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Meta's new Ray-Ban glasses are pulling a bait and switch

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I tried out Meta's Orion AR glasses. I'd buy them in a heartbeat — if they were actually for sale.

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I tried Meta's Orion computer glasses, and they are very cool.

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Meta leans away from augmented-reality creators as it plans to shut down its AR studio

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Mark Zuckerberg says his weird tan is just a tan — not a hint about a new product.

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Mark Zuckerberg seemed to get quite a bit of sun before speaking with The Rundown AI CEO Rowan Cheung.

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How Mark Zuckerberg's old teaching assistant at Harvard rose to become Meta's CTO and a key lieutenant

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Andrew Bosworth joined Facebook, now Meta, in 2006 and has risen to become its chief technology officer.

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This PC Uses AR Glasses to Create a 100-inch Virtual Workspace, and Yes, it Actually Works

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The problem with the term “spatial computer” is that most devices using the obtuse marketing term don’t actually look like computers.

Bad news for Apple and Meta: Kids are bored with VR goggles

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Many young people aren't using the VR headsets they own, according to a new Piper Sandler survey.

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Here's what it looks like when you hit the vape in an Apple Vision Pro

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I FaceTimed with a friend who was hitting his vape. (That's me in the corner; that's him big.)

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Apple's Vision Pro is meant to be used when you're alone. You look weird if you wear it in public — at least for now.

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The Apple Vision Pro looks weird now when people wear the device — but is that just because we're not used to it?

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Don't have $3,499 to spend on the Apple Vision Pro? Try these five headsets instead.

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Meta Quest 3 and controllers
The Meta Quest 3, pictured above, is one of five cheaper alternatives to Apple's Vision Pro.

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