Meta engineers discuss the realities of building MR headsets
How do you take a mixed reality headset from concept to shipped hardware? Meta Reality Labs VP of hardware engineering Alfred Jones sits down with Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast to break down the engineering decisions behind MR devices.
Jones outlines his approach to choice paralysis, walking through how teams settle on display tech, battery capacity, thermal budgets, and price points when the possible options are nearly endless. He also digs into why passthrough remains a stubborn engineering problem, how Meta dogfoods its own MR hardware internally, and where mixed reality might go from here.
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