Virtual reality headset

The augmented reality Meta Ray-Bans have sold well and have been heavily promoted by the company since their launch in September 2023.

The most recent product announced at this year's Connect is the aptly named VR Glasses.

Although still a VR device, the VR glasses are positioned as, quote, a different product for a different market, end quote, according to VP of VR, Ryan Cairns.

The VR glasses are clearly an Apple Vision Pro competitor and are meant for casual VR entertainment that requires little local computing power.

This helps explain why the announcement barely mentioned gaming, with only one sentence, quote, more than 75 games at launch that you can play solely with hand gestures, and with Xbox Cloud Gaming, you can stream hundreds more, end quote.

The developer page for the product explicitly recommends casual and social mechanics over, quote, virtual locomotion or gun-based gameplay, end quote, since the vast majority of users will use hand tracking instead of a dedicated controller.

The most recent hit has been Forever Pets, which has 7,700 ratings and 4.9 stars.

No new Quest was announced, though a forthcoming Quest 4 is rumored to be explicitly gaming-focused.

嗯。

他们 launch 什么呢？就是 Zuckerberg 这次 launch 的新的 VR glasses，他的 Oculus 有 roll out 新的。那另外一是呢，我们的这个——那个 Meta Glasses 呢，现在呢，除了 Oakley、RayBan 呢，它又有新版的——新的品牌又出来了。

嗯。这次的话，Meta 的这个 glasses 我自己的重点会放在它终于做到轻量化了啊。

轻量化。

Only $299。讲得好像我很有钱可以买一样[笑] 。

[笑]朋友就会等着你买来给他玩[笑] 。

所以这个，这个部分呢，其实我就会......呃......这样子去......呃......开启这个，去 open 这个 conversation。比如说因为之前 Gavin 就有买过 Oculus 3，Oculus Quest 3，所以呢，这次的 VR glasses 呢，新的 Oculus，right？

嗯。

Okrek had been my mentee before ambition or fear or something else drew her further than I'd thought wise.

Jonah Galt, the tech officer, his disassembled VR headset lay in pieces on a bunk.

No sign of him, only the ink-stamped reminder on his notebook.

Backup at 300, always, no excuses.

Yeah, we haven't

talked about VR glasses yet.

Meta VR glasses.

No, and that's because I didn't get to try them and stuff.

But I'm very interested in them.

And that's awesome.

because it makes me feel less crazy.

But also, now we also have the meta VR glasses that now people are like kind of thinking of the use case where, you know, obviously Vision Pro, that was all they cared about, right? Is, oh, use this as your computer or whatever.

All right, back to it.

Now Google's Xreal Aura AR glasses pre-order is open at $1,279, almost exactly $20 less than Meta's upcoming VR glasses.

And that near identical price point is not an accident.

This is the first real head to head between two major platform ecosystems in transparent AR.

Yeah.

Paul Merlaki is the found- He was the C- At 18 he created, um, Oculus, the VR headset.

Okay.

And he sold it to Mark Zuckerberg for $2 billion, and then his next company after he exited Oculus was, uh, Anduril.

So one way that I can explain what it feels like, you're living on the same street you always have, but everyone around you sees things differently than you do.

And it's like when we're born, there's a virtual reality headset that's put on us, and that's how you live your life.

It's like our, our essence never left where it's from, where it originated, but somebody put a VR headset on us, and this is how we're experiencing, I guess, what you call life.

And at some point in time, some people, I don't know why it happens to some people sooner, I don't know why it takes some people longer, no idea, but the VR headset starts to break down.

It starts losing its strength because I'm starting to see things outside of the virtual reality.

But you're walking around and 99.9% of the people around you still have a virtual reality headset on.

You, on the other hand, your headset is breaking down, and you're seeing that you were never on a cliff to begin with.

You're like, "Holy shit." Jar or in your face.

Open weight model 啦。

是啦，好像很劲喔，那什么什么千万啊，什么什么大陆的那堆，呃，就是，就是，呃，什么云源啊，还有好多嘛。那一堆 model 为什么都这么劲啊，那么其实那个底呢，一开始都是由 Llama 那些 model train 出来的，一路叠-叠加一些知识上去的。那么本身呢，就是，呃，Meta 在 open model 那方面是，就是叫做先行者啦这样。那么他们呢就最近呢就有一个，呃，Meta Connect 的，呃，的-的一个，就是活动啦，keynote 啦这样。那么啊 Mark Zuckerberg 呢除了公布一大堆都有一些 gadget 成份的东西啊，就是那些智能眼镜啊，有镜头没镜头也好啊，呃，也都有一些什么 VR 的 headset，再轻一点的 headset 啊这样。那这一部分就我们，就是，就是很多科技的网站都有，呃，报道过啦，也有试戴过啦，但是我们都，呃，没有机会去试玩这些实物啦，那么而且都不便宜啊，要千二块美金一个那样 VR headset 啊。是好轻的，好-好-好，呃，就是好像眼镜重少少这样，但是又要背着个尿袋这样的。那么也是在走 Horizon OS。但是另一个主菜就是它里面也都内置了一个叫做 Muse 的一个 AI 的 agent 啦。那么而 Muse 呢最近呢，呃，在美国的苹果 App Store 呢，它那只 app 呢就-

嗯。

呃，就是升到上，就是 download-