Yet another Hacker News

47 points polymorph1sm 21 minutes ago 18 comments

Computer0 16 minutes ago | parent

It will be interesting to see how this product is differentiated from the Meta Ray Ban Display. They now have the line up:

Meta Ray Ban Audio

Meta Ray Ban Display

Meta VR Glasses

Meta Quest 3

dmix 15 minutes ago | parent

Youtube video Meta released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyD_bmMy5nQ

And another random youtube influencer who tried it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8oIs1GA0o

$1300 price

JKCalhoun 13 minutes ago | parent

I tried VR and, as many others have said, it's a novelty that wears thin quickly.

I'm amazed though at the amount of effort and corporate money that keeps being thrown at VR trying to make it a thing.

It feels like, to the public, it's like some tired The Beverly Hillbillies re-run that keeps popping up from time to time.

bottlepalm 10 minutes ago | parent

The younger generation uses VR a lot. It's like Nintendo in the 80s.

JKCalhoun 6 minutes ago | parent

Must be younger than my (20's) daughters then. Their crowd would rather touch grass.

colordrops 9 minutes ago | parent

It's a novelty because you had to put on a big uncomfortable headset that required wires up until recently went was really fidgety. Once you get the form factor fixed and comfortable everything will change. This looks like a big step in that direction. Too bad I don't want Meta looking through my eyes.

JKCalhoun 5 minutes ago | parent

You could be right. But I also keep hearing that excuse (since the Jaron Lanier, power-glove VR days) so color me skeptical.

chaostheory 12 minutes ago | parent

[delayed]

Topfi 12 minutes ago | parent

Some of the key specs cause the page is rather thin on details:

* Display Type: Micro-OLED

* Resolution: 2412 × 2288 pixels per eye

* Angular Resolution: 37 PPD

* Field of View: 70° × 66°

* Chipset: Snapdragon Reality Elite

* Memory & Storage: 12GB RAM with 128GB internal storage (expandable up to 1TB via microSD on the puck)

* Tracking & Sensors: 6DoF positional tracking, depth sensing, autofocus, 4-camera eye tracking, face tracking, and hand tracking

* Passthrough: Color RGB passthrough cameras at 26 PPD

Similar PPD to an AVP at, what I as a former owner of one (alongside a Quest 2 and 3, a Magic Leap, Xreal and Viture) would call is a far more appealing implementation for actual productive work.

Really wish Apple went down this route, have the puck incorporate an A series chip rather than shoving a M series one into the headset itself and heck, I could see such a design being doable for Apple back when they first launched the AVP. There is, unless I am mistaken, nothing here that isn't established, all the fancy display and lens experiments from Starburst, over Holocake to Mirror Lake seem to remain in the lab, this seems to be "just" pancake lenses plus Micro-OLED once more.

rvz 9 minutes ago | parent

As long as this is mixed reality and not a clunky VR-only headset like the previous Meta Quest devices, then this far exceeds what ever the Vision Pro hype was and any other XR device in the market.

This is XR for the rest of us and a worthy competitor to the Xreal.

la6479 7 minutes ago | parent

oh man playing halo and jumping off the ship and falling through the sky will feel insane with this i imagine. i just hope people have enough open space around them when enjoying the limitless expansion of VR world. DOnt want people to hurt their knees and heads and knock off their furnitures all the time.

monster_truck 6 minutes ago | parent

37 PPD is dogshit man.

I understand this is quite good, but I also have something like 20/12.5 eyesight. To me, using these things feels like looking through a coarse screen door.

E: For reference, I can comfortably count pixels on a 24.5" 1080p screen from a normal seated position