TL;DR: Reality Labs Research have been on a mission to pass the visual Turing test—attempting to create virtual experiences that are indistinguishable from the physical world. While it’s a subjective rubric, no present-day VR system has met the mark. But with our latest research prototype headsets being presented next week at SIGGRAPH 2025, it’s an achievement that may be closer than you think. placeholder-image It’s not often that you get your mind well and truly blown. But in the past five years or so, I’ve managed a bit of a hat t...