meta Quest 3. advertisementAccording to Meta, the visuals are so convincing that the headset comes close to passing the so-called 'visual Turing test,' where the human brain struggles to tell VR apart from reality. Alongside Tiramisu, Meta also showcased a lightweight, glasses-style headset codenamed Puffin and two wide field-of-view prototypes nicknamed Boba, all offering very different visions of VR's Puffin headset takes a very different approach to design. Weighing under 110 grams, it is far lighter than typical VR headsets and swaps traditional controllers for gaze and pinch controls, similar to the Apple Vision Pro. Instead of packing all the processing power into the headset itself, Puffin uses a separate battery and compute puck that can be clipped to a belt or slipped into a pocket. This helps keep weight and heat off the user's head, making it more comfortable for extended sessions. Inside, it features eye-tracking technology, high-resolution passthrough cameras and micro-OLED displays. Meta is positioning Puffin as a headset for non-gaming uses, with a focus on productivity, communication and augmented reality experiences. It will run on the company's new Navigator-style Horizon OS. Meanwhile, the Boba 3 and Boba 3 VR prototypes are all about immersion through an expanded field of view. Both deliver 4K-by-4K resolution per eye and stretch visuals across a staggering 180 degrees horizontally and 120 degrees vertically. This makes them ideal for experiences where peripheral vision is crucial, such as simulation training or cinematic VR. While these devices are still early-stage prototypes, Meta has built them using current-generation lens technology, suggesting they could be more than just futuristic now, Meta's main VR headset on the market is the Quest 3, which has been well-received for its balance of performance, mixed reality features and price. The company is also experimenting beyond VR, with its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses gaining new AI-powered abilities such as real-time translation, object recognition and hands-free video capture.- Ends
Tom's Guide
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Meta's new VR headset prototype is so advanced it passes the 'visual Turing test' — but would you look at the size of it?
While Mark Zuckerberg may be adamant that AI smart glasses are the future, Meta isn't giving up on virtual reality just yet. The company has just revealed its latest VR headset prototype, codenamed "Tiramisu." And it is, to put it nicely, absurdly large. As you can see in the image above, this headset is pretty gargantuan, and it reminds me of scenes in Futurama where Bender extends his eyes out of his head. Needless to say, this thing looks very front-heavy and rather uncomfortable to wear. That said, Meta claims that this is the closest any of its headsets have come to "passing the visual Turing test." In other words, Meta is inching closer to being able to trick your eyes into thinking they're looking at the real world — not some metaverse landscape that's blander than my grandmother's grilled chicken. Whether those claims hold any water is not clear, because we haven't tested the headset for ourselves. And the fact it's a prototype, with its absurd design, means we're not likely to be doing so anytime soon. Meta Reality Labs just showed their new VR headset prototype called Tiramisu which offers stunning realism with 90 PPD, ultra-high contrast and brightness 14x that of Quest 3. It's bulky with a narrow FOV but offers a glimpse of what could be visually possible in the future. 7, 2025 Apparently this headset offers 90 pixels per degree (PPD), which is considerably higher than what we can buy right now. Apple Vision Pro is 34 PPD, while Meta Quest 3 offers 26 PPD. Apparently, such high pixel density means that even the smallest on-screen lettering is legible to the wearer. The brightness is also claimed to be 14 times higher than the Quest 3 (1,400 nits), with ultra-high contrast. Meta claims there's something called "angular resolution" thrown in, which helps with those finer details, and promises to be 3.6 times better than the Quest 3's capabilities. That all sounds pretty darn impressive, at least on paper. The downside is the design of the headset itself. The bulk is a big issue, but it's also claimed that the Trismus headset has a narrow field of view. Just 33 x 33 degrees, in fact, which is pretty poor. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Needless to say, it's going to be hard to convince your brain you're not looking at a virtual landscape without matching (or ideally slightly exceeding) the same field of view as our eyes. Those black areas inside the headset would be a dead giveaway that it's all fake. That's before you consider the actual weight and feel of the headset itself. Still, progress is progress no matter how limited it might be in certain areas. The only way is forward from here. You're not likely to see such high-end specs in a consumer VR headset anytime soon. Not only does Meta need to figure out the field of view and bulk problems, the cost factor will also come into play. This stuff is going to be horrendously expensive, and as we've seen with the Apple Vision Pro, no amount of high-tech wizardry can make people buy something that's astronomically priced. For now, the closest you'll be getting to this is eating an actual tiramisu while wearing a Quest 3. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Engadget
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
The Morning After: Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes
Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week's SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta's blog post, is to offer VR experiences 'indistinguishable from the physical world' — something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test. 'Our mission for this project was to provide the best image quality possible,' said Xuan Wang, an optical research scientist with Reality Labs Research's Optics, Photonics and Light Systems (OPALS) team. And Meta's Tiramisu project seemingly has the numbers to back up those ambitions. It promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. The headset offers 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree. It's a work in progress, however. Tiramisu has a field of view of just 33 degrees by 33 degrees compared to the 110 degrees horizontal and 96 degrees vertical FOV in the Meta Quest 3. It also looks like Google's Daydream, from back in the day. Conversely, another pair of prototypes, codenamed Boba 3, leans into an ultrawide field of view. It has a 180-degree FOV, when human vision extends to around 200 degrees. Also, they're roughly the same size as current VR headsets. