New details about the Meta Quest 3 display - MIXED Reality News

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Firmware findings suggest that Meta Quest 3 volition enactment a higher framework complaint than Meta Quest Pro.

Last summer, Quest information miner Samulia discovered the archetypal clues astir the show utilized successful Meta Quest 3 successful the beta firmware of Update 43.

The lines of codification suggest that the interior prototype, codenamed Eureka865, uses a azygous LC display with a solution of 4,128 by 2,208 pixels, which corresponds to 2,064 by 2,208 pixels per eye. In presumption of pixel count, that would beryllium a 30 percent summation implicit Meta Quest 2. The refresh complaint was specified astatine 90 hertz.

Now, Samulia reports that a 120 hertz mentation of the show configuration has surfaced successful the latest beta firmware mentation 49, suggesting that Meta Quest 3 could enactment a higher maximum refresh rate.

120 hertz enactment should go standard

Meta Quest 2 has already supported 120 hertz by default for a fewer months, but lone for VR apps that are optimized for it. The location situation and the strategy menus inactive tally astatine 90 hertz. If Meta Quest 3 does so get a faster SoC, these areas, arsenic good arsenic different VR games, could payment from a higher framework rate.

According to VR expert Brad Lynch, JDI and astir apt BOE volition manufacture the Meta Quest 3’s LCD panels. Local dimming for higher opposition similar successful Meta Quest Pro is not expected, Lynch said.

Update connected Quest 3 displays prediction:

It uses LCD display(s) with a solution of 2064×2208 per oculus moving up to 120hz astatine motorboat pic.twitter.com/ZuLHd8URIC

– Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) January 10, 2023

The $1,800 premium headset supports a maximum refresh complaint of 90 hertz. That’s a downgrade from Meta Quest 2 that isn’t apt to transportation implicit to its successor. John Carmack said during his past Connect speech that each Meta headsets pursuing Meta Quest Pro volition enactment up to 120 hertz refresh rate. Accordingly, the firmware find is nary surprise.

Meta is astir apt already investigating the next-generation chip

Another alteration Samulia discovered successful the firmware is simply a alteration successful the codename from “Eureka865” to “Eureka.” The fig 865 was a notation to the Meta Quest 2’s SoC, which is the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, which successful crook is simply a derivative of the Snapdragon 865 smartphone SOC. Lynch thinks that this alteration suggests a power to the adjacent SoC generation, the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2. A spot that is expected to beryllium considerably faster.

According to Lynch’s sources, Meta Quest 3 volition decidedly beryllium based connected the (still unannounced) next-gen SoC. The archetypal trial chips are said to person already been sent to Meta and different companies.

In his update, the well-informed expert makes further predictions astir the device: that it volition diagnostic pancake lenses and that it volition vessel with VR controllers akin to Meta Quest 2, i.e. tracking rings alternatively of inside-out tracking (see Quest Touch Pro Controller).

Meta Quest 3 is expected to motorboat successful the autumn of 2023. You tin find all facts and rumors successful our info nonfiction astir Quest 3.

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