{"id":13634,"date":"2024-09-25T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2024-09-25T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:24:22","slug":"meta-unveils-new-virtual-reality-headset-and-other-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13634","title":{"rendered":"Meta Unveils New Virtual Reality Headset and Other Products"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At an event in Silicon Valley, Meta exhibited a range of products meant to blend the real world and virtual reality, with a healthy dose of A.I.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions of dollars, hired thousands of employees and worked for roughly a quarter of his life in pursuit of a vision: a future in which the physical and digital worlds are interwoven to connect people around the globe.<\/p>\n

The dream still seems far-fetched. But on Wednesday, his company Meta took one step closer.<\/p>\n

Meta introduced a series of new products during an event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., including an updated, low-cost version of its Quest 3S virtual reality headset and a series of enhancements to its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI.<\/p>\n

Those updates will bring a host of celebrity voices<\/a> to the company\u2019s A.I. assistant \u2014 including those of Awkwafina, John Cena and Dame Judi Dench \u2014 that will respond to users when asked questions. The assistant is incorporated across most of Meta\u2019s largest apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, during an event on Wednesday that introduced several new products.<\/span>Jim Wilson\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The new products are Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s attempt to meld his vision of what social networks can be with what is possible now. Though Meta has had some success selling its virtual reality headsets and a surprise hit in its Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses<\/a>, Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s metaverse is still years from reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe can start to see how the future of computing and the future of human connection are going to look,\u201d he said at the event on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s vision is to connect the physical world with virtual reality.<\/span>Jim Wilson\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the last few years, Meta has spent nearly $50 billion on its Reality Labs division \u2014 the part of the company working on hardware. It does not stand to turn a profit any time soon. That is on top of the increasingly high costs of Meta\u2019s expansion into artificial intelligence and data centers.<\/p>\n

By building millions of smart glasses and VR headsets, Mr. Zuckerberg hopes to bring the many people who already use his apps into a different kind of social network. And by coupling those products with the Meta AI assistant, he hopes he can make them useful enough for people to want to come back to them regularly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This story is developing. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At an event in Silicon Valley, Meta exhibited a range of products meant to blend the real world and virtual reality, with a healthy dose of A.I.Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions of dollars, hired thousands of employees and worked for roughly a quarter of his life in pursuit of a vision: a future in which the physical and digital worlds are interwoven to connect people around the globe.The dream still seems far-fetched. But on Wednesday, his company Meta took one step closer.Meta introduced a series of new products during an event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., including an updated, low-cost version of its Quest 3S virtual reality headset and a series of enhancements to its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI.Those updates will bring a host of celebrity voices to the company\u2019s A.I. assistant \u2014 including those of Awkwafina, John Cena and Dame Judi Dench \u2014 that will respond to users when asked questions. The assistant is incorporated across most of Meta\u2019s largest apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, during an event on Wednesday that introduced several new products.Jim Wilson\/The New York TimesThe new products are Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s attempt to meld his vision of what social networks can be with what is possible now. Though Meta has had some success selling its virtual reality headsets and a surprise hit in its Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses, Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s metaverse is still years from reality.\u201cWe can start to see how the future of computing and the future of human connection are going to look,\u201d he said at the event on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s happening.\u201dMr. Zuckerberg\u2019s vision is to connect the physical world with virtual reality.Jim Wilson\/The New York TimesIn the last few years, Meta has spent nearly $50 billion on its Reality Labs division \u2014 the part of the company working on hardware. It does not stand to turn a profit any time soon. That is on top of the increasingly high costs of Meta\u2019s expansion into artificial intelligence and data centers.By building millions of smart glasses and VR headsets, Mr. Zuckerberg hopes to bring the many people who already use his apps into a different kind of social network. And by coupling those products with the Meta AI assistant, he hopes he can make them useful enough for people to want to come back to them regularly.This story is developing. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13636,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13637,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions\/13637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}