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Meta's VR prototypes, the best earbuds for phone calls, and our dream E Ink device

The Vergecast

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Seeing the Smallest Letters on an Eye Chart

There are three prototypes that seem like actual hardware, and one prototype that's kind of a hypothetical synthesis. So we built butter scotch. That's this prototype that lets you comfortably read the smallest letters on an eye chart. And then the thing that is maybe particularly interesting to me is this big set of goggles called starburst. Its idea is, we're going to put the most powerful back light we possibly can into a vr headset.

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