{"id":52831,"date":"2025-08-08T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:10:07","slug":"meta-teases-high-spec-vr-headset-prototypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52831\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week\u2019s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta\u2019s blog post<\/a>, is to offer VR experiences \u201cindistinguishable from the physical world\u201d \u2014 something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission for this project was to provide the best image quality possible,\u201d said Xuan Wang, an optical research scientist with Reality Labs Research\u2019s Optics, Photonics and Light Systems (OPALS) team.<\/p>\n

And Meta\u2019s Tiramisu project seemingly has the numbers to back up those ambitions. It promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. The headset offers 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a work in progress, however. Tiramisu has a field of view of just 33 degrees by 33 degrees compared to the 110 degrees horizontal and 96 degrees vertical FOV in the Meta Quest 3. It also looks like Google\u2019s Daydream<\/a>, from back in the day.<\/p>\n

\"TMA\"<\/p>\n

Conversely, another pair of prototypes, codenamed Boba 3, leans into an ultrawide field of view. It has a 180-degree FOV, when human vision extends to around 200 degrees. Also, they\u2019re roughly the same size as current VR headsets.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n

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The news you might have missedEveryone else says differently.<\/p>\n

A Pew Research Center report last month shed light on Google\u2019s AI Overviews\u2019 effect on web publishing, showing an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. But this week, Google Search head Liz Reid penned a blog post that puts quite a different spin on things. Naturally, she claims click quality and Google Search\u2019s total organic click volume to websites has been \u201crelatively stable\u201d year over year. Reid also said Google sends more \u201cquality clicks\u201d (visitors who don\u2019t quickly bounce) to websites than a year ago.<\/p>\n

She shared no numbers, however.<\/p>\n

Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s safer, faster and more accurate than OpenAI\u2019s past models.<\/p>\n

OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5 and says it has across-the-board enhancements. The company claims the model is its best yet for coding, writing, safety, accuracy and more. At the start of the year, Altman said GPT-5 would offer a unified experience for users, and the new model delivers on that promise.<\/p>\n

For the first time, OpenAI\u2019s default offering is a reasoning model, meaning the system is programmed to tackle complex problems by breaking them into smaller parts. Previously, if you wanted to force ChatGPT to use one of OpenAI\u2019s reasoning models, you had to select the Think Longer option from the prompt bar. This meant most free users didn\u2019t even know OpenAI had more capable models.<\/p>\n

Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n

Powerful, but not for everyone.\"TMA\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Framework\u2019s 2025 edition of its Desktop PC is powerful, particularly for creative professionals and developers. It uses an AMD Ryzen AI Max APU, which is a workstation-level chip, but to integrate it, the CPU and RAM are soldered directly to the mainboard, making them non-upgradable. The DIY Edition of the Desktop fortunately requires minimal setup, but this isn\u2019t the easy-to-make gaming PC you might be hoping for: It\u2019s better suited to productivity tasks, like running AI models and video editing.<\/p>\n

Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to get a webcam, make it a Pirhana Plant.\"TMA\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got a Switch 2 but haven\u2019t yet dived into the camera functionality, here\u2019s a good reason to. HORI\u2019s Piranha Plant camera is on sale right now for only $40<\/a>. That\u2019s $20 off and a good deal for anyone who wants to take advantage of the Switch 2\u2019s camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World. It even comes with a plant pot stand if you want to use it not directly plugged into the Switch 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29182,844,5677,29183,86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":{"0":"post-52831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-angular-resolution","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-search","11":"tag-prototypes","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-virtual-reality","17":"tag-virtualreality","18":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}