Facebook Reality Labs
Facebook Wants to Build AR Glasses that Gives Users Hearing Superpowers
September 4, 2020 | FRΛNK R.Oculus’ parent company Facebook has been working on developing its own pair of AR glasses for quite some time now, and a new report from the Facebook Reality Labs Research (FRL) team reveals how sound could play a significant role … Read More
Oculus Connect is Now Facebook Connect, Set for September 16th
August 25, 2020 | FRΛNK R.Oculus’ parent company Facebook is continuing its efforts to rebrand the Oculus name. The company has revealed that its annual Oculus Connect event will now be known as Facebook Connect. This year the event will be held virtually on September … Read More
Facebook ‘Neural Supersampling’ Improves VR Rendering Performance
July 3, 2020 | FRΛNK R.Oculus’ parent company Facebook has developed a technique for supersampling real-time rendered 3D content, using a machine learning-based approach that could enable much higher-resolution graphics in games and applications on future VR headsets.
In a Siggraph 2020 technical paper entitled … Read More
Facebook Researchers Reveal the ‘Thinnest VR Display’ Optics to Date
June 30, 2020 | FRΛNK R.Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), the company’s AR/VR R&D division, has published new research on a holographic optics architecture that could enable the development of thinner, and lighter virtual reality headsets not much bigger than a pair of sunglasses.
Facebook discussed … Read More
Facebook Reality Labs is Working on Real-Time, Lifelike Avatars
March 13, 2019 | FRΛNK R.Oculus-parent company Facebook is aiming to redefine the future of communication with new groundbreaking 3D capture technology and AI systems that can create lifelike avatars of people.
In an Oculus blog post today, Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) chief scientist Michael … Read More
Oculus Research Is Now Renamed to ‘Facebook Reality Labs’
May 7, 2018 | FRΛNK R.Today, Oculus announced that it is rebranding Oculus Research, the R&D division of the company, to Facebook Reality Labs (FRL). The announcement was made by Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash in a post on his personal Facebook page.
In his post … Read More