Micro-OLED Cambria is BACK! 

Looks like micro-oled is back on the menu boys!

I expect Meta Connect is when they will announce Cambria and it will ship soon after. I really hope micro oled makes the cut and hopefully Cambria has a chip more powerful than the XR2.

As someone who has been following your content for awhile (on RU-vid as well as Twitter), I think what you said at the end really sums up how I feel: I really hope that we get uOLED later this year in Cambria and I'd be willing to pay much more for it. It makes sense to have multiple tiers of products, and having a significantly better screen (uOLED @ 3k compared to miniLED @ 2k) could be a decent differentiator. Like others, I'd love to have a Valve headset instead, but (and this is just intuition more than anything) I just don't see them resolving their supply issues to ramp up production and launch the same time as Meta and Apple. Random guess here, but I'd say Valve's headset is further off in 2023 (at the earliest). I'd LOVE to be wrong though. Really looking forward to the Meta vs. Apple vs. Valve competition, it could only be good for us.

WHEN ARE THEY DEMOING IT THOUGH? 😭 I just can't wait for Apple vs Meta vs Valve VR/XR wars to start.

Super exciting. Cambria was on my to-buy list ever since i first heard about it in one of your leak videos, before the connect event, i have q2 now and it's pretty decent, but the small FOV and not amazing colors and blacks just leave a lot to be desired. With the micro oleds and hopefully much bigger fov in cambria (+ eye tracking which means foveated rendering so i hopefuly wont have to upgrade from the 3060ti to run it) it will be a truly amazing headset. Don't care that much for the AR side of it, but it could be pretty fun to say project your VRchat friends into your irl room with it. I just really hope the price tag will be under $1k, i can't really drop like 5 grand on it. God I want it so baaaaad.

I'm still hoping they will have built it with tethered and airlinked options supported from the get-go rather than retrofitted later on or not at all. I like to keep my options open rather than being told to just shut up and enjoy the walled garden.

As mentioned by another commenter, my main feature would be a cable that allows direct connection to Display Port, as soon as they mention "compression" that'll be it, not interested, what's the point of having fancy high res screens and optics if the compression will kill the benefits. The Quest-2 is a amazing device for it's "price" point, but the cambria will not be cheap, so expectations get set a lot higher.

I hope the controllers for Cambria will work for quest 2 like a upgrade.

oh yeah it's all coming together

Let’s hope your right!

I think last year when zuck announced the device there is a good possibility that he "left it in the box" as a way to assure partners like Qualcomm for instance, which could have an unannounced chip in the headset. He gave just enough info to string us along and I am unfortunately hooked 😁

Sleeping in that micro oled headset though 😋

I'd like to hear your take on when/where FOV improvements are going. The impression I'm getting is that miniaturizing is a much higher priority for HMD makers and increasing FOV right now would get in the way of that. Not to mention it would be a trade-off for PPD which I think getting to retina level is a higher priority for them as well. Once they have a near glasses form factor with retina displays I figure they would then focus their efforts on expanding FOV while maintaining those things. And hopefully by that time there's processing power on the market or 5G(+ a streaming solution) everywhere to drive the crazy high resolutions a jump in FOV would bring. That's my uninformed guess.

who else bought a Goovis for watching movies and working on the desktop because VR headset resolution and comfort is not there yet?

I’m looking forward to a new Meta Device as it will push the industry further forward. It’s obvious the quest 2 was rushed to market. Can’t wait to see what a truly polished Quest device would look like.

one reason not to announce more about cambria at connect was ....the name change maybe

All I’m hearing is that we can finally watch 2k videos in big screen

This channel is practically named “BradLED”, “Brad’s Mixed Displays”, “Bradley Loves Displays”. In all fairness, display tech might be the biggest setback and your videos are epic! Do you think Qualcomm will work with a partner to release AR devices?

12k reveal in 3 days, you think their QLED can hold a candle to OLED? They seem pretty confident.

