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Archives for March 2024

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Mark Zuckerberg has more to say about the Vision Pro and how much worse it is than his Quest headsets.

Once Apple released the Vision Pro, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded with a video saying his company’s Quest 3 headset is “the better product, period.”

Now he’s back with more takes, posting this on Threads in response to a post that said, “Apple is selling pretty much the device Meta wants to reach in 3-5 years.”

I don’t think we’re saying the devices are the same. We’re saying Quest is better. If our devices weigh as much as theirs in 3-5 years, or have the motion blur theirs has, or the lack of precision inputs, etc, then that means we’ll have regressed significantly.

Yes, their resolution is higher, but they paid for that with many other product tradeoffs that make their device worse in most ways. That’s not what we aspire to.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
He-said, she-said: Vision Pro wedding edition.

Here’s the story behind that photo of a bride giving her new Vision Pro-wearing husband the stink eye. Speaking to Futurism, the now notorious groom says:

“My wife was like, ‘We’re not taking photos in the Vision Pro,’ but I told her it was just for the meme.”

The bride says she wasn’t actually mad and gave the okay after everyone else left. That said, the Vision Pro “was the last thing [she] wanted pictures of.”

At least it wasn’t during the ceremony.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Is my Persona better?

There’s a new Vision Pro update out, and visionOS 1.1 supposedly improves everybody’s favorite feature, Personas. But I think it’s still the stuff of nightmares. I FaceTimed my friend, and according to her: I still look too sleepy, my mouth moves more, and my eyes are better but not quite right.

“It looks more like you, but it’s still not you.” What do y’all think?

My first persona
My new persona
What I look like reacting to screenshots of my Personas
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My first persona
Amrita Khalid
Amrita Khalid
The latest Eli Roth joint is a six-episode VR series premiering on Meta’s Horizon Worlds.

The premiere episode of “Faceless Lady” will debut on April 4th at 5 pm PT on Meta’s social VR platform, with the remaining five episodes dropping every Thursday, Variety reports. This is the third scripted VR original that Roth and Crypt TV have made for Meta, following 2022’s “Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat” and “Be Mine.”

Those without a Meta Quest headset can catch the first two episodes on Crypt TV’s Facebook page.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Meta’s outage took Quest VR headsets out too, but it’s trying to fix that.

It wasn’t just Meta’s social networks that went down yesterday — internet-connected Quest headsets, which should be able to work offline, showed an error message that prevented their main interface from loading, making them useless, as UploadVR detailed today.

Mark Rabkin, Meta’s VP of VR, blamed a login server bug yesterday, adding that Meta will try to make sure Quest devices are “more resilient.”

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Apparently Foxtrot is still going?

As a nerd kid, this was one of my favorite newspaper comic strips. But I haven’t looked at the funny pages in many years, and had assumed this one had long since expired.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw a Foxtrot strip referencing Apple’s recently-launched Vision Pro.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
VR / XR / AR shots fired.

Meta’s CTO says there are reasons Meta thumbed its nose at Google re: AndroidXR (something The Info reported this morning). He suggests Google’s talking shit about Meta behind its back and demanding “restrictive terms.”

I can see why Google might try: Oculus was once so willing to partner, it left Samsung and Xiaomi in charge of its mobile fate — and Google has a long, successful history of tying up partners with contracts in exchange for Google apps and a cut of search revenue. But does Meta need Google, or the other way round?