Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep
and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains ...
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest attempt to reframe Meta, now on “personal superintelligence”, but they face tech and societal challenges
They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the ‘Metaverse’... Live tech demos are a bitch.
Meta debuts the highly requested Passthrough Camera API for Quest 3/3S as an experimental feature; developers can't ship apps with the API on Horizon Store yet
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Microsoft releases Xbox Cloud Gaming in beta on the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers
here's how to play Kieron Verbrugge / Press Start : Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Now Available On Meta Quest VR Headsets David Matthews / TechSpot : Meta Quest owners can now play Xbox gam...
Adobe plans to buy UI design and prototyping tool Figma for ~$20B, half cash and half stock; CEO Dylan Field will continue to lead Figma; ADBE closed down 16.8%
Today, we're announcing that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe. TechCrunch : After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Wa...
Adobe's Figma deal raises big questions about its M&A whack-a-mole strategy in response to free alternatives; the deal is 50x Figma's reported 2022 ARR of $400M
Bryce Elder / Financial Times : Tweets: @amaldorai , @workmj , @bitech , @ohmdee , and @hkanji Tweets: Amal Dorai / @amaldorai : I'm not surprised that Adobe is acquiring Figma fo...
Source: HTC's Vive Flow VR headset, to be released on Thursday, features six degrees of freedom tracking and is mostly for content consumption and casual gaming
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Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps
Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
Oculus' latest update for its Quest headsets adds a Live Overlay casting feature that allows mixed reality capture with just an iPhone model XS or newer
v29 is packed with features — Oculus will soon roll out its v29 software for Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and this one adds more features and functionality to the lineup.