And Meta held its annual developer conference yesterday.
It's still doubling down on the metaverse with the new
VR headset and some celebrity A I avatars for more.
We're bringing in new senior reporter Michelle Casillo Michelle.
Let's talk about the new Quest Three meta VR headset.
You know, I love the last headset. But what do we know so far about the new edition?
Well,
Hanna Meta is positioning the Quest three heads set to
become the best selling VR headset of all time,
a title it would be taking from a itself and
with all the upgrades and a $499 price point,
it's definitely got a lot of things going for it.
Currently, the Quest Pro two is the top headset in terms of sales.
But you might remember last year Meadow followed
up that device with the meta Quest Pro.
That was a super high end model that was a little
out of reach for most people at $1400 this time.
However, it seems like it's going back to its roots.
So it's dropping the price point,
selling the product actually for a loss and focusing on gaming.
In fact, 500 games and apps will be available for the Quest three at launch,
which is on October 10th.
The Quest Three will also focus on mixed reality with a pass through mode that
will allow you to see the real and the virtual world at the same time.
That sounds familiar.
It's because Apple's mixed reality headset,
the vision pro will also allow you to do the same.
However,
Apple's headset will start at $3499 which is way more than Meta's offering.
And people are also buzzing about the celebrity A R avatars that meta unveil.
Tell us about that as well.
Well,
this is part of meta's plan to improve on its artificial intelligence experiences.
It's adding about 28 A I characters that you can interact with
on chat and it partnered with celebrities to create these new personalities.
So new additions include Kendall Jenner as Billy who is a no BS,
right or die companion.
According to the company, Naomi Osaka as Tamika and anime obsessed.
She in trading and also Paris Hilton as Amber.
She's a detective partner for solving who done its
Dogg is also joining in as dungeon master with
a choose your own adventure kind of style task.
And Tom Brady, as we mentioned earlier in the show,
he's actually going to be brew who is a
wise cracking sports debater who pulls no punches.
Now using generative A I meta is also able to let its creators
create content faster than ever including photo stickers based on your text input.
In addition, it will allow you to edit images with A I easily.
For example,
you can change the background of a photo to water color or you can ask it to make a
collage out of images without having to cut and paste
yourself like this fairy cat in a rainbow forest.
Any other announcement of Note Michelle?
Well,
there's two things that I noticed meta was trying to make
wearables happen still with its ray ban meta smart glasses,
it has meta
A I built into it.
So all you need to do to get the weather or other answers is ask, hey meta,
they start at $299 and those will be released on October 17th,
Ceo Mark Zuckerberg also gave an update on threads in
an interview with the verge about the connect announcement.
So you might remember threads if you forgot about it, you're not alone.
Insider intelligence estimates that threads will have 23.7
million users by the end of the year.
That's a little less than half of the user
base for X or the platform formerly known as Twitter
threads rank second to last among social networks.
And it's probably going to stay that way through 2025.
But Zuckerberg told the verge that he believes threads can reach a billion
people and decentralized systems like threads can be the platform of the future.
So intriguing, great information Michelle Cascio.
Thank you so much.