2024-12-06
something something skynet
The Hollywood Reporter
Meta teams up with James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision to bring “live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring big-name IP” to Quest headsets
all thanks to James Cameron Maureen Buccellato / FlickDirect Entertainment News … : James Cameron Partners with Meta to Transform 3D Entertainment for Meta Quest Ahmed Farhath / Se...
2024-08-16
HDMI in?! meta is absolutely CRUSHING it with these OS updates rn i don't know if it's because of @zuck's chains or what, but whatever Reality Labs has cooking for Connect this year is going to wild.
The Verge
Meta releases an app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro to let the headsets display video from devices with an HDMI or DisplayPort output; a capture card is required
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge :
2024-05-04
Dear Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, For mind-blowing AR, we need realistic virtual objects. This requires access to the camera feed so that reflections and lighting will match the physical environment of the user. Currently, neither of you support this. …
Apple
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $90.75B, net income down 2% to $23.64B, and announces a $110B share buyback, its largest yet
2024-02-03
facetiming with my Apple Vision Pro friends today
Bloomberg
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees
Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
2023-09-28
Alright, so the pass-through on the new @metaquest 3 is MILES better than the Quest Pro - clarity, color correction and saturation, little-to-no warping, and you can actually see your phone screen (and other screens).
Bloomberg
Meta debuts the $500 Quest 3, featuring a 30% higher resolution than the Quest 2, double the processing power, new lenses, a thinner design, and new controllers
- New mixed-reality headset to start at $500, a $200 increase — Apple to launch rival device, Vision Pro, early next year
Alright, so the pass-through on the new @metaquest 3 is MILES better than the Quest Pro - clarity, color correction and saturation, little-to-no warping, and you can actually see your phone screen (and other screens).
The Verge
Hands-on with Meta Quest 3: an iterative update, but its mixed reality pass through video is less grainy than the Quest Pro and offers color, unlike the Quest 2
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
2023-03-03
The ‘Bold Glamour’ effect on TikTok is about 80% of my fyp right now and people are freaking out about how real it looks - so I figured I'd offer a quick explain why it's different than your traditional filter/effect. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
A look at TikTok's viral Bold Glamour filter, which an expert says likely uses generative adversarial networks, amid fears the tool may hurt users' self-esteem
which could be pretty bad ...And TikTok refuses to confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI https://www.theverge.com/...