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The Chinese company TCL announced two tiny new LCD displays featuring impressive resolutions and striking pixel density per inch. If the displays are equal to their description these LCD panels will enable smaller and higher-resolution standalone VR headsets.

The first is a 2.1-inch LCD panel. Incidentally, the same size as HTC Vive FLOW, currently acting as the smallest display size on the market. However, where the FLOW delivers a resolution of 1600×1600, the new display prototype from TCL features a 2280×2280 resolution with a 120 Hz refresh rate.

Even more impressive, TCL showcased this first display in a standalone VR HMD: illustrating that such a small-sized LCD panel could enable powerful standalone virtual reality headsets to be created.

The second display that TCL teased as a prototype is only 1.77 inches, making it the smallest display engine for a VR headset on the market. This display has a resolution of 2160×2160, meaning it is lower than the other display, however, the loss of resolution compared to the reduction in size makes it very attractive.

TCL plans to make a big splash in the virtual reality industry with its upcoming LCD displays. Both TCL displays have impressive resolution densities and sizes, enabling crystal clear VR HMDs to be developed for a lower price than if OLED display engines are employed.All in all, with such high resolutions and pixel densities, cramped into such small form factors, TCL may power the next generation of stand-alone virtual reality headsets.

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First, you need to check whether this display has On-cell or In-cell touch panel, if has, it only needs to add a cover glass on it. If not, it needs an external touch panel.

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In a talk titled ‘High-PPI Fast-Switch Display Development for Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets’, Meta display engineer Cheon Hong Kim detailed the headset’s display architecture and discussed the design challenges of using LCD for VR.

It’s essential that displays used in VR headsets only illuminate the pixels for a small fraction of each frame – a technique called Low Persistence. That’s because each frame represents an exact moment in time, whereas in real life as you rotate or move your head the light arriving to your eyes will continuously change. If the pixels were constantly illuminated, your eyes would be receiving light for the original position even as your head turned, and your brain perceives this as motion blur. The original Oculus Rift Development Kit shipped in 2013 had this problem, and it was solved in Development Kit 2 in 2014.

LCD displays were originally thought unsuitable for VR, given the much longer response time. But since the release of the Windows MR headsets in 2017, a new type of LCD panels called ‘fast switch’ have become available. These panels illuminate the backlight for a fraction of the frame, after waiting for the liquid crystal to “settle down”. Quest 2, like Oculus Go and Rift S before it, use such a panel.

The 1920×3664 resolution and 120 Hz max refresh rate were already publicly known, but the talk revealed the panel’s exact 5.46 inch size and density: 773 pixels per inch.

It’s also noteworthy that Meta revealed the panel’s brightness – 100 nits. Keep in mind that figure is when using low persistence, so it would likely be much brighter if used outside a headset.

Meta also revealed some interesting physical properties of the display. Since Quest 2 has three IPD settings and two lenses but only one panel, only a subsection of the panel is used at once. And because the lenses are closer to circular than square, the very corner of the display is never needed – so it was simply cut out to save space.

This approach of using a single panel with an active area subsection means each eye actually gets fewer than the 1832×1920 pixels listed in the Quest 2 specifications on the Meta Store – roughly 1720×1890.

These factors are important considerations when specifying and sourcing panels for VR headsets, but Cheon acknowledged Quest 2 has some of the issues outlined here. Meta still hasn’t released a headset fully free from the screen door effect.

In the conclusions slide, the key display resolution spec of Quest 2 was revealed, the angular resolution measured in pixels per degree. Meta says Quest 2 has 21 pixels per degree. The generally accepted figure for “retinal” human eye resolution is 60 pixels per degree. While VR headsets have been making solid advancements – the Oculus Rift had roughly 14 pixels per degree – there’s still clearly a long way to go.

Finally, Cheon alluded to Meta’s future research and development priorities – to reach the human perceptual limit of 60 pixels per degree using “high PPI micro displays” and “various foveation technologies”.