Hi Brad!

DSC doesn't stand for Displayport compression.

I think all the headsets under Cambria will be called Quest 3... And maybe there is a quest 3 (sea cliff) and Quest 3 pro (sea bright)...

This is insane

I would have bought a QUest+/Seacliff if that was all that was on offer because it still looked like it would have enough new features that interested me but I was disappointed when it looked like the Quest Pro Seabright version with the 3000x3000 pixel per eye Micro-Oled displays was off the table. Very excited if it turns out that wasn't the case after all. Would love to hear confirmation that it had a more powerful SOC, Display POrt connection and at the very least WIFI6e 6ghz but preferably WIGIG2 60ghz. Gonna be another expensive Hardware year for me in 2022. €2000+ for the Kickstarter Yaw2 Motion Sim rig I should receive this year, €1000+ for a Cambria/Seabright/Quest Pro...and God knows how much for an RTX4090. LOL.

I wouldn't be surpised if they found a way to get 120°+ FOV somehow.

I may have made my last purchase based off of it having Micro-OLED if it had existed...even if it was more expensive...

Great video, Ive been excited about cambria and following it pretty closely since it was announced. My biggest question currently is has anyone seen any specs on what the FOV is probably going to be, at least on the almost finished version? I havent seen anything on that and thats a big factor for me

Fundraise something to put on the wall you're facing, I'd like to have your audio free of reverb :). Maybe a curtain does the job.

Interesting!

If meta is making prototypes with u-oled i wonder how valve is doing with their research and prototypes Also i miss quail comm

Great video as always, here's food for the algorithm, nomnom. :p

HARDWARE COMPANIES! We Want Micro-OLED and will not buy crap not made with it! I took my Quest 2 back. I am waiting for WIFI 7 and Micro-Oled to get into VR. Make it happen this year!

Hi Brad!!!! Can you please make some videos on hologram tech of samsung and microsoft. I do not see a lot of content regarding those especially on how they work.

Nice

Sea Cliff = Meta Cambria Sea Bright = Meta Quest 3 ??

Quest Pro Plus confirmed?

This is so cool!

Clearly it is not happening next gen, but varifocal wen?

Don't forget to prepend to description links

Have you ever tried out the Arpara 5k?

the the metacambria the powerhouse of the cell?

November show, December release? I think so.

liked and subbed for the good content.

so the miniled seacliff is probably coming soon, but the seabright is going to release later this year, or even later?

Brad I hear Arpara is delaying shipment till April now due to a growing Covid-19 outbreak in China. Will Micro-OLED production be hitting some walls this year according to your friends?

So were no longer looking at a end of Q2 for release???

People really want virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality to be, overnight, a product that costs $200 or $100... when we all know that's not how innovative new products work, many times they take up to decades to drop in price or become really accessible and reach the big market.

so roughly ~2785 x 3000 resolution @ 90 Hz for Seabright. What about Seacliff? You mentioned "around 2K per eye", but there wasn't anything specific in the data leak you put up----have more precise specifics?

Do you have any videos on whether the new headset from meta will have eyetracking and any form of dynamic focus?

Im gonna wait for Apple. Ive been kicked out of META so many times once I load my account on Cambria its gonna be nothing more then a brick a week after I buy it

Will it also still have a very small max IPD and a face plate that only fits people with narrow of small heads? I expect so, and I'm never buy a Meta VR headset, for these reasons and I don't want to support Meta.

Great update Brad, this sounds a lot better than the 2160 x 2160 per eye resolution ULED Cambria you leaked previously. Have you managed to get your hands on a Varjo Aero yet? I'm wanting the absolute best headset for visual clarity as I mostly fly in MSFS, but am holding out until all the major manufacturers have announced their offerings. Any thoughts on whether a microOLED 3k Cambria would beat the Aero for visuals?