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The news you might have missed Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks Everyone else says differently. A Pew Research Center report last month shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing, showing an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. But this week, Google Search head Liz Reid penned a blog post that puts quite a different spin on things. Naturally, she claims click quality and Google Search's total organic click volume to websites has been 'relatively stable' year over year. Reid also said Google sends more 'quality clicks' (visitors who don't quickly bounce) to websites than a year ago. She shared no numbers, however. Continue reading. OpenAI's GPT-5 is here, and it's free for everyone It's safer, faster and more accurate than OpenAI's past models. OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5 and says it has across-the-board enhancements. The company claims the model is its best yet for coding, writing, safety, accuracy and more. At the start of the year, Altman said GPT-5 would offer a unified experience for users, and the new model delivers on that promise. For the first time, OpenAI's default offering is a reasoning model, meaning the system is programmed to tackle complex problems by breaking them into smaller parts. Previously, if you wanted to force ChatGPT to use one of OpenAI's reasoning models, you had to select the Think Longer option from the prompt bar. This meant most free users didn't even know OpenAI had more capable models. Continue reading. Framework Desktop (2025) review Powerful, but not for everyone. Framework's 2025 edition of its Desktop PC is powerful, particularly for creative professionals and developers. It uses an AMD Ryzen AI Max APU, which is a workstation-level chip, but to integrate it, the CPU and RAM are soldered directly to the mainboard, making them non-upgradable. The DIY Edition of the Desktop fortunately requires minimal setup, but this isn't the easy-to-make gaming PC you might be hoping for: It's better suited to productivity tasks, like running AI models and video editing. Continue reading. The most fun Switch 2 accessory is on sale If you're going to get a webcam, make it a Pirhana Plant. If you've got a Switch 2 but haven't yet dived into the camera functionality, here's a good reason to. HORI's Piranha Plant camera is on sale right now for only $40. That's $20 off and a good deal for anyone who wants to take advantage of the Switch 2's camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World. It even comes with a plant pot stand if you want to use it not directly plugged into the Switch 2. If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.
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Business Standard
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Meta's research prototypes highlight mixed reality headset future: Details
Meta will showcase three virtual and mixed reality headset prototypes at the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference in Vancouver, Canada on August 11. The devices, named Tiramisu, Boba 3, and Boba 3 VR, are described as 'purely research prototypes' featuring experimental technologies that may never enter consumer production. The company said these designs focus on advancing display quality, field of view (FOV), and realism in immersive environments. The three headsets explore two distinct approaches to improving immersion. Tiramisu targets image fidelity and brightness, while Boba 3 and Boba 3 VR aim to expand peripheral vision. Each model prioritises different trade-offs in size, weight, and GPU demands. Tiramisu: Pushing VR clarity Meta said that the Tiramisu is designed for near-photorealistic VR visuals through high dynamic range, denser pixels, and advanced optics to minimise visual artefacts such as the screen-door effect. Key specifications: Angular resolution: 90 pixels per degree (PPD) — about 3.6 times the PPD of Quest 3. (PPD is a measure of image detail relative to visual angle). Contrast: Roughly 3 times that of the Quest 3. Peak brightness: Up to 1,400 nits — about 14 times Quest 3. Field of view: 33 degrees × 33 degrees (narrow). Optics and displays: Dual high-resolution microOLED panels and custom glass lenses. Trade-offs: Bulkier and heavier than consumer headsets; limited FOV; high rendering cost offset in part by NVIDIA DLSS 3. Boba 3 and Boba 3 VR: Wider perspective Boba 3 is a mixed reality prototype with high-resolution passthrough video and an ultrawide FOV for enhanced peripheral vision, blending physical and digital worlds more seamlessly. Boba 3 VR removes passthrough components, focusing solely on VR immersion while retaining optical upgrades, potentially lowering power demands and weight. Key specifications (both models): Horizontal FOV: 180 degrees Vertical FOV: 120 degrees Per-eye resolution: 4K x 4K (up from 3K x 3K in Boba 2 and 2K x 1K in Boba 1) Optical approach: mass-production displays with high-curvature reflective polarisers and pancake lenses. Weight: Boba 3 prototype around 840 g; Boba 3 VR variant around 660 g (Quest 3 w/ Elite strap around 698 g). Passthrough: Boba 3 includes high-resolution passthrough sensors for mixed reality. Boba 3 VR removes passthrough components and focuses on native VR. Differences between Boba 3 and Boba 3 VR Boba 3: Mixed reality with passthrough sensors, heavier due to additional hardware. Boba 3 VR: VR-only, streamlined hardware, reduced weight, and lower power consumption.
Engadget
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR
Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual stats, that's up to 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree. One of the goals for Reality Labs Research's Optics, Photonics and Light Systems (OPALS) team is to create a virtual reality experience that is indistinguishable from the real world, or what it calls a visual Turing test. "Our mission for this project was to provide the best image quality possible," said Xuan Wang, an optical research scientist with OPALS. But the team achieved that quality with some tradeoffs; Tiramisu has a limited field of view of just 33 degrees by 33 degrees compared to the 110 degrees horizontal and 96 degrees vertical FOV in the Meta Quest 3. And the form factor is currently a pretty bulky beast, as you can see above. Meta researcher wearing the Boba 3 headset (Meta) The other prototypes detailed in the company's blog post are Boba 3 headsets. These mixed and virtual reality headsets offer an ultrawide field of view. All three projects will be on display during the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference in Vancouver next week.
