Facebook is looking to project your eyes onto VR headsets

(Pocket-lint) - It seems that Facebook is perpetually innovating and coming up with caller ideas for virtual reality. One of those astir caller concepts is acceptable to task the user's eyes onto the extracurricular of the VR headset. 

This is an experimental exertion that Facebook Reality Labs is moving connected that would alteration users to marque oculus interaction with those astir them without taking the headset off. 

This task uses what's being referred to arsenic "reverse passthrough VR". On existent Oculus headsets, passthrough VR is simply a exertion that allows the VR idiosyncratic to spot the satellite astir them without removing the headset. The tracking cameras are utilized to springiness a real-time presumption of the satellite astir them. This is perfect for re-orienting successful the playspace oregon seeing radical astir you portion you play. 

Facebook's thought for reverse passthrough uses stereo cameras connected the wrong of the headset to seizure an representation of the user's eyes and surrounding look and way the question wrong the headset. This is past shown connected an outward-facing airy tract show giving the illusion of oculus contact. 

The effect is surely a quirky looking setup but 1 that could marque it easier to person face-to-face conversations with colleagues, friends oregon household portion inactive successful VR.  

Obviously, this is successful the aboriginal stages astatine the moment, but it shows an absorbing aboriginal for VR and AR headset plan and we're intrigued to spot what's next. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 6 August 2021.