Meta Quest 3: The headset model retailing at $500 – now has improved passthrough tech, higher resolution displays and better graphics. As well as updates to the piece of technology, the company teased Meta Quest for Business, which is set to arrive for the platform later this year.
Xbox Cloud Gaming: Alongside the news about Meta Quest 3 hardware,CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the next generation of Meta Quest software set to arrive in December, which includes a virtual screen that can float in either a virtual or mixed-reality space.
Emu: Meta’s new foundational model for image generation comes with generative AI stickers that will allow users to create unique AI stickers in a matter of seconds across Meta apps.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: These glasses, retailing between $299 – $370, include a 12-megapixel camera, an LED light that flips on to alert others that you’re recording, and livestreaming capabilities.
Meta AI: Meta has launched new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including an AI assistant called Meta AI, which will soon come to the Quest 3 VR headset and be able to help plan trips, search the net, and answer general-knowledge questions.
AI Studio: Meta has also launched a platform that’ll let businesses build AI chatbots for the company’s messaging services, and “create AIs that reflect their brand’s values and improve customer service experiences”.
Snap and Microsoft partner on ads in ‘My AI’
Snapchat is partnering with Microsoft as a new advertising partner for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI. The company in May said it would begin testing Sponsored Links in My AI — link suggestions that are paired with the user’s conversation with the AI helper. Snap and Microsoft will be partnering on link suggestions when users ask My AI questions like where to have dinner or where to go on a weekend trip.
X audio and video calls will be a premium subscriber-only feature
Last month, X CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed that video calls would be coming to the app. Now, new code in the X app reveals that both audio and video calls will be supported, but only available to those with an X Premium membership. The feature will allow X users to opt to receive both audio and video calls from other Verified users, from people they follow, or from people in their address book, depending on their selection.
Snap shuts down its enterprise services division
Snap is closing down a division of its company, AR Enterprise Service (ARES), designed to offer its AR expertise to enterprise customers. Announced in March of this year, the offering included a Shopping Suite for brands, a 3D viewer for looking at products, fit and sizing recommendation technology and an enterprise manager. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that “the advent of generative AI has made it easier for companies of all sizes to create try-on experiences for their customers and made it harder for us to differentiate our offering.” The company made the decision that building up ARES would take “significant” investment and it couldn’t continue to fund those efforts.
The latest influencer marketing news
Olaplex has leaned into “dupe” culture, the consumer’s hunger for dupes to prove that some things can’t really be duped — many comments incredulously asked how this mystery brand was ripping off almost identical packaging and how they are claiming to use the same technology.
Nanoinfluencers give brands better ROI than Kim Kardashian. We’ve long heard small influencers (<10k followers) have better engagement rates and offer more content than mega influencers – here’s some data and thinking as to why you should throw more money at the little guys.