All VR headsets have the same broad function – they are supposed to beam sights and sounds at your sensory organs. While just about all of them use familiar headphone technology to let us hear what’s going on in the virtual world, their methods of beaming pictures to your eyeballs differ in some very important ways. All HMDs contain some sort of display technology, and which method of making pictures the manufacturer decides to go with has several implications for the final image. So every HMD maker has to think long and hard about the compromises they are willing to make when it comes to picture quality.

Obviously, as a consumer you should also be aware of the pros and cons a given display technology represents when you go to buy your HMD. We should judge such products as a whole, but the display technology implemented is a key consideration.

In this article I’m going to talk about the different display systems that you’re likely to see listed under the specs of modern HMDs. There are three main display technologies that on the market that matter: LCD, OLED, and retinal projection. Let’s look at each one now.

LCDs have been around for a long time, but it hasn’t been that long since these flat display panels have become the norm. It was only in the early 2000s that big, heavy cathode ray tube TVs and monitors started giving way. The main reason for this is that LCD has been far inferior to other display technologies for most of its life. Laptops from the 90s were one of the first practical applications of consumer LCD screens for computers. Their light weight and low power requirements were worth the many visual tradeoffs. After all, a glass CRT is simply not practical for a portable computer, as early “luggable” PCs clearly demonstrated.

Having an LCD in the now-mainstream clamshell form factor meant that people could work anywhere. Unfortunately, they might also have needed glasses or migraine tablets. These monochrome LCDs were fuzzy, had extreme ghosting, and in general didn’t look all that great. Today things are very different. Modern HD and UHD LCD panels are thinner, lighter, and crisper than ever. The picture quality of even entry-level LCD panels is phenomenal, and even lower-end smartphones will have a 720p or 1080p screen built into them.

As the name implies, LCDs use a substance known as liquid crystals. Liquid crystals are not quite solid and not quite liquid – a discovery that challenges the idea that there can be only three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Liquid crystals can take on a number of different “sub-states” between liquid and solid phases. These different subphases also happen to change the light that passes through the liquid crystals in predictable ways. This means you have the rudiments of a display method on your hands.

If you look closely at an LCD display you’ll notice that it’s actually made up of tiny individual dots known as “pixels”, or picture elements. On a CRT screen the pixels are virtual, since they are rendered by a scanning beam. On an LCD the display panel has a fixed number of pixels, which is known as its “native” resolution.

Thanks to the nature of liquid crystals, they change state when you apply electricity to them. Each pixel is made up of several substructures controlled by tiny electronic components. By cleverly manipulating these crystalline subpixels, the LCD panel can create images. Each individual pixel can take on one of millions of colors and different levels of brightness.

That’s a very simplified take on LCD technology, but it’s the basic principle of how it all works. That being said, different LCD technologies have developed over the years; each with their own approach to manipulating liquid crystals. All of them have aimed to improve the image quality in various ways. Some are better at some aspects of image quality than others, while perhaps trading off with image quality factors that are less important for specific use cases.

One important thing your should know about LCD panels right from the start is that they can’t make their own light. The LCD pixels can only manipulate the light that passes through them, which means we have to provide that light.

From the early days of LCD technology until quite recently they’ve used cold-cathode fluorescent lights to provide the illumination. This worked OK, but caused uneven brightness across the surface of the LCD panel. Thanks to advancements in light emitting diode (LED) technology, we no longer use cold cathodes for light. Instead, most new LCD panels have incredibly pure and bright LEDs dotted around the edge of the screen. Modern LCD panels are therefore much more evenly lit, don’t have “yellowing” light with age, and just look a lot better!

There is no such as thing as an “LED screen”. Whenever you read that, it means it’s an LCD with an LED backlight. I mention this because we’re about to delve into the types of LCD panels and it’s important that you understand LED panels can be any type of LCD, it just refers to a specific type of backlight.

