A new VR headset prototype has been unveiled by Facebook Reality Labs, featuring an external screen that could let fellow VR users or observers see the eyes and face of whoever’s inside.
The fledgling technology marks a reversal of the camera passthrough of the Oculus Quest 2’s built-in lenses, which can record external surroundings and display them within the headset’s visor – instead using internal cameras to show your eyes on an external display.
This internal camera projects “a three-dimensional view of the wearer’s eyes […] in a perspective correct manner” onto a screen located on the outside of the headset, even allowing someone to make (somewhat awkard) eye contact with others in their vicinity.
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