- Goal has two new VR headphones that you can try
- They are protys that are generally not accessible to the public
- You will have to attend Siggraph 2025 to give them a turn
From time to time, goal will exhibit some of its prototype virtual reality headphones, models that are not for public liberation such as their completely incipient Quest 3 goal, but will allow their researchers to test the attributes when they are pushed too much beyond the current limits of commercial headphones. Like Starburst headphones, which offered a maximum brightness of 20,000 nits.
Tiramisu and Boba 3, two more of their prototypes, are more concerned with offering “retinal resolution” and an extremely wide field of vision instead of only with an incredible brightness, but like Starburster, goal is giving people the opportunity to demonstrate these generally laboring dressers.
That is, if you attend Siggraph 2025 in Vancouver.
I have been in Siggraph before, and it is full of futuristic XR technology and demonstrations that companies such as goal and their reality laboratories have been cooking.
Although generally prototypes resemble Tiramasu. That is, a little practical.
Tiramisu at least seems to be a headset that you can use normally, even if it looks like a Quest 2 goal that has stretched comically: Starburst, for example, had to be suspended from a metal frame, since it was too heavy to use.
But Tiramasu does not seem the most practical model. The compensation is that goal can equip the headphones with µold screens and other technologies such as custom lenses to offer a high contrast and resolution: 3x and 3.6x respectively of what the Quest 3 goal offers.
As a result, Tiramasu is the closest goal it has to achieve the “Visual Turing”, virtual images that are indistinguishable from the real ones.
Boba 3, on the other hand, looks like a headset that you could buy tomorrow, and the way Meta talks about it, it seems that something inspired by him could arrive at some point in the future.
This is because it looks surprisingly compact: it apparently weighs only 660 g, a little less than a mission 3 with an elite strap at 698 g. It also has a 4K resolution by 4K and, the reason why this headset is special, has a 180 ° horizontal field of vision and a 120 ° vertical vision of vision.
That is significantly more than 110 ° and 96 °, respectively, offered by the Quest 3 goal, and although the 3 cover approximately 46% of the field of vision of a person, Boba 3 captures around 90%.
The only problem is that Boba 3 requires a “GPU system and first -line PC”, according to the Optical Systems Research Scientist and the Yang Zhao optical scientist. This is because the additional space that creates the largest field of vision, which leads to higher computing requirements.
Although Zhao noticed that Boba 3 is “something we wanted to send to the world as soon as possible”, and it resembles the glasses in some way: it is said that the next design finish headset is taking.
So we will have to keep our eyes open to see what launches Meta launches below, but although only a few lucky people can try Boba 3 in Siggraph, I hope that many more of us experience the next -generation VR headphones that inspires.