Incidentally, the fact that an LCD needs a backlight is one of the main reasons these screens can’t really display true black. Even if a given pixel is switched off completely, some light still makes it through. Leaving the black color closer to a dark gray.

There are two main types of LCD panels that are really of interest these days. TN, or “twisted nematic”, panels are an affordable and popular choice for PC monitors. Then there are IPS or “in-plane switching” panels, which tend to be pricier and are favored by high-end users and creative professionals.

TN panels are the most common type of LCD you’ll find in the wild. These LCD panels are known for their quick response times. In other words, the pixels in these panels can change state very quickly. High-speed gaming monitors that need to push high refresh rates tend to be TN panels. These panels are also the most power efficient, which makes them a good choice for mobile devices that have to run off a battery. Their overall brightness also tends to be superior to other LCD types.

On the downside, TN panels tend to have relatively washed-out colors, and the viewing angles are poor compared to other standards. “Viewing angle” refers to how far you can view a screen from its center before the picture gets all funky.

TN panels are popular for VR use because of their speed. A TN panel with a 1 millisecond response time, capable of showing at least 90 frames a second, is a great choice for VR. Viewing angles are a non-issue when it comes to an HMD, because the relative angle between your eye and the screen is fixed.

Color accuracy is a downer, but that only becomes an issue when VR moves into the realm of serious creative work that requires it. TN panels have also helped keep the cost of VR headsets down.

IPS panels are generally better than TN panels from a picture-quality perspective. The color reproduction is better, although with high-end TN panels this is no longer that apparent. Viewing angles are also much better. These days IPS panels are also better at showing black than they used to be.

The downside of IPS is that it has significantly longer response times and lower refresh rates in general. While it’s not uncommon to get TN screens that can run at 90Hz, 120Hz, and even 144hz, you’ll be hard-pressed to find IPS screens over 75Hz that won’t ruin your wallet. As you can imagine, that doesn’t make IPS panels very popular for VR HMDs. That doesn’t mean they are never used. For example, the VR Union Claire uses IPS panels, since the goal of that HMD was for high-end cinematic VR experiences. Predictably, however, it’s an expensive piece of kit, and for HMDs aimed at gaming or general VR, IPS isn’t yet worth it in terms of price.

Organic LED panels are fairly new compared to LCD technology; on the surface they can look very similar to each other. Both technologies are digital flat panels that have a fixed native resolution. Both come in panel sizes that work for smartphones, tablets, and even televisions.

That similarity really is only skin-deep, since OLEDs use a completely different principle of operation. OLED technology uses an organic material that emits light when it gets an electrical current passed through it. There we already have a major departure from LCD technology. Remember that LCDs don’t generate their own light; they need a backlight for that. OLEDs don’t have that problem since they make their own light. It also means these screens can be incredibly thin, since they don’t need that additional layer of electronics dedicated to lighting.

On top of this, OLED panels can display a true black, because individual pixels can be switched off. Since they are their own source of light, that means it’s dark for real.

PMOLEDs have a simplified display control design. The rows of the display are controlled in sequence. Basically, this means these OLEDs are the cheapest to make and can be found in many small devices such as watches or other products that have three-inch or smaller screens. The downside is that the lifespan of these screens isn’t that great and they aren’t very power efficient. Not a problem on a tiny smartwatch, but phones, tablets, and TVs are out of the question. As far as I know, there are no VR headsets that use PMOLED. But if you ever see one, avoid it.

AMOLED technology is what you’ll find in things like phones and (incredibly expensive) TVs. The physical structure of an AMOLED places a matrix of OLEDs onto a TFT or “thin-film transistor” layer. Usually, each OLED has two transistors that stop and start a storage capacitor.

AMOLED displays have amazing black levels and very fast response times, and are generally perfect for VR. That is why headlining HMDs like the Vive and Oculus use this technology. Colors tend to be oversaturated and AMOLEDs cost a little more, but as a total package they are perfect for consumer VR.

