Reportedly, new Ray-Ban Meta glasses will be able to display notifications and textual responses from Meta AI on a built-in screen
Reportedly, Apple has starting Vision Pro training with its store employees from Germany, France, Australia, China, and more
Support for spatial videos is one of the several new features coming to Meta's Quest line of virtual reality headsets on February 7. Below are the details
Some developers want to wait to see how successful the Vision Pro headset is before committing to a new application, analysts said
Priced at $3,499, Apple Vision Pro will be available for pre-orders starting today in the US from 5AM Pacific Time
The Apple Vision Pro in-store tutorial for consumers will include scanning users face and glasses to identify the best fit for the session, said Mark Gurman in his newsletter on Bloomberg
Announced in June this year, the Vision Pro is expected to be available by early 2024 in the US at $3,499
The PlayStation VR2 headset boasts Sony's Tempest 3D AudioTech, which allows in-game audio to adapt to players position and head movement
Apple is also reportedly planning to develop AR glasses similar to Meta's Smart Glasses, which were announced earlier this year
Meta said Quest 3 headset would allow users to view their surroundings while seamlessly interacting with virtual objects in their physical space
In a meeting at the company's Menlo Park office, Zuckerberg said that Meta's upcoming Quest 3 headset will be priced at a much lower $499 as compared to Apple Vision Pro's $3,499
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, took the witness stand Tuesday in the FTC's effort to stop the tech giant from buying a virtual reality startup. At issue is whether Meta's acquisition of the small company that makes a VR fitness app called Supernatural will hurt competition in the emerging virtual reality market. If the deal is allowed to go through, the Federal Trade Commission argues, it would violate antitrust laws and dampen innovation, hurting consumers who may face higher prices and fewer options outside platforms controlled by Meta Platforms Inc. The case, expected to wrap up Tuesday, is being heard by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who also oversaw the trial of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Ramesh Sunny Balwani. Both were sentenced to over a decade in prison for their roles in the company's blood-testing hoax.
Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly struggling to gain and keep users on its social virtual reality (VR) platform called Horizon Worlds - its biggest bet to fulfil its $10 billion metaverse dream.
Meta partnered with Microsoft to bring work and productivity tools for Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 from next year, including apps for Microsoft Windows 365 and Microsoft Teams
42% of respondents globally, including in India, said they had visited a retailer in the virtual world to get advice and make a payment or browse a product range when shopping for a physical item
VR, along with other immersive technologies such as augmented reality and mixed reality (AR & MR) is poised as the next big computing platform