I just got out of a Meta demo and what i saw was pretty impressive. Here ate my initial impressions:
The good:
The display is crisp and shows a LOT of detail. The field of vision is better than the HoloLens- but not by a huge margin. The Meta is tethered to the computer so it is capable of rendering things in as much detail as a full desktop computer can handle, and in the car demo they showed me that meant being able to see the wheel componenets at very close range.
The hand recognition is well done, and objects in the scene respond to the presence of your hand quite well. The first demo they showed me was a s.all field of floating cubes and pushing them around with my fingers and cupping my hands to hold them felt very natural and responsive.
The headset was also quite comfortable to wear. It wasn't very heavy and it fit well over my glasses. Getting it to focus properly was a breeze, just got ot settled straight and it worked.
The stuff they are still working on:
Tracking and framerate were the only two issues I noticed. When I moved my head there was some noticeable stutter. Honestly this could have been the software they were running, the tracking on the headset, or even the computer running it. I am confide the Meta team will work this out soon.
If someone were to ask me which is better, Meta or HoloLens I wouldn't have a good answer. HoloLens is more polished right now, but is better for room-scale AR. The Meta shines at up-close-and personal interactions.
11-02-2016 12:18 PM
