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Mark Zuckerberg has just wrapped up his Meta Connect 2024 keynote, in which he announced new products such as the $300 Quest 3S VR headset. But something that made an unexpected splash at the show is a project called 'Orion'—a pair of holographic AR smart glasses.
There's a cheaper Quest 3 coming out next month. It's called the Quest 3S, and it comes with many of the same features as the Quest 3, including the same processor, but shaves some pennies with cheaper lenses.
Mark Zuckerberg has not been shy of sharing his opinions regarding Apple's products or strategies and continues to highlight the competing visions that set Apple and Meta apart. In a recent interview, the topic was brought up again, and Zuckerberg did not hold back from sharing his opinion on how his company is fundamentally completely different from Tim Cook's company. He even went on to criticize Apple's approach to product development.
Meta's next high-end VR headset, the supposed Quest Pro 2, may be in doubt. But now there are reports of a new affordable mixed-reality headset from the firm.
Meta had plans to introduce a premium mixed-reality headset to the market, likely in response to take on the Apple Vision Pro. However, according to the latest report, the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, informed his employees to abandon all work done after a product review meeting. The Chief Executive was probably observing how well Apple’s $3,499 AR headset was performing in various regions, and seeing as how the device had yet to cross 100,000 shipments in the U.S., Zuckerberg may have envisioned that Meta’s own offering would suffer the same fate.
Despite producing one of the best VR headsets around, the Quest 3, Meta's Reality Labs division just isn't making any money. Nearly $2 billion of revenue in 2023 was completely swallowed by $18 billion of expenditure, leaving Mark Zuckerberg's dream of the metaverse facing a loss of $16 billion. And the CEO has said that the losses will continue to worsen for the foreseeable future.
Siggraph is an annual conference that hosts discussions on the latest trends and research in computer graphics and interactive technologies, but Nvidia and Meta's CEOs somewhat ignored that brief as they sat down for an hour-long chat about all things AI, including generative systems, smart glasses, and a whole host of somewhat bizarre anecdotes.
And lo on the 23rd day of the seventh month of the year of our Zuck, verily did Meta release a new open source AI model, all 405 billion parameter's worth. Known as Llama 3.1, it is apparently the largest such open source model yet and so Meta's main man Mark Zuckerberg has taken to various YouTube channels to promote its technological and social munificence. Oh, and to speculate on a future of AI that's predictably icky, plus complain about his competitors, mainly Apple.