Meta today announced that its next installment of Connect, the company’s annual XR developer conference, is again going digital this year.
Meta Reveals VR Headset Prototypes Designed to Make VR ‘Indistinguishable From Reality’
Meta says its ultimate goal with its VR hardware is to make a comfortable, compact headset with visual finality that’s ‘indistinguishable from reality’.
Prototype Meta Headset Includes Custom Silicon for Photorealistic Avatars on Standalone
Researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a prototype VR headset with a custom-built accelerator chip specially designed to handle AI processing to make it possible to render the company’s photorealistic Codec Avatars on a standalone headset.
Reality Labs Chief Scientist Outlines a New Compute Architecture for True AR Glasses
Speaking at the IEDM conference late last year, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist Michael Abrash laid out the company’s analysis of how contemporary compute architectures will need to evolve to make possible the AR glasses of our sci-fi conceptualizations.