{"id":138426,"date":"2022-04-22T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/facebooks-newest-proof-of-concept-vr-headset-looks-like-a-pair-of-sunglasses"},"modified":"2022-04-22T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:03:04","slug":"facebooks-newest-proof-of-concept-vr-headset-looks-like-a-pair-of-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/facebooks-newest-proof-of-concept-vr-headset-looks-like-a-pair-of-sunglasses","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s newest proof-of-concept VR headset looks like a pair of sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebooks-newest-proof-of-concept-vr-headset-looks-like-a-pair-of-sunglasses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Facebook has shown off a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.fb.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality\/\">new proof-of-concept virtual reality headset<\/a>, and it has a completely different design than most other VR devices on the market today. Instead of a bulky contraption that covers up the top half of your face and has to be strapped to your head, this proof-of-concept headset looks kind of like a pair of large sunglasses that can sit comfortably on your ears.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Facebook is billing this new device as not a pair of augmented reality glasses, as common conceptions of AR devices go, but a legitimate VR product. They\u2019re very thin, with a display thickness of less than 9mm, and Facebook claims they have a field of view that\u2019s \u201ccomparable to today\u2019s consumer VR products.\u201d Here\u2019s a top-down view:<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-concept glasses aren\u2019t just thin for looks, though \u2014 they also apparently beam images to your eyes in a way that\u2019s different than standard VR headsets on the market today. I\u2019ll let <a href=\"https:\/\/research.fb.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality\/\">Facebook\u2019s research team<\/a> explain one of those techniques, called \u201cholographic optics:\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 Facebook has shown off a new proof-of-concept virtual reality headset, and it has a completely different design than most other VR devices on the market today. Instead of a bulky contraption that covers up the top half of your face and has to be strapped to your head, this proof-of-concept headset looks kind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138426","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}