Meta’s initial model headphones show the future of mixed reality

VR headphones are already Meta within The best You can get its price points, but at the next week’s conference, the company offers some impressive research models that could be a peek on what its headphones may be in the future.

One headphone, “Tiramisu”, brings “a new landmark of realism in virtual reality,” says Meta In a blog post. Tiramisu has “high contrast – about 3x from Meta Quest 3 – along with an angle of 90 pixels per degree (PPD) – 3.6x Quest 3 – brightness up to 1400 nits – 14x from Quest 3.” It is clear that there are some differentials, including that they are “larger and heavier” than consumer headphones available today and have a limited vision field (FOV), but it is “the closest we have reached a visual experience that passes the visual twist test to date.”

Two other headphones, “Boba 3” and “Boba 3 VR”, instead have a very wide FOV. While the Quest 3 has a horizontal FOV of 110 degrees and a vertical FOV of 96 degrees, Boba 3 headphones have horizontal FOV of 180 degrees and vertical FOV of 120 degrees. This horizontal FOV brings headphones much closer to the FOV for the human optical system, which Meta says is “about 200 degrees.

Boba 3 headphones, which benefit from “offers in huge production and the techniques of similar lenses for those in Quest 3, have a display accuracy for each eye 4K in 4K. This is higher than the 3K width resolution by 3K for each eye of the initial form Boba 2 for the past year and 2K display by 1K for each eye of the pre -Boba 1 model.

Typical headphones will be shown at the Siggraph 2025 conference next week, and I recommend checking the Meta Blog post to watch videos at work. While Meta says it is “purely preliminary models, with new techniques that may not make their way to the consumer product”, you can see how it can eventually lead to headphones that can offer more vir experiences.