Meta puts the VR Glasses at 2412 x 2288 per eye, and 58 degrees perceived

Meta has put a per-eye display resolution on the VR Glasses at last, 2412 x 2288 pixels, and alongside it a much smaller number: a p90 perceived target of 58 degrees horizontal by 54 degrees vertical. Both are on Meta's developer page for the headset's field of view, updated September 25, 2026, which also calls the 70 by 66 degree figure Meta gave at Connect an upper bound rather than a promise.

Meta's own image of the VR Glasses in use: a man in a brown cardigan wearing a wraparound black visor, with a thin cable running behind his ear. Meta says fit and eye-to-lens distance change how much of the 70 degrees a person actually sees. Image: Meta

A third number is new too. Meta lists a per-eye render extent of 74 degrees horizontal by 68 degrees vertical, described as "the angular extent used for rendering, not a guarantee that a person sees the full area".

Meta calls 70 degrees an upper bound, not a promise

The 70 by 66 and the 58 by 54 measure different things, and Meta's own wording says so. "Meta VR Glasses' nominal straight-ahead field of view is 70 degrees horizontal by 66 degrees vertical," Meta writes, and it asks developers to "treat this value as an upper bound rather than the full area available for placing UI", because "device fit, eye position, and gaze direction can reduce the area a person sees".

Two things shrink it, according to Meta. A greater distance between eye and lens "reduces the visible area, especially vertically", and looking towards an edge "moves the pupil away from the lens center", at which point "the lens can then limit the view before the display does".

The 58 by 54 is what Meta asks developers to design against. It is reachable with a flag in Meta's own command-line tool, to be used "when your test plan calls for the p90 perceived target of 58 degrees horizontal by 54 degrees vertical". Meta does not define what its p90 covers, so the size of the population behind that figure is not established.

What changed since Meta first gave a number

When Mixed News reported that the VR Glasses see 70 degrees where a Quest 3 sees 110 on September 25, Meta had published no per-eye resolution and no diagonal. The resolution is now on the record. The diagonal still is not, and neither is a refresh rate.

The 2412 x 2288 figure is a panel spec and Meta fences it in as such, calling it "the physical display pixel grid, not an app window size or a required render-target size". It is not a render resolution, and Meta tells developers not to calculate pixel offsets from it.

Design guidance follows the smaller number

Meta tells developers to keep primary actions and status information near the centre of the view, to avoid dense groups of small targets near the boundary, and to give a second route to any action that only appears near an edge. The guidance is written for a view narrower than the 70 degree figure.

None of this is a measurement of a shipped product. The VR Glasses were announced at $1,299.99 in the US, with a spring 2027 release, which leaves the better part of a year in which a developer page can be revised again before anyone outside Meta can hold a pair.