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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Reports of the Metaverse’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg got really obsessed with the Metaverse and decided we were all going to live in VR, right up until AI became the future instead? Well, good news, Meta hasn’t given up on the Metaverse yet!

gen_Eric:

I honestly thought the “metaverse” was long dead. I had no idea it still existed and was still being worked on. Figured once the VR hype died and the AI hype started, they were basically done with the “metaverse.”

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Facebook and Instagram can now automatically translate and dub reels in Hindi and Portuguese.

Meta’s AI translation feature initially worked with English and Spanish.

Meta wants its metaverse everywhereMeta wants its metaverse everywhere
Janko Roettgers
Facebook is turning into TikTokFacebook is turning into TikTok
Jay Peters
Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

Plain old pictures are out; content is in.

Allison Johnson
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta’s new smart glasses with a display are pretty much sold out.

If you want to buy the Meta Ray-Ban Display, you must book an appointment for an in-person demo, Meta says. Even then, Meta says that the preferred color and size you want may not be in stock. If that’s the case, you’ll be added to a waitlist.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Who needs microphones anyway?

Instagram head Adam Mosseri discovered this week that his “I’m not listening to you through your phone” T-shirt was raising a lot of questions already answered by his shirt. But real heads know that Instagram doesn’t need to listen to you, because it already knows everything anyway.

Nixel:

Yeah, we don’t listen to you… just endlessly track you across the internet building up so much data that it seems exactly like we do

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