Meta Quest 3s — a cheaper $300 version of Quest 3 with worse lenses and displays. If you remember the blurry peripheral vision in Quest 2, this cheaper one has exactly the same issue.

But for me the biggest doubt is still content: Half-Life Alyx is the best game ever. I've played it in VR and it was an exceptional experience. But there are just no games worth bothering anymore.

What do you think? Will you buy it for $299? #VR #Meta

Surprisingly, #Facebook started to offer random people to make new secondary profiles. It was strictly against the rules before.

#WTF #SocialNetworks #Meta

Meanwhile, #Meta is launching yet another contest for Horizon Worlds creators with prizes:

https://developers.meta.com/horizon-worlds/learn/documentation/mhcp-program/faq/application-faq #VR

Meta bricked a significant portion of its VR headsets with what was supposed to be a Christmas update.

Unlike Intel who hid their heads into sand during 13/14-gen failure, Meta promised to replace devices that were permanently damaged and brought extra stuff for the support.

More on Reddit

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Financial Times claims that Meta (Facebook) is planning to fill its social networks with "official" AI bots — fake people will have profile pictures, they will share photos, make posts, and engage with others.

According to their testing, average users no longer able to determine who are bot anyway.

Which means, “dead internet theory” is no longer a theory! And foil-hat people were right again.

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According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

The explosive growth underscores a recoil against Meta’s decision to roll back protections against hateful speech and inflammatory political content.

Previously they shocked public with intentions to make AI driven accounts that will interact with real people to boost activity. And blamed users for it — real people no longer want to interact with others on Facebook.

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Instagram is now randomly showing users AI-generated images of themselves to promote AI tools to make more images... that never existed...

Meta insists that "this isn't an ad". The reason behind it is loss of interest of real users in making new content. The change has become even more significant over the last couple of years.

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It seems that Meta tries to run out of candidates on key markets by banning all previously fired people in their blacklist.

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Meta AI allowed users to search for chats of other people who accidentally applied for it. Questions varied from an old man from Iowa looking for a young lady and up to advice on crimes.

All questions were publicly linked to people's profiles.

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Dead internet theory...

People said the same happened with their WhatsApp too.

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It's getting even weirder: according to some reports, Facebook is now pushing extremely awkward chats into its AI bots system. Like "you can talk to a Russian woman".

Bruh, no matter where you live, it's 99% chance that you can talk to a Russian woman anyway. They are everywhere! 😆

Remember that in Futurama the previous civilization died out because of sx bots. The reality is apparently even dumber.

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Holy crap: Meta girl-bot invited a very old man to a real date (that apparently could not exist) so he died.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

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Meta shuts down their biggest remaining VR studios and shifts focus from the metaverse. Will they rename it back to Facebook?

All of these companies were not created by Meta, they were acquired just a few years ago, then forced to focus only on internal projects, and now they are closed.

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