Meta Connect is over for another year, with nothing left but a few paper plates on the floor and a bunch of new AR/VR gear on the table. Because we are beautiful .
The title is the act . Dropping the base price to $300 meant some compromises, such as removing the pancake lenses, dropping 4K, and reducing storage space.
3S seems like a smart idea, as cost remains the second biggest barrier to getting VR/AR devices into people’s homes. The first, of course, is that there still isn’t a really killer use case to convince the vast majority of people.
To direct users to the Quest 3 series, . Of course, given the longstanding developer complaints that both Quest 2 and 3 were difficult to develop for, this makes a lot of sense.
The other big news to come out of the show is the announcement of the show . The company admits that these aren’t ready to go on sale yet, but it’s working with developers to improve the technology for unspecified future releases.
I’ll be honest: I’ve always been skeptical of AR’s potential to be as smart and useful as I need it to be. I won’t invest until it’s at least as useful as Jeeves – not from a search engine, but from PG Wodehouse – even if it never gets to fold my laundry.
– Dan Cooper
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It’s a throwback with a modern twist.
Nathan Ingraham was lucky enough to play The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and is happy to share his thoughts. Although you play as the main character for the first time, this is a top-down throwback Zelda title. Nathan is a fan, but it’s very similar Tears of the kingdomfound the sheer breadth and depth of available tools frustrating to marshal and organize.
We have already played with the new console.
Speaking of the chance to play everything ahead of time, Jessica Conditt has only bloomed and already played with the PS5 Pro. . But if you have $700 and really want your games to pop like never before, you should buy it.
Mainly because it doesn’t back up his claims that he’s better than a flesh-and-blood lawyer.
DoNotPay, a “robot lawyer” designed to help you deal with life’s little legal annoyances, has been fined $193,000 by the FTC. . It’s part of the FTC’s crackdown on companies that use AI to make boastful claims about its abilities.
Spoiler: Sam Altman will get equity in the new company.
It seems so . It’s both a response to the boardroom drama that saw Altman briefly fired from the project, and the prospect of OpenAI becoming a cash cow.
