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Meta’s new $1,500Quest Probusiness-targeted VR headset has just arrived, but Meta has confirmed that a mainstream, lower-cost follow-up to the 2-year-oldQuest 2is coming in 2023. The news dropped during Meta’s latestearnings report, which revealed that Meta lost another $3.67 billion on its VR/AR division, with expectations for greater losses in 2023. According to Meta’s report, “growth in cost of revenue is expected to accelerate, driven by infrastructure-related expenses and, to a lesser extent, Reality Labs hardware costs driven by the launch of our next generation of our consumer Quest headset later next year....

And Meta has had enough of it. “Even though scraping is against Facebook’s terms of use, it’s not strictly illegal. Some scraping operations are malicious, but others are academic, or journalistic,” clarified Bischoff. MR.Cole_Photographer / Getty Images Tackling “new challenges” such as scraping was a natural extension of the program. Even though scraping is against Facebooks terms of use, it’s not strictly illegal. According to Meta, the expanded bug bounty program will reward security researchers on two fronts....

Meta Better yet, the images are processed on your own equipment, not Meta’s servers. Meta is also adding sextortion protection. The company already removes accounts and prevents people engaging in sextortion activities from creating new ones. Example screenshot of blurred nude photo on Instagram.Meta It also reports the activity to law enforcement. Nudity warnings for sending photos on Instagram.Meta

When Will Meta Glasses Be Released? In 2024, the company demonstrated a prototype of AR/MR holographic glasses codenamed “Orion.” The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses came out on October 17, 2023. Meta We don’t have a release date on Orion. Meta Glasses Price The price for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses is $299. If you press links we provide, we may receive compensation. Meta We’ll add purchase information on Orion when it becomes available....

Meta says the new mode will let you connect to in-flight Wi-Fi and complimentary video, too. You may need to restart it, though, to change the mode. Meta Quest 3 screen interface on a plane.Meta

Facebook and Instagram will start rolling out a paid verification subscription service this week called Meta Verified, according to an announcement Sunday by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The plan will cost $12 for a web subscription or $15 for iOS and will begin rolling out in Australia and New Zealand this week, with more countries being added soon, he wrote. Facebook has long offered a verified check mark badge to accounts deemed notable and authentic, but the new plan will also provide the check mark to paying customers who can verify their identity with a government-issued ID....

Meta The Meta Store will be broken up into demo areas. To make things easier. Meta has a new Shop tabon its website. Meta That said, the store is pretty limited in reach. Meta

When Will the Meta Quest 4 Be Released? Most estimates place the expected launch sometime in either 2025 or 2026 to coincide with that yearsMeta Connectevent. A report fromThe Informationindicates that a 2026 release is the most likely of the two vague dates. Primarily because theres been no official word from Meta yet despite the rapid approach of the end of 2024. We wont know unless and until Meta lets the world know whats happening....

With new freebies each month, for as long as you’re a member Free VR games? Now, if only there were more benefits to this monthly plan. The games are normally priced at $29.99 and $19.99, respectively. Meta Similarities with other game subscription services end with free games, however.

It doesn’t matter to me, because I call it the Oculus Quest. I’m not alone. Plenty of my friends boughtQuest 2headsets in the past year. They call it the Oculus Quest. But now, midstream… an attempt at a name change. That throw in of move makes no sense at all. Same Mission.pic.twitter.com/USJafAPEdW I mean, I get it.Facebook becomes Meta, because of themetaverse. Maybe Facebook (Meta) sees Quest as that primary product name now....

The company said it still plans to release wrist wearables and AR glasses. But a series of reported product cancellations suggests it will take some time before the wager pays off. “The path to groundbreaking products is not a straight line,” he said in thetweet. Meta didn’t respond to a request for comment. Here’s what you should probably know about Meta’s consumer hardware efforts. What do glasses, smartwatches and video chat devices have to do with the metaverse?...

Friday, Meta employees were reportedly told thatservices like free laundry and dry cleaning had been cut, while the free dinner had been delayed – all in all, several slight reductions among a lavish slate of benefits that might be a sign of things to come for the tech industry. Every industry with employees fortunate enough to work from home through the pandemic is seeing another paradigm shift as employers begin requiring a return to offices....

Facebook parent company Meta on Monday threatened to remove news from its social media platform in the US if Congress approves a bill that would allow news organizations to collectively bargain with tech companies for compensation. Andy Stone, Meta’s head of policy communications,wrote on Twitterthat Facebook would “be forced to consider removing news” if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act becomes law. He added that the proposal fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on Facebook “because it benefits their bottom line – not the other way around....