Meta cambria idk why but I have a feeling telling me u did this intentionally to trigger M word ppl x)

Wen will OG content creators just stop being cringy about the name change. Oculus sold out to the man. It's not Zuck's Fault that every man does have a price. I'm so tired of it. It's been half a year. "Oculus, uh um, well its META now (insert snarky face)" Bruh, I'm new to VR and its so dang cringe. Just call it Meta Meta METAAAAAAAAAA and move on. Thanks. 🙏🏽❤️ (or just keep calling it Oculus...just move on)

What's different between micro oled display and the oled on quest 1 ?

Your friendly reminder that Brad is the GOAT of VR news

Brad, your depth of knowledge, insight and continuous research never ceases to amaze me. Thank you. Exciting times ahead.

Nobody: MicroOled display Bred: neuron activation

Thanks Bradley, awesome content as always :) As amazing as Cambria may turn out to be, either of these two sticking points will be an immediate veto from me.. 1. Lack of a no-compromises, no-compression PCVR solution (i.e. Displayport or something without bandwidth limitations like link/airlink) 2. The continued requirement of a Facebook account. If I'm spending 600+ on a piece of hardware, it better damn well come without Meta's ability to brick my headset whenever they please, with zero recourse. All that said, I am still holding out for our lord and savior GABEN to drop some VR redemption on this world.

first ....of many

Zuck said cambria was a code name. So I was thinking how nice it would be if the device name were "Oculus" and phase out quest as a device name... The Oculus by Meta instead of Quest by Facebook.

If the new headsets are heavier, have noisy fans, and a darker output... I don't think that's good for the advancement of VR. The other things are good though.

Microscreens, macroexpectations!!!

Just hearing from someone like sadlyitzbradley that we may see a micro OLED device (VR headset) in the market soon is obviously for a lot of people including myself very good news and is something to be hyped about! Hopefully Meta Cambria will release in May or June this year.

Another great video! I’m excited to see what’s coming! Like you I’d pay more! I’m also interested to see what Apple comes up with (just not the price!).

love this episode of vrarmrxr

So in the upcoming VR space, “mini LED” is similar to QLED TV displays with a grid of backlights to improve contrast and black levels... and OLED is about the same. I wonder if VR tech will make use of the new R & G subpixel + blue backlight display - Linus Tech Tips did a video recently about Samsung’s new “QD OLED” display coming out with deep blacks, truer colors and higher brightness: “Samsung just made everything else OBSOLETE”💡

Where is that sexy avatar BRADLEY?

They should've skipped Mini-LED in favor of Micro-OLED. Go big or go home.

it's going to get interesting

da boofie sandwich

Is Micro-OLED Cambria worth selling your soul?

They could make the best headset that will ever exist for $5 and I still won't buy it. Facebook will never get a thing from me.

Good stuff as usual! I would like to add that you should probably avoid pissing off your hair stylist again 😂

In Oculus Connect 5 presentation, Michael Abrash said that pancake lenses could either allow small form factor and 90°-100 FOV, or large form factor and up to 200° FOV. Do you think SeaCliff and SeaBright are those two form factors and FOVs?

I love getting the most exciting vr news from a plank of wood

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Hey Bradley, you're always in the thick of this news, have you seen or heard of any patents yet for haptic feedback devices that give us the sensation of tongues licking us? Thanks for keeping up with your passions and mine!

Nice work

Wooof

I think it’s a bit funny. For VR oled is the bees knees but when Nintendo made the switch oled it’s seen as lazy (or at least I haven’t seen very positive response for it).

I have had this question my entire life I hope you answer it 😅. Do VR companies share specs with each other before releasing their headsets? Because if one the company was able to come up with high technology with fair price while competitors provided like medium specs with high price, all other competitors will lose money because customers will can buy better specs with good money? Like if valve could came up with new chip that is 10 times faster than coming Cambria's chips and bring new technology that is not on cambria and there were huge difference and price is not very different meta would not sell their headset.