At Meta Connect 2023, Quest 3, smart glasses, and more will be revealed
At Meta Connect 2023, Meta unveiled a number of significant announcements, including a mixed reality headset and smart eyewear that can take calls and stream live video.
At the ongoing 10th edition of Link at the Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 27 and 28, Meta unveiled new artificial intelligence (AI) products for customers including a mixed reality headset, bots that produce photorealistic images, and smart glasses that are capable of playing music and answer calls.
The event's opening speaker, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, discussed how the development of AI and metaverse technologies is changing how people interact with the physical and digital worlds. According to Zuckerberg, Meta is concentrating on mixed reality, which will combine real-world interactions with the digital world, in an effort to increase their investment in AI. For this, Meta is releasing the eagerly awaited Meta Quest 3, a rival to the June-released Apple Vision Pro.
According to a blog post by Meta, Meta Quest 3 is the world's first widely used headset designed for mixed reality and the company's most potent headset to date. According to the post, it has two times as much graphic processing power as its forerunner and is the first smartphone in the world to use the latest Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor.
Furthermore, the Quest 3 doesn't need a battery pack like the Apple Vision Pro does. Quest 3 has 10 times more pixels than Quest 2 and a 30% greater quality, according to Zuckerberg's keynote speech, according to an HT Tech report.
This year, Quest 3 will receive more than 100 new and improved titles, many of which will incorporate mixed reality. Users of Quest will also get access to Xbox Cloud Gaming in December. It will begin shipping on October 10.
A generative AI assistant named Meta AI, developed by Meta and based on the Llama 2 big language model, has also been released. Thanks to a collaboration with Bing Search, Meta AI can access real-time information. According to a Reuters report, Meta AI will also be included in the company's new Ray-Ban smart glasses, which can livestream broadcasts of what a user is viewing directly to Facebook and Instagram.
The business recently unveiled Emu (Expressive Media Universe), a text-based tool that produces photorealistic visuals in a matter of seconds. The blog post also mentioned that Meta is developing a platform that users can use to build personalized AI bots that will have accounts on Facebook and Instagram and show up as avatars in the metaverse. The business has developed 28 chatbots with distinct personalities that mimic famous voices, including those of Charli D'Amelio, Snoop Dogg, and Tom Brady, to demonstrate its capabilities.
At the occasion, Zuckerberg stated, "Sometimes we innovate by publishing something that's never been seen before. But occasionally we innovate by taking something fantastic but extremely expensive and making it accessible to everyone or even free.
