Oculus shows off VR headset with 140-degree viewing angle and moving screens

Oculus has shown a prototype of a Rift-style VR headset that has larger lenses for a 140-degree viewing angle. The screens in the headset can also move and there is eye tracking, so that close focusing is possible.

By moving the screens, it should be possible for wearers of VR glasses to focus on objects closer to the screen. The screens in the glasses are moved depending on where the viewer focuses their eyes, through eye tracking in the headset.

According to Maria Fernandez Guajardo of Oculus, who demonstrated the prototype at the Facebook F8 conference, current VR glasses do not allow for sharp objects closer than two meters in the virtual world and the moving screens solve that problem. on. The mechanical system would not make any noise or cause any vibration.

Oculus calls its prototype Half-Dome. The glasses have approximately the dimensions of an Oculus Rift and it may therefore be an early version of a successor to those VR glasses. The prototype has a much wider viewing angle, of 140 degrees. At the current Rift that is 110 degrees.

Oculus does not yet provide details about the resolution of the screens used. The company has also not made any concrete announcement of new VR glasses.