What if we didn’t need to stick a screen in front of our eyes to see an image? That’s the idea behind retinal projection technology. The photons are beamed onto your retina, which acts as the projection screen.

There’s already one head-mounted display on the market that makes use of retinal projection. It’s called the Avegant Glyph, but it’s not a VR headset. Yes, it has head tracking, but the Glyph is not meant to fool your senses into thinking you’re somewhere else. Instead, you see a big monitor floating some feet ahead of you. Retinal projection is, however, a technology with a lot of potential for VR. It can ultimately do away with many of the issues that plague current HMD display technology.

One of the main draws of retinal projection is that it provides your eyes with imagery in a much more natural way. In nature, photons reach our eyes after bouncing off something else. That is, in fact, how we are able to see. Everything is a projection of reflected light. When we look at a screen however, we are staring directly at a bright light source. The claim is that this increases eye strain and is generally not good for the old peepers.

In the case of the Avegant Glyph video headset, LEDs project into millions of micromirrors, which then render the image directly on your retina. There is no screen to speak of. According to the company there are no “pixels” to see and the image looks like an object in nature. After the low-power LED projects onto the micromirror array, the photons are focused through a set of adjustable optics. This also means that you don’t have to wear glasses, as each eye’s image can be adjusted to compensate for abnormalities in each the eye of the user.

Retinal projection holds a lot of promise and is superior to other display methods when it comes color, latency, and image detail. However, as a consumer technology it is still pretty expensive, and it still needs various improvements for true mainstream viability. Products like the Glyph are very much first-generation consumer hardware, but the proof of concept is undeniable.

When you take a photo with a camera, the image sensor captures the position of the photons as they strike it after being focused through the lens. That’s why we get a single, 2D image. One angle, one picture, that’s it. Light is, however, not two-dimensional. In a given volume of space where photons are present, they are all over the place – bouncing off stuff, bouncing off other stuff, and generally getting into everything from every angle.

A light field is a description of the light flowing in every direction through every coordinate in that volume of space. It’s a way of looking at light in the same way that we look at magnetic fields – as a holistic end product with complex properties.

Light fields are very important to the future of VR. There are already cameras that capture light fields, which means true 3D recordings can be produced for viewing on a VR system. Perhaps one day we’ll have something beyond retinal projection that recreates the light field so that our eyes see the imagery as indistinguishable from real life. Light fields are already getting the mixed-reality people excited, since it would allow for truly seamless blending of the real and virtual, but it also means a revolution in completely virtual image generation.

The evolution of display technologies is a fascinating roller coaster. Just 100 years ago we figured out how to painstakingly create analog film and project it. Now it seems like every day there’s a new way to generate the imagery we love so much as a visual species.

VR is carving out its own legacy in the field of display technology and (for now) is about as intimate as the relationship between eye and screen can get. What will tomorrow bring? No one can say for sure, but it will probably be bright, crisp, and very realistic.

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VR/AR The product contains Micro OLED display modules and Fast LCD modules, with sizes ranging from 0.39 inches to 5.5 inches. It features high resolution, fast response and high refresh rates, and can be applied in a variety of micro display scenarios.

Reality Labs is a business of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds. Reality Labs is the corporate successor to Oculus, a company that was founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell to develop a VR headset for video gaming known as the Oculus Rift. Before the acquisition, Oculus raised over $2.4 million for the project via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter—nearly ten times the original goal of $250,000.

Oculus was acquired by Facebook in March 2014. The company partnered with Samsung Electronics to release the Gear VR accessory for Samsung Galaxy smartphones in 2015. In March 2016, Oculus released the first consumer version of the Rift headset. In 2017, the company released a standalone mobile headset known as Oculus Go, produced by Xiaomi. In 2019, it released a high-end standalone headset known as Oculus Quest (which, since a software update, is capable of operating as both a standalone and PC headset), and Oculus Rift S, a follow-up to the original Oculus Rift manufactured by Lenovo. In 2020, the Oculus Quest 2 was released.

