What it’s essential to know
- The LG-made Meta Quest Professional 2 has been delayed till someday in 2027.
- LG mentioned it is “controlling the tempo” of its releases, suggesting that Meta and LG are working to maintain from releasing too many Horizon OS-powered headsets directly.
- A brand new 4K LG Micro OLED show was additionally just lately introduced, suggesting that this headset is likely to be utilizing that expertise.
Meta’s first enterprise-level headset, the Meta Quest Professional, might not have bought in addition to the corporate initially hoped, however that is not stopping it from forging forward with a second-generation mannequin. The one draw back is that would-be clients are going to have to attend till 2027 to seek out out if it is actually higher than the unique 2022 launch.
The report of the delay comes from Seoul Economic Daily (through UploadVR) and notes that LG has delayed the headset for roughly two years, because it was initially set for a 2025 launch date. That may have made it a pleasant follow-up to the upcoming Samsung XR headset, which is claimed to be launched later this 12 months and is constructed on Google’s new Android XR platform.
LG’s headset, by comparability, might be utilizing Meta’s Horizon OS, the identical software program that runs right this moment’s Meta Quest headsets, albeit possible personalized a bit to make it feel and look extra like a business-class headset. LG instructed Korea JoongAng Daily that it is delaying the discharge to “management its tempo,” referring to sluggish ultra-premium headset gross sales and certain the truth that a number of Horizon OS headsets are set to debut over the following 12 months.
Whatever the launch date, although, the upcoming LG-built Meta Quest Professional 2 might function LG’s newest show expertise. UploadVR describes it as a correct 4K micro OLED show that includes a decision of 3840×3840 per eye. By comparability, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s micro OLED show is 3660×3200 per eye, whereas the Meta Quest 3 is 2064×2208 per eye.
The brand new LG show options 10,000 nits of brightness, which sounds extremely extreme at first however is smart when you think about different elements. Pancake lenses like those used on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional or the Meta Quest 3 primarily “eat” mild because it’s handed by way of, which means the quantity of sunshine that finally reaches your eye is lowered by as a lot as 90%.
As well as, VR headsets use a expertise known as “low persistence” that is considerably much like PWM flickering, which means the pixels flip off a number of occasions per second earlier than illuminating once more. Low persistence differs from PWM on telephone shows as a result of the tech is used to cut back movement blur somewhat than management brightness.
Though the approach is much like PWM, it additional reduces the perceived brightness. On Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, this implies the headset’s 5,000 nit show is taken right down to a whopping 100 perceived nits as soon as the sunshine reaches your eyes. In different phrases, you want an “absurdly” vivid show behind these lenses to make a show vivid sufficient.
This, mixed with the decision imply the LG-made Meta Quest Professional 2 might have the most effective wanting VR headset show if nothing higher launches between at times.