Virtual-Reality

Extended reality, or XR, is an umbrella category comprised of immersive technologies, including virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

How do you take a mixed reality (MR) headset from idea to finished product? Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Labs, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast for a discussion on the realities (no pun intended) of building MR hardware. Jones shares his strategy for [...] Read More... The post How to build a mixed reality headset appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Content streaming and engagement are entering a new dimension with QUEEN, an AI model by NVIDIA Research and the University of Maryland that makes it possible to stream free-viewpoint video, which lets viewers experience a 3D scene from any angle. QUEEN could be used to build immersive streaming applications that teach skills like cooking, put Read Article

At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In [...] Read More... The post React at Meta Connect 2024 appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

What happens when a team of mechanical engineers get tired of looking at flat images of 3D models over Zoom? Meet the team behind Caddy, a new CAD app for mixed reality. They join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about teaching themselves to code, disrupting the CAD software space, how [...] Read More... The post Meet Caddy – Meta’s next-gen mixed reality CAD software appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

MobileConfig enables developers to centrally manage a mobile app’s configuration parameters in our data centers. Once a parameter value is changed on our central server, billions of app devices automatically fetch and apply the new value without app updates. These remotely managed configuration parameters serve various purposes such as A/B testing, feature rollout, and app [...] Read More... The post Unlocking the power of mixed reality devices with MobileConfig appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products.  In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest [...] Read More... The post Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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