Oculus ceased operating as an autonomous subsidiary of Facebook in 2018, and became a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC (marketed as Oculus from Facebook)—a subsidiary that includes other Facebook-developed hardware such as Portal. The Oculus team was later amalgamated into Facebook Reality Labs, a business of Facebook dedicated to VR and AR. In October 2021, Facebook announced that Reality Labs would begin to report its revenue separately from the Facebook "Family of Apps". Facebook subsequently announced that it would change its corporate name to Meta, and the Oculus brand was replaced on current and existing products by the "Meta" (hardware) and "Horizon" (online communities) brands.

Under Facebook ownership, Oculus products have been increasingly integrated with Facebook and its social networking platforms: since October 2020, all new users, and any user of Facebook-produced VR hardware released since then (beginning with Oculus Quest 2) must log in with a Facebook account in order to use their headsets. Support for standalone Oculus accounts was announced as ending in January 2023, but ultimately in October 2021, it was stated that "new ways to log into Quest that won’t require a Facebook account" were being developed. This requirement has faced criticism due to digital privacy concerns and Facebook"s real-name policy, and prompted Facebook to suspend sales of all Oculus products in Germany due to concerns from regulators over its compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

As a head-mounted display (HMD) designer at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, Palmer Luckey earned a reputation for having the largest personal collection of HMDs in the world and was a longtime moderator in Meant to be Seen (MTBS)"s discussion forums.

Palmer created a series of new technologies that resulted in a VR headset that was both higher performance than what was currently on the market and was also inexpensive for gamers. To develop the new product, Luckey founded Oculus VR with Scaleform co-founders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov,

Coincidentally, John Carmack of id Software had been doing his research on HMDs and happened upon Palmer"s developments. After sampling an early unit, Carmack favored Luckey"s prototype, and just before the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), id Software announced that the

During the convention, Carmack introduced a duct-taped head-mounted display, based on Palmer"s Oculus Rift prototype, which ran Carmack"s software. The unit featured a high-speed IMU and a 5.6-inch (14 cm) LCD, visible via dual lenses that were positioned over the eyes to provide a 90 degree horizontal and 110 degree vertical stereoscopic 3D perspective.Chief technology officer.

The Oculus Rift prototype was demonstrated at E3 in June 2012. On August 1, 2012, the company announced a Kickstarter campaign to further develop the product. Oculus announced that the "dev kit" version of the Oculus Rift would be given as a reward to backers who pledged $300 or more on Kickstarter, with an expected shipping date set of December 2012 (though they did not actually ship until March 2013).

There was also a limited run of 100 unassembled Rift prototype kits for pledges over $275 that would ship a month earlier. Both versions were intended to include Steam or the Oculus store.US$250,000,

Although Oculus only released a development prototype of its headset, on March 25, 2014, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook, Inc. would be acquiring Oculus for US$2 billion, pending regulatory approval. The deal included $400 million in cash and 23.1 million common shares of Facebook, valued at $1.6 billion, as well as an additional $300 million assuming Facebook reaches certain milestones.

Many Kickstarter backers and game industry figures, such as Markus Persson, criticized the sale of Oculus to Facebook.Michael Abrash joined the company as Chief Scientist.Irvine, California to Menlo Park, where Facebook"s headquarters are also located. Oculus has stated that this move is for their employees to be closer to Silicon Valley.

News reported that Oculus and Surreal Vision could create "mixed reality" technology in Oculus" products, similar to the upcoming HMD, Microsoft HoloLens.telepresence possible.

On March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released.Oculus Go in partnership with Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi.The Eye Tribe.division of a new structural entity within Facebook known as Facebook Technologies, LLC.Burlingame, California, then under construction.

