Meta Connect convention: Highlights from Mark Zuckerberg’s speech

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday delivered a speech on the Meta Connect occasion on the firm’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

The bulletins are anticipated to point how Meta plans to navigate the shift to synthetic intelligence from augmented and digital actuality applied sciences.

Key highlights

Zuckerberg introduced Quest 3 Mixed Reality machine.  The headset will begin transport on Oct. 10.

The Quest 3’s value begin at $500. It boasts the identical mixed-reality know-how as in Meta’s Quest Pro machine launched final 12 months.

Zuckerberg mentioned Roblox launching on VR.

The CEO mentioned that Meta is focussing on constructing the way forward for human connection, a near-future the place individuals work together with hologram variations of their mates or coworkers and with AI bots constructed to help them.

“Soon the bodily and digital will come collectively in what we name the metaverse,” he mentioned.

The subsequent model of Meta’s Ray Ban Stories sensible glasses have been launched, which is able to let individuals document video or pictures, livestream, take heed to music and work together with the Meta AI assistant.

“Smart glasses are the perfect type issue so that you can let an AI assistant see what you’re seeing and listen to what you’re listening to,” Zuckerberg said.

The glasses, priced at $299, will be launched on Oct. 17.

“A lot of this effort around chatbots and stories and other ways just to keep engagement going (like) AI-driven personalization and stuff like that, that’s the overarching challenge for the company,” he mentioned.

At the time that individuals can obtain its new AI fashions immediately or via a partnership that makes them accessible on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure together with security and content material instruments, mentioned Zuckerberg.

Before the occasion, Meta mentioned that it was delivering on a plan introduced early final 12 months to roll out cellular and Web variations of its flagship social VR platform Horizon Worlds.

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Updated: 27 Sep 2023, 11:28 PM IST