Meta’s planning a cheaper Quest 3 follow-up that ships without controllers

Meta is looking down the road at a follow-up to the Quest 3, which is releasing this week, and plans to take cues from Apple’s Vision Pro while it races to mainstream its VR tech. That’s according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, who writes that the company’s Quest headset marketing … Read more

Meta’s text chat for Horizon Worlds is rolling out to all users

Meta’s text-based chat feature for Horizon Worlds will be available for all users beginning this week, Meta said in a blog post on Tuesday. The text chat, which Meta dubs “world chat,” offers a way to communicate with other people inside a Horizon Worlds experience without using your voice. Meta first launched world chat in … Read more

Meta’s news partnership head Campbell Brown is leaving the company

Campbell Brown. Getty Images Meta said Campbell Brown, the company’s top executive responsible for handling partnerships with news publishers, is leaving the company after seven years. The company said Tuesday that Brown, who was previously an anchor for NBC News and CNN, will become a consultant, stepping down from the position of vice president of … Read more

Meta’s Quest 3 VR Headset and Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Serve Up a Bigger Dose of Reality

Ben Bajarin, chief executive and principal analyst at Creative Strategies, said that in a recent survey he conducted, most respondents said they were willing to spend between $250 and $499 on a headset, and the next-largest group were only willing to spend $100 to $249. Of the people he surveyed, 20 percent were open to … Read more

From AI Assistant to image restyler: Meta’s new AI features

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 new features — ranging from an AI assistant to image editing — harness the power of generative AI to make Meta’s technology just that much … Read more

Meta’s $130 Quest 3 charging dock juices up your headset and controllers

Meta is releasing a charging dock for its new Quest 3 headset. For $129.99, the all-in-one charging station allows you to neatly mount and charge the Quest 3 headset and controllers when you’re not immersed in virtual reality. This charging station is the first of its kind for Meta. While the company offered a charging … Read more

The Quest 3 is Meta’s last chance to win the headset war before it truly begins

Meta has shipped six VR headsets in seven years. Only one has been an obvious success. The company sold 20 million Quest headsets, mostly the Quest 2, as shelter-in-place adults tried to escape their homes (and babysit preteens!) during the early pandemic. Since then, Meta’s struggled to justify why it rebranded its entire company around … Read more

Meta’s subsequent Ray-Ban Tales might have simply handed via the FCC

Regardless of the low utilization, it appears Meta is soldiering ahead with era two. The brand new good glasses will allow you to reside stream video to Fb and Instagram and even hear feedback from the individuals watching your stream, Roettgers mentioned in August: “Reside streamers will have the ability to straight talk with their … Read more

Meta’s VR know-how helps to coach surgeons and deal with sufferers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift digital actuality (VR) headset and Oculus Contact controllers in the course of the Oculus Join 3 occasion in San Jose, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Simply days earlier than helping in his first main shoulder-replacement surgical procedure … Read more

Meta’s workplace reopening: staff are again three days per week

Beginning immediately, Meta’s workplaces are going to be full once more. The corporate has been saying since June that any worker assigned to an workplace — which suggests anybody not formally designated as a distant worker — can be required to be in that workplace not less than three days per week. Now, CNBC studies … Read more