In February 2019, Facebook released Oculus Quest, a high-end standalone headset.Oculus Rift S, an updated revision of the original Rift PC headset in partnership with Chinese electronics manufacturer Lenovo, which featured updated hardware and features carried over from the Go and Quest.

On August 13, 2019, Nate Mitchell, Oculus co-founder and VP of product announced his departure from the company.John Carmack wrote in a Facebook post that he would step down as CTO of Oculus to focus on developing artificial general intelligence. He stated he would remain involved with the company as a "Consulting CTO".

Upon the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook, Inc., Luckey "guaranteed" that "you won"t need to log into your Facebook account every time you wanna use the Oculus Rift."Facebook Video and social games.Oculus from Facebook.

In September 2016, support for optional Facebook integration was added to the Oculus Rift software, automatically populating the friends list with Facebook friends who have also linked their accounts (displaying them to each other under their real names, but still displaying screen names to anyone else).

In 2018, Oculus VR became a division of Facebook Technologies, LLC, to create "a single legal entity that can support multiple Facebook technology and hardware products" (such as Facebook Portal).

On August 18, 2020, Facebook announced that all "decisions around use, processing, retention, and sharing of [user] data" on its platforms will be delegated to the Facebook social network moving forward. Users became subject to the unified Facebook privacy policy, code of conduct, and community guidelines, and all users will be required to have a Facebook account to access Oculus products and services.

Users and media criticized Facebook for the move. targeted advertising.Facebook requires the use of a person"s real name.General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which prohibits making use of a service contingent on consenting to the collection of personally identifiable information, and the requirement that existing users also link to a Facebook account to use Oculus hardware and services.

On August 25, 2020, Facebook announced the formation of Facebook Reality Labs, a new unit that would encompass all of Facebook"s virtual and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including Oculus, Portal, and Facebook Spark AR. The Oculus Connect conference was also renamed Facebook Connect.

In June 2021, Facebook announced it would do a test launch of targeted advertisements in applications for Oculus Quest. The company claims that movement data, voice recordings and raw images from the headset will not be used in targeting. Instead, the ads will rely on information from the user"s Facebook profile and all user activity related to Oculus, including apps used or installed. The company has not stated whether ads will appear only in applications or in the Oculus Home experience as well.

On October 25, 2021 during Connect, Facebook announced that it would invest $10 billion over the next year into Reality Labs, and that it would begin to report its revenue separately from the Facebook "Family of Apps"—which includes Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.Meta (legally Meta Platforms, Inc.), as part of the company"s long-term focus on metaverses and related technologies.mixed reality headset codenamed "Project Cambria".Meta Quest Pro.

As a result, CTO Andrew Bosworth announced that the Oculus brand would be phased out in 2022; all Facebook hardware products will be marketed under the Meta name, and Oculus Store would be renamed Quest Store. Likewise, immersive social platforms associated with Oculus will be brought under the Horizon brand (such as Horizon Worlds). He also stated that "as we’ve heard feedback from the VR community more broadly, we’re working on new ways to log into Quest that won’t require a Facebook account, landing sometime next year. This is one of our highest priority areas of work internally".

In January 2022, the Oculus social media accounts were renamed "Meta Quest" in reference to its current VR product line. Concurrently, Meta began to retroactively refer to the Quest 2 as the "Meta Quest 2"

The initial Oculus headsets, produced under the "Oculus Rift" brand, are traditional VR headsets that require a PC to operate.Oculus Quest—a standalone headset which contains integrated mobile computing hardware and does not require a PC to operate, but can optionally be used with Oculus Rift-compatible VR software by connecting it to a PC over USB-C.

