{"id":129964,"date":"2021-11-04T02:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/meta-offered-a-glimpse-into-the-xr-rd-thats-costing-it-billions"},"modified":"2021-11-04T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:15:18","slug":"meta-offered-a-glimpse-into-the-xr-rd-thats-costing-it-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/meta-offered-a-glimpse-into-the-xr-rd-thats-costing-it-billions","title":{"rendered":"Meta Offered a Glimpse into the XR R&amp;D That\u2019s Costing It Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-offered-a-glimpse-into-the-xr-rd-thats-costing-it-billions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs\u2019 Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&amp;D that\u2019s behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/facebook-expects-its-2021-xr-investments-to-total-10-billion-even-more-in-2022-beyond\/\">the company\u2019s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Abrash leads the team at Meta Reality Labs Research which has been tasked with researching technologies that the company believes could be foundational to XR and the metaverse decades in the future. At Connect 2,021 Abrash shared some of the group\u2019s very latest work.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Codec Avatar project aims to achieve a system capable of capturing and representing photorealistic avatars for use in XR. A major challenge beyond simply \u2018scanning\u2019 a person\u2019s body is getting it to then move in realistic ways\u2014not to mention making the whole system capable of running in real-time so that the avatar can be used in an interactive context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs\u2019 Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&amp;D that\u2019s behind the company\u2019s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse. Michael Abrash leads the team at Meta Reality Labs Research which has been tasked with researching technologies that the company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}