Jay Peters
Adam Mosseri is here.
He’s on crutches but seems happy!
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Jay Peters
Almost time to Connect.
Alex Heath, Kylie Robison, and I are all at Meta’s Connect conference to cover the show.
Ahead of the 1PM ET keynote, you can catch up on what to expect.
Image: Jay Peters / The Verge
Wes Davis
Are Meta Avatars about to get their glow-up?
The Meta app has started teasing improvements to Horizons avatars when users try to edit them, according to an X post spotted by UploadVR.
The slides promise “more expressive, authentic stickers, profile pics, and more,” along with updated editing controls and ways to quickly change your avatar’s look. I’d imagine we’ll learn what that all means this week during Meta Connect.
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Is this really an ad for Meta’s Quest 3S — and will it really cost $299.99?
A Reddit user posted an off-screen video of a certainly real-looking ad for Meta’s leaky Quest 3S VR headset, as reported by UploadVR.
The ad puts a $299.99 price tag on the 128GB model, which seems affordable compared to the Quest 3 that launched at $500.
Sean Hollister
Is Valve cooking up an Arm-powered VR headset?
Or, is it quietly bringing Windows-native VR games to the leaked Meta Quest 3S? Or Windows-native games to Arm, period? Or is this just another experiment?
Either way, this datamining leak from Valve watcher Brad Lynch is an incredibly intriguing hint. (Lynch has been sniffing around Valve’s “Deckard” standalone VR headset project for years.)
Emma Roth
The iPhone 15 Pro will let you take 3D photos soon.
The device already supports spatial video, but the latest iOS 18.1 developer beta brings spatial photos to the iPhone 15 Pro too. This allows for a more immersive experience when viewing photos on Apple’s Vision Pro headset.
The iPhone 16 will also come with support for spatial photos and videos when it launches later this week.
Sean Hollister
TP-Link has a new Bluetooth driver that maybe fixes PSVR2 PC tracking performance.
My biggest problem with Sony’s PSVR2 PC adapter was controllers that kept misbehaving — even though I was using Sony’s first-recommended TP-Link UB500 Bluetooth adapter to pair them.
But TP-Link has now shipped a driver for you to experimentally test — and Sony says it’s fixed some distortion and AMD refresh rate options in the app, too.
UB500 partial incompatibility with PSVR2 controllers - Home Network Community
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Wes Davis
The Quest 3S may lack a headphone jack.
Or if it does, then it’s very well hidden. There’s no 3.5mm audio port apparent in any of the images shared in a South Korean forum post that UploadVR spotted yesterday.
Click through the gallery below to see more, including pictures of the buttons (might one of those be that rumored Action Button?)
1/8Is this the Meta Quest 3S? Image: dpxl / Arca.live