In 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the original Oculus Rift "CV1", Oculus Go (a lower-end standalone headset released in 2017),Oculus Rift S — a follow-up to the original model manufactured by Lenovo that incorporates elements of the Go and Quest.Oculus Quest 2 was unveiled as an updated iteration of the first-generation Quest,

On September 26, 2018, Facebook unveiled Oculus Quest. It is a standalone headset which is not dependent on a PC for operation; the Quest contains embedded mobile hardware running an operating system based on Android source code, including a Snapdragon 835 system-on-chip, and 64 or 128 GB of internal storage. It contains two OLED displays with a resolution of 1600x1440 per-eye and running at 72 Hz. It supports included Oculus Touch controllers via an "inside-out" motion tracking system known as "Oculus insight", which consists of a series of cameras embedded in the headset. The controllers were redesigned to properly function with Insight.

In November 2019, Facebook released a beta for a new feature known as Oculus Link, which allows Oculus Rift-compatible software to be streamed from a PC to a Quest headset over USB.USB 2.0 cables, such as the charging cable supplied with the headset. Support for controller-free hand tracking was also launched that month.

In September 2020, Facebook unveiled an updated version of the Quest, Oculus Quest 2. It is similar to the original Quest, but with the Snapdragon XR2 system-on-chip and additional RAM, an all plastic exterior, new cloth head straps, updated Oculus Touch controllers with improved ergonomics and battery life, and a 1832x1920 display running at 90 Hz,inter-pupillary distance options than the original Quest, with the ability to physically move the lenses to adjust for 3 common measurements. The Quest 2"s models were both priced US$100 cheaper than their first-generation equivalents at launch,

In October 2022, Meta unveiled Meta Quest Pro, a mixed reality headset aimed primarily at the professional market. The headset uses quantum dot displays, with thinner optics for a more visor-like form factor, and has upgraded cameras designed to facilitate mixed reality applications. Its hardware is upgraded from the Quest 2, with the Snapdragon XR2+ system-on-chip, increased RAM, and updated controllers with built-in tracking.

The Oculus Rift CV1, also known as simply the Oculus Rift, was the first consumer model of the Oculus Rift headset. It was released on March 28, 2016, in 20 countries, at a starting price of US$599.Oculus Touch.

In 2014, Samsung partnered with Oculus to develop the Gear VR, a VR headset accessory for Samsung Galaxy smartphones. It relies on the phone"s display, which is viewed through lenses inside the headset.Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S7 product lines, as well as the Galaxy Note 5.

On October 11, 2017, Oculus unveiled the Oculus Go, a mobile VR headset manufactured by Xiaomi (the device was released in the Chinese market as the Xiaomi Mi VR). Unlike the Oculus Rift, the Go is a standalone headset which is not dependent on a PC for operation. Unlike VR systems such as Cardboard, Daydream, and the Oculus co-developed Samsung Gear VR (where VR software is run on a smartphone inserted into a physical enclosure, and its screen is viewed through lenses), it contains its own dedicated display and mobile computing hardware. The headset includes a 5.5-inch 1440p fast-switching LCD display, integrated speakers with spatial audio and a headphone jack for external audio, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 system-on-chip, and 32 or 64 GB of internal storage. It runs an Android-based operating system with access to VR software via the Oculus Home user experience and app store, including games and multimedia apps. The Go includes a handheld controller reminiscent of one designed for the Gear VR, which uses relative motion tracking. The Oculus Go does not use positional tracking.

While official sales numbers have not been released, according to IDC the Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi VR had sold nearly a quarter million units combined during the third quarter 2018,retention rate was as high as the Rift"s, something that nobody at the company had predicted.

On March 20, 2019, at the Game Developers Conference, Facebook announced the Oculus Rift S, a successor to the original Oculus Rift headset.Lenovo, and launched at a price of US$399. The Rift S contains hardware features from the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest, including Oculus Insight, integrated speakers, and a new "halo" strap. The Rift S uses the same 1440p fast-switching LCD display and lenses as the Oculus Go (a higher resolution in comparison to the original model, but lower in comparison to Oculus Quest), running at 80 Hz, and is backwards compatible with all existing Oculus Rift games and software. Unlike the original Oculus Rift, it does not have hardware control for inter-pupillary distance.

