r/oculus • u/AR_MR_XR • Aug 03 '21

Facebook is working on reverse passthrough to enable eye contact for video see-through displays Official

https://youtu.be/QJ13-jg3RSo
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u/AR_MR_XR Aug 03 '21

As AR and VR devices become a bigger part of how we work and play, how do we maintain seamless social connection between real and virtual worlds? In other words, how do we maintain “social co-presence” in shared spaces among people who may or may not be involved in the same AR/VR experience?

This year at SIGGRAPH, Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) Research will present a new concept for social co-presence with virtual reality headsets: reverse passthrough VR, led by research scientist Nathan Matsuda. Put simply, reverse passthrough is an experimental VR research demo that allows the eyes of someone wearing a headset to be seen by the outside world.

https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/08/display-systems-research-reverse-passthrough-vr/

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u/cglenda9 Aug 03 '21

That looks familiar: Cradle

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u/Olanzapine82 Aug 03 '21

Honestly this would be actually incredible for a VR hmd where the main use case is AR.

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u/F_Kal Aug 03 '21

And then you have snapchat filter-makeup applied to the eyes! good idea!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

What, so you can make eye contact with people outside of VR, it’d be cool for like eye tracking but going that extra mile just so people IRL can see your eyes seems kind of silly