Meta’s been questing around for a new vision for its VR, and it’s finally arrived. At Meta’s 2023 Connect conference, the company introduced the Meta Quest 3, a mixed-reality VR headset.
After two years, Meta has opened its Horizon Worlds metaverse video game up to users on phones and web browsers.
An independent developer for the kids-focused build-your-own game “metaverse” Roblox was booked into jail Sunday after he allegedly fought police outside the company’s community developer conference.
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Meta, the benevolent maker of Facebook, is solving the most important problem in the tech industry, one that every person on the internet definitely knows and cares about. At long last, the characters in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse are getting legs. Sort of.
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We’re getting closer and closer to a world where we might be able to punch Mark Zuckerberg… virtually, of course. That’s because a UFC-like experience is coming to the Meta Quest through a simulated stadium-side experience.
Meta, owner of Facebook and instagram, plans to launch a series of AI chatbots with different personalities on its social networks as soon as September, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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