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Meta Connect 2024: Orion glasses, Quest 3S headset, Meta AI upgrades, Ray-Ban Meta real-time video, and more
Meta Connect 2024 is a developer-centric event featuring a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He showcased new hardware and software to support two of Meta’s big ambitions: AI and the…
The Meta Quest 3S is up for preorder Wednesday. It starts shipping October 15.
The Orion glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR.
Meta’s next-gen Orion AR glasses come with a wrist-worn “neural interface” for navigation and control.
Meta has yet to announce the languages that will initially be available.
Meta updates Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time AI video, reminders, and QR code scanning
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses got an update with new familiar smartphone features and AI capabilities coming later in 2024.
Onstage during its Connect 2024 developer conference, Meta showed Hyperspace, a feature that lets users scan real-life spaces and explore them in VR.
With the budget Quest 3S now up for preorder, Meta will no longer sell the Quest 2 and Quest Pro once back stock is deleted.
Meta Connect starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT and is set to focus on Meta’s XR platforms, the metaverse, and its generative AI platform, Llama.
The Rodecaster Video is up for preorder starting today. It ships October 10.
The Nothing Ear Open costs $149 and will ship starting October 1.
Insta360 is announcing two additions to its Link webcam line: the Link 2 and Link 2C.
Ephos wants to shatter the market for AI and quantum chips with a new design based on glass
A theoretical physicist believes he has made a breakthrough in photonics research that will enable us to have faster and better processors — a major need in artificial intelligence, quantum…
Rabbit is ready to release the first generic version, which is to say not specific to any app or interface, of its Large Action Model.
The “embedded digital access credentials” work over Bluetooth.
Ahead of the launch of Google TV Streamer, the company’s new set-top streaming box, the tech giant is also bringing updates to all Google TV devices. This includes a home…
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Zin Boats’ bigger, faster electric leisure craft is built from the hull up with PNW pride
After taking on water during the pandemic, Zin Boats is back with a bigger, better electric watercraft that it has built from the hull up — again.
Chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to buy rival Intel, according to multiple reports. The Wall Street Journal broke the news late Friday that Qualcomm had approached Intel about a takeover. The…
Apple published step-by-step instructions for swapping out the new handset’s battery.
The iPhone 16 officially goes on sale Friday. But for its earliest adopters, it arrives with a fundamental compromise baked into the deal. Put simply, this is not the iPhone…
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Plaud’s $169 ChatGPT-powered NotePin has a permanent place in my travel bag
The $169 Plaud NotePin is a tiny magnetic recording device. Recordings are transcribed and AI provide summaries of meetings.
The team points to glass’ optical properties and its “infinite recyclability” as reasons for turning to the material.
There’s ample opportunity in the form of a mobile billboard. Kiwibot is so convinced of this fact that it plunked down $25 million to purchase Nickelytics.
Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby…
Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense.…
The Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort.
Luminate’s hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care
The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment.
It’s time to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 18. We know — updating your phone is annoying, and sometimes those software downloads can take a…
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iPhone 16 Pro Max review: A $1,200 glimpse at a more intelligent future
The iPhone 16’s headliner features are Apple Intelligence, which will be rolled out next month, and its camera system.
The most interesting of the bunch is a new adhesive design that can be loosened by applying low voltage from a 9-volt battery.
