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If you are into your virtual reality you will likely know Meta\u2019s Chief Technology Officer Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth from his many posts conferences and videos. Now Boz\u2019s latest podcast \u2013 Boz to the Future (spoiler, he likes being called Boz), sees the Quest<\/a> head honcho go into great detail while looking into the future, at what kind of standard VR we will be getting by the year (randomly) 2031 and to be fair he is extremely pragmatic about it.<\/p>\n If you are expecting him to say it will all be implemented in your retina by Elon and his merry gang, or you will be living most of your day in Ready Player One\u2019s Oasis, then you are going to be sorely disappointed as Bosworth firmly puts the boot in on that idea and the scale of ambition in the next seven years won\u2019t take us dramatically beyond where we currently sit today.<\/p>\n In terms of what Meta will be focusing on, Boz doesn\u2019t believe headsets will need to go beyond the 120Hz refresh rate we already have today. That might sound ridiculous when we have monitors that already do twice that. While it might be functionally possible Bosworth says, \u201cI\u2019m not saying 240 isn\u2019t better than 120, just like I think 60 PPD is better than 40 PPD, but within these limited compute budgets you\u2019re not seeing generational huge improvements on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He also believes that the weight of a headset will come fairly dramatically and is one of the things Meta will be pushing for as a lighter headset is obviously much more comfortable to wear for longer periods of time.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think comfort is a tremendously important part of it. You\u2019d like to see the weight pushed down. In particular, it\u2019s not just the raw number of grams. It\u2019s not the most important thing. How you balance it on the head, how close can the optical stack be to the eyes, that lever that is on the edge of your nose out to the edge of the device that controls the comfort on your nose, on your cheeks, the amount of pressure on your forehead, depending on what kind of strap you\u2019re using, that\u2019s determined there. So you can move that stack in a little bit, which is one of the big shifts from Quest 2 to Quest 3, that distance is quite a bit in so it feels more comfortable. So I\u2019d like to see the weight reduced by, you know, 100-200 grams by that point.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n In terms of Field of View Bosworth predicts we will get a taller field of view rather than huge gains in the width of it that we might expect, \u201cI actually think taller field of view matters more than wider field of view, for immersion. Certainly wider field of view is more important for us as a species in terms of information density, because our eyes do see more horizontal, but vertical is a good way of convincing you that you\u2019re immersed in a space, in a way that\u2019s kind of deceptive.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n UploadVR<\/a> goes into a lot of depth reviewing the episode or If you want to listen to Boz from the Future in full, seek it out where you usually get your podcasts such as Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n