Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on selling the Quest 3 at break-even or a loss, from $300-$500, to grow the ecosystem, missing the shift to TikTok-like feeds, and more
At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg makes one last case to steer XR before Apple arrives... Wired : Meta Is Still Betting on a VR Revolution That May Never Come Peter Cohen / RCR Wireless News : Meta pit...
Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead
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Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees
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Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov has been accused of sexual assault after an Oculus event in 2016; Facebook confirms he left the company earlier this year
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VR camera maker Lytro is shutting down, and former employees are going to Google
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Computer vision-powered kiosk maker Bodega debuts to furious internet backlash on concerns the startup wants to replace mom-and-pop corner stores
As investors, we hope to help founders … Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : Bodega: Silicon Valley's new most-hated startup says its AI-driven vending machines are not evil Paul McDonald / Bodega Blog : So...
Sci-Fi author Neal Stephenson joins augmented reality startup Magic Leap as “Chief Futurist”
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