Facebook is looking into retina resolution for the next Oculus VR headset

Facebook has hinted that the next Oculus VR headset could feature a 'retina' resolution.

We're still waiting in the wings for the Oculus Quest 3, but it seems that Facebook has been focusing on another VR headset.

The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photograph on the social media site of him wearing a paradigm headset, and while it doesn't seem to exist the Oculus Quest 2 successor, information technology still potentially shows off some juicy details about the next VR headset.

Looking at the photograph above, the headset is from the Facebook Reality Labs research team and it'south a prototype that includes 'retina' resolution.

Retina resolution is when a device's resolution becomes almost identical to our own xx/twenty vision in the existent world, so the headset display becomes indistinguishable from what you would see with the human being eye.

So far, retina resolution hasn't been included in headsets that can exist bought by regular consumers. It's also not expected that the Oculus Quest 3 will characteristic retina resolution due to its affordable toll bespeak. Information technology could potentially be a new Oculus Rift, or an even more than high-end headset. Simply it's hard to know at this indicate.

If Facebook does release a headset with retina resolution, information technology will be the first of its kind to become bachelor on the mass market place, and it would be a significant upgrade on the Oculus Quest 2, which has an 1832 x 1920 resolution display per middle.

Moving towards retina resolution would also likely profoundly improve gameplay; it would become more immersive, with the private pixels becoming less apparent in the center of a game or VR experience. A higher resolution can fifty-fifty assistance with reducing motion sickness, making virtual reality more than accessible to the masses.

While we don't know much more virtually the side by side Oculus VR headset, nosotros'll be sure to keep y'all in the loop if Facebook makes any more comments or hints.