Facebook works on thin and light-weight VR glasses like sunglasses.
Facebook's work on VR, virtual reality technology, continues. Now, the new Facebook VR model has appeared. New information shows that Facebook is doing serious work on making VR technology available quite simply.
New Facebook VR glasses model appeared. Facebook VR glasses model will be like sunglasses.
Accelerating its work on virtual reality day by day, Facebook is now designing lighter and daily-use VR glasses. Facebook's new VR glasses resemble a standard sunglasses from a distance.
Facebook was known to be working on light models that can be worn on a daily basis, even though we have come up with standard Oculus VR glasses that look big and complex to date. The social media giant has introduced a holographic optics architecture that will fit future glasses into lighter and smaller sized VR glasses than high-performance AR / VR devices.
The emerging virtual reality glasses seem to attract the most attention with their new design. The new VR glasses, which look like any sunglasses, are now showing themselves as one of the prototype examples. According to the statements made, the new glasses use multi-layered holographic films to create virtual reality images. The mechanism, which works like a kind of projection, can create a three-dimensional image.
Facebook continues to work to shrink and lighten VR glasses.
The technology laid out in a Siggraph 2020 research article entitled "Thin and Light Holographic Optics for Virtual Reality" uses flat films to create a slightly thicker VR screen than smartphones. Facebook's new design combines several thin layers of holographic film with a laser projection system and directed backlights to offer straight images or three-dimensional holograms. The thickness of the optical system can vary from 11 mm to 9 mm.
The new Facebook VR glasses model can create images with a resolution of 1200 x 1600 pixels.
According to the information announced at the moment, each screen in wearable prototype form offers a roughly 1200x1600 pixel resolution, with a 93-degree circle or a rectangular field of view from 92 to 69 degrees. Despite Oculus Quest's weight of 571 grams, prototypes are being developed in a glasses-like form with a weight of about 10 grams. The researchers announced that they could cut the parts and change the materials to reach a weight of 6.6 grams equivalent to sunglasses, but by doing so they would sacrifice performance.
As it is known, Facebook continues to work on the side of virtual reality with Oculus VR. However, the ease of use, which is the biggest criticism of the users, is still one of the obstacles in front of VR technology. Indeed, it seems that Facebook is trying to find a solution to this issue.
Facebook's new technology is not currently available. The researchers developed a total of three prototypes, including a full-color display and two wearable prototypes that offer green images on a black background in a moving or static form. Explaining that they can offer a completely colorful prototype by adding a holographic backlight or lens to the system, the researchers state that they need more engineering work to reach this point.
Facebook's goal in virtual reality is high resolution and wide viewing angles.
Researchers think the new system is approaching to offer a more convenient and lightweight VR solution than HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 1, which are limited to about 40 degrees of view. Facebook's goal is to offer both high resolution and a wide viewing area. So, instead of just looking at a small window, people will be able to experience the content more realistically.
Facebook is not the only company working on holographic optical systems. Akonia, owned by Apple, was also working on similar solutions years ago and tried to patent a retina hologram projector system among other XR display technologies. Samsung and Sony supported DigiLens' thin film holographic waveguide display.