Oculus Studios was initially a division of Meta that focused on funding, publishing and giving technical advice to third & second party studios to create games and experiences for Oculus Rift. Meta pledged to invest more than US$500 million on Oculus Studios to make games and content.Insomniac Games, Twisted Pixel Games, Turtle Rock Studios, and Gunfire Games.

Starting in 2020, Meta purchased both Beat GamesSanzaru GamesReady at Dawn, a game studio composed of former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment (and had also developed the Oculus Rift exclusive

In 2021, Meta began a deliberate effort of buying up studios that had made strong sales on their Quest 2 platform. In April 2021, Downpour Interactive, the developer of the virtual reality FPS multiplayer game, Onward, were purchased. The team would migrate over to Oculus Studios, although the game would continue to receive updates on all supported VR platforms. Crayta, a free-to-play platform that allows players to create and share their games via Facebook Gaming.Twisted Pixel Games. The developer had been a successful second-party studio for Meta since 2017, and had produced the VR games B-Team, Defector, and Path of the Warrior, all exclusively for Oculus platforms.

Additionally, in October 2021, Meta announced they were purchasing Within, the studio behind the successful VR fitness app, Supernatural. It was stated they would continue to operate independently as part of Reality Labs. FTC conducted a probe into the 400 million dollar deal.Supernatural, they would unfairly corner the VR fitness market. This legal action has blocked the purchase indefinitely.

Following Facebook"s acquisition of Oculus VR, ZeniMax Media, the parent company of id Software and John Carmack"s previous employer, sought legal action against Oculus, accusing the company of theft of intellectual property relating to the Oculus Rift due to Carmack"s transition from id Software to Oculus. The case, ZeniMax v. Oculus, was heard in a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and their verdict was reached in February 2017, finding that Carmack had taken code from ZeniMax and used it in developing the Oculus Rift"s software, violating his non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax, and Oculus" use of the code was considered copyright infringement. ZeniMax was awarded $500 million in the verdict, and both ZeniMax and Oculus are seeking further court actions.

In May 2022, Immersion Corporation sued Meta Platforms for patent infringement relating to the use of vibration functions in their gaming controllers.

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Metaverse-style immersion would seem to require Brelyon Ultra Reality monitor projects panoramic and cinema-scale virtual images with added depth. As you lean in to peer inside, you"ll see an image that appears to float 5 feet in the distance with a 101-degree field of view.

The monitor I tried is a prototype: It had a 4K LG LCD screen with a 24x9 aspect ratio and a 60-hertz refresh rate. Brelyon has a partnership with LG to bring 5K OLED screens to future models, as well as a refresh rate of 144 hertz aimed toward gaming.

"We engineer the wavefront of the light to give you a sense of depth. Unlike conventional autostereoscopic displays that sample the light field in angle to give shallow stereoscopic (or left-eye, right-eye) depth cue, we sample the light field in the wavefront domain to provide deep monocular or single-eye depth," wrote Heshmet in an email.

He went on to note: "These monocular depth layers require much more accurate crafting of light and are engineered to pan across multiple horopters. Because of this phenomenon, the brainfills in the gaps and gets a 3D sensation."

That means, according to Heshmet, that "although technically the content is 2D and no re-rendering is needed, different parts of the image are set to be at slightly different monocular depths, which gives that pleasant sense of immersion -- that feeling of looking through a window."

Ahead of the demo, I asked if I could bring my personal computer to try some video editing or plug in a Nintendo Switch and play Mario Kart, but unfortunately the company was unable to accommodate my tech. Instead, I tried a couple of preset demos: a video with movie clips, video game recordings and scenic views.

Brelyon"s first batch of monitors will be geared toward enterprise users and come out later this year. Those enterprise units might ship by the fourth quarter of 2022. Initially, there will be two models: the one I tried at 60 hertz and the other at 144 hertz, costing somewhere between $5,000 to $7,500.