Andrew Bosworth says Facebook Reality Labs will become Reality Labs, Oculus brand will shift to Meta for hardware and Oculus Quest app starting in early 2022
Well the cat's (officially) out of the bag: Our company is now Meta to better reflect who we are and our ambitions to help build the metaverse.
Researchers at Facebook Reality Labs detail work on giving AR users “perceptual superpowers”, attempting to automatically amplify what users are trying to hear
important for our future AR glasses! https://tech.fb.com/... @techatfacebook : The audio team at @FBRealityLabs Research is working on novel technologies to enable both audio presence and perceptual s...
Facebook says it will unify its AR/VR teams into a group called Facebook Reality Labs, renames Oculus Connect event to Facebook Connect, to be held on Sept. 16
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Researchers from UCSF and Facebook Reality Labs have successfully decoded question-and-answer dialogue from brain signals in real time, via brain implants
The project is the first to decode question-and-answer speech from brain signals in real time — In 2017, Facebook's Mark Chevillet …
Sources: a team at Facebook Reality Labs has been working on a voice assistant since 2018 and has contacted vendors in the smart speaker supply chain
basically: their AI wasn't strong enough to consistently get voice commands correct https://www.recode.net/... Dan Frommer / @fromedome : Promise I'm not trolling: Do people actually want to use anyth...
Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets
including its code and the data set we used to train it—so the wider VR community can accelerate their research. http://twitter.com/... @fb_engineering : Facebook Reality Labs has built DeepFocus, a n...
Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs
The hardware group is now focused on Portal and other projects, while far-off ideas are part of Reality Labs