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Hands-On with Meta's New VR Headset Prototypes!

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Norman Chan tests four Meta Reality Labs research prototypes addressing VR display challenges like resolution, brightness, and focus shifting.

We get a glimpse of what future generations of virtual reality displays from Meta could look like with a trip to Reality Labs Research, where we meet the Display Systems Research team and try on four of their prototype VR headsets that test the limits of resolution, brightness, focus shifting, and form factor. Here are our takeaways from exclusive hands-on time with these research prototypes, and an in-depth interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the future of VR display technology. Shot by Josh Self and edited by Norman Chan Music by Jinglepunks Additional video provided courtesy of Meta Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks: youtube.com/channel/UCiDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA/join Tested Ts, stickers, mugs and more: tested-store.com Subscribe for more videos (and click the bell for notifications): youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testedcom Twitter: twitter.com/testedcom Facebook: facebook.com/testedcom Instagram: instagram.com/testedcom/ Discord: discord.gg/tested Amazon Storefront: amazon.com/shop/adamsavagestested Savage Industries T-shirts: cottonbureau.com/stores/savage-merchandising#/shop Tested is: Adam Savage twitter.com/donttrythis Norman Chan twitter.com/nchan Joey Fameli joeyfameli.com Ryan Kiser instagram.com/ryan.kiser Josh Self twitter.com/puppetflesh Kristen Lomasney twitter.com/krystynlo Jen Schachter jenschachter.com Kishore Hari twitter.com/sciencequiche Sean Charlesworth twitter.com/cworthdynamics Kayte Sabicer instagram.com/kaytesabicer Bill Doran twitter.com/chinbeard Ariel Waldman youtube.com/arielwaldman Darrell Maloney youtube.com/brokennerd Intro bumper by Abe Dieckman Thanks for watching! #virtualreality #vr

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cableshafton Hacker News • Recommends

On “Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds”

…0 minute video where he and Michael Abrash go into the technical challenges, and what they've been doing to address those issues, as well as showing off prototype devices they've been working on1. And there's an hour long episode of Adam Savage's Tested series where they get to try the prototypes and go into even more detail2. 1: link 2: link to this video…
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johnfnon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Meta’s metaverse hype leads to real-world backlash”

Why are we deluged with such low quality, low interest, low curiosity articles - about some screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg's avatar of all things - when plenty of really fascinating and intellectual-curiosity-satisfying information exists out there about the metaverse? For instance, this video: link to this video Especially on Hacker News, of all places! This article is the equivalent of celebrity tabloids. (This comment is probably not written with the best tone, but I am upset. PR mishaps aside, the metaverse is extremely technically interesting. Why HN skips all of that and just does reruns of Zuckerberg's avatar or whatever is beyond me.)
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gpmon Hacker News • Mentions

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First you need VR goggles that you can reasonably work in... These guys are making a go at that: link And facebook is probably going to in the future given the R&D they've been showing off: link to this video But having used the current generations of headsets (Valve Index, Quest 2), they just aren't quite there yet.
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KVFinnon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Meta Quest Pro”

Tested hands on impressions: link to this video Funny thing about the $1500 price point. If the Quest Pro could replace my triple monitors, $1500 is a bargain. It's basically a laptop with 3 monitors that appear out of thin air whenever you want. Amazing. To do this it needs to be comfortable enough to wear all day and it needs to be high enough resolution to stare at text all day. It's at least plausible the Pro is comfortable enough for some based on early impressions. But the displays are not cutting it. I don't think it needs to equal the DPI of a monitor at human viewing distance, but 2160x2160 is still way to low. Maybe 3k would do it with super sampling. Oh and the Quest Pro would need to run an…
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megaman821on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Meta stock price drops more than 20%”

I was watching link to this video about Meta's VR prototypes. They seem pretty clear-headed on where they need to get to, but a lot of it seems like a decade away. At double the price-point of Quest Pro, Apple may solve some of VR's issues (battery-life, speed, ergonomics and looks) but the screen-tech just doesn't exist yet.
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megaman821on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy”

I don't think anyone is going to crack VR in the short term. Watching this tour of Facebook's Reality Labs, link to this video , it seems that they realize the challenges ahead. Looking at these challenges (resolution, brightness, eye tracking, form factor) is there an area where Apple is going to be a generation or more ahead? I think the world will be waiting another decade or so before VR gets anything like phone penetration in the market.
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lhlon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro headset”

…splays (focused on varifocal displays/fixing vergence acommodation conflict) for years. I still think that Doug Lanman's 2020 EIS Plenary presentation is one of the best technical talks of recent memory, and highly recommend watching it to anyone interested in displays: link - Tested had a good demo video of what they have in the labs last year: link to this video and you can read about their DeepFocus work from back in 2018: link or see their Half Dome prototypes going back the same time period: link You can go…
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