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Meta Quest 3 takes a step closer to mainstream AR/VR
However this all plays out, 2023 will almost certainly be regarded as a pivotal year for AR and VR. After years of waiting for the category to have its iPhone moment, Apple finally unveiled the Vision Pro during WWDC back in June. It was everything we’ve come to expect from the company: big, boisterous and…
Meta announced a host of new AI-powered bots, features and products to be released across its messaging apps, the Meta Quest 3 and the future Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The…
Meta filmed Mr Beast, Paris Hilton and 26 more to build celebrity AIs based on Llama 2
Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment, and how they’ll be compensated for…
Meta’s ‘augments’ place digital objects around your physical space
Meta’s new Quest 3 mixed-reality headset will allow users to personalize their physical spaces with “augments.”
Headspace is bringing an immersive VR experience to Meta Quest 3 ‘soon’
Headspace is coming to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset “soon” in partnership with Meta and Nexus Studios, Meta’s Head of Developer Relations Melissa Brown announced at Meta Connect today. The…
Meta Connect 2023: Everything you need to know about Quest 3 VR, Ray-Ban smart glasses and Meta AI
Meta’s annual Connect conference started today, and this means lots of new hardware and perhaps a Metaverse sighting.
Meta parties like it’s 2015, brings new chatbots to its messaging apps
Meta, angling for a seat at the AI chatbot table, is launching a host of new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. They’re available for…
Mark Zuckerberg went 33 minutes without saying ‘metaverse’ at his keynote
When Meta rebranded from Facebook two years ago, the word “metaverse” went mainstream. Even people outside the tech world wondered if we would soon start to socialize via virtual reality…
Meta’s 512GB Quest 3 now comes with 6 months of the Quest+ subscription
Meta’s VR subscription service, Quest+, is now being bundled with the company’s Quest 3 mixed-reality headset. The subscription, which provides VR device owners the ability to two handpicked games from…
Meta Quest 3 convinced me to love VR by downplaying the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Meta Quest 3 VR headset onstage at Meta’s Connect event in California today, but I was lucky enough to get a chance to try it out…
Ray-Ban’s new Meta smart glasses will be able to translate text
Meta just took the wraps off its latest smart glasses at today’s Connect event in Menlo Park. We were able to spend a bit of time with the new wearables…
Meta is launching a tool called AI Studio, which will let businesses build custom chatbots to run on its various messaging apps.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses livestream to Instagram and Facebook
The original Ray-Ban Stories didn’t catch on quite like Meta had hoped. According to a recent report, the company managed to sell a bit over one-third of what the internal…
Generative AI stickers are coming to Meta’s apps along with AI editing
At its Meta Connect event today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that generative AI stickers would be coming to Meta’s messaging apps.
Qualcomm launches its next-gen chips for XR and AR platforms
Qualcomm today announced its newest chips for XR and AR platforms: the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 for VR and mixed-reality devices and the AR1 Gen 1, specifically designed for smart…
Roblox is launching on Meta Quest VR headsets today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company’s Connect event. The announcement comes as Roblox, a major player in the metaverse…
Meta’s Quest headsets have long been reliably consumer focused — at least until last year’s Quest Pro launch. Meta, like Magic Leap and Microsoft before it, has seen the writing…
The next-generation of Meta Quest hardware is here, and Meta announced a bunch of software news alongside the Quest 3 VR headset hardware reveal at its Connect conference. One such…
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Meta’s $500 Quest 3 targets consumer mixed reality
Meta’s Quest Pro arrived to a mixed reaction when it launched late last year. The consensus — if one can be found — was that the headset presented some impressive technological leaps over its consumer predecessor (the Quest 2), but the $1,500 price tag was ultimately prohibitively expensive. If that sounds at all familiar, it’s…
Meta Connect 2023: How to watch the Quest 3 reveal now at 10:30AM PT
Update: Meta’s moved the start time by 30 minutes to 10:30AM PT/1:30 PM ET. No explanation why, but the sun’s blazing on the presentation area, and crowds are milling about.…
