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Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving the Meta Board

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Photo: Lino Mirgeler/picture alliance (Getty Images) Sheryl Sandberg, original girlboss and longtime fixture at Facebook, is formally stepping down from her position on Meta’s board. Sandberg announced her transition away from the company on Wednesday in a post that she made, appropriately, on Facebook. Russian Court Says Meta Is “Extremist Organization” “With a heart filled … Read more

LG confirms it’s releasing an XR headset. But is it the Meta Quest 3 Pro or its own?

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Meta As we approach the official release of the Apple Vision Pro XR headset, there appears to be another entrant trying to shake up the market – LG.  According to comments made at CES, the company is working on its own headset, and it may just rival Apple’s.  Also: The best VR headsets right now … Read more

I bought custom lenses for my Meta Quest 3, but not every eyeglass wearer needs them. Do you?

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David Gewirtz/ZDNET Do wearers of eyeglasses in the real world need to wear those corrective lenses when exploring the virtual world with their Meta Quest 3 headset? And if so, what are their options? Here’s what’s baffled me about how manufacturers have presented their recent crop of AR/VR/XR (and, yes Apple, spacial computing) headsets. Most … Read more

A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again

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“Malicious actors like this are persistent, and as we’ve said before, we’ve previously detected efforts to use other Pages and accounts in an attempt to amplify content related to him,” Ben Walters, a Meta spokesperson, tells WIRED. “We have and will continue to take action when we find inauthentic behavior, or content, or ads that … Read more

The best Meta Quest 2 deal from Black Friday is back with a $50 credit

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In case you haven’t heard, the Meta Quest 2’s $249 holiday pricing is sticking around for good. That’s a natural progression for the second-gen VR headset, which launched in 2020 and was recently outclassed by the newer Meta Quest 3. What’s more, if you pick up a 128GB Quest 2 at Walmart right now, you’ll … Read more

Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google’s Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says

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One week ago today, Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users, amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet’s most popular browser. By the end of the year, Google will block these cookies entirely and replace them with a new tracking system that’s a bit more private called … Read more

Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over ‘pay for privacy’ consent choice

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Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws is facing a second challenge from privacy rights advocacy group noyb. It’s supporting a new complaint, which is being filed with the Austrian data protection authority, that alleges the company … Read more

Who’s afraid of VR? I am. It made me queasy – until I tried Meta Quest 3

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David Gewirtz/ZDNET If you’ve been paying any attention at all to ZDNET for the past half year or so, you know that one of the trends we find most intriguing is XR, the acronym used because AR/VR/MR (for augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality) is just too cumbersome. Like generative AI, XR in 2023 … Read more

The $50 Meta Quest 3 accessory that I can’t live without (and how to get it for free)

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Full Name/ZDNETZDNET’s key takeawaysThe Zenni VR Prescription Lenses are an affordable, simple, and effective way to improve your Quest 3 experience.They can be prescribed with a Sphere (SPH) range of -9.00 to +6.00 and a Cylinder (CYL) range of -4.00 to +4.00.You’ll have to wait about a week for delivery, but that’s relatively fast for … Read more