Meta’s reported spending cuts in its Metaverse division—reportedly as high as 30%—combined with the high-profile hire of Apple’s former head of design, Alan Dye, and its recent push into AI glasses, suggest that the company is rapidly reallocating resources away from VR (Quest headsets) and virtual worlds (Horizon Worlds) toward AI-powered wearables. This pivot should…
Amazon is racing toward a future shaped by automation, but it has not forgotten the humans still on its payroll. Its latest experiment, a pair of smart glasses for delivery drivers, shows how the company aims to boost efficiency without replacing every worker with a machine. The glasses automatically scan packages and provide turn by…
Google has just unveiled a series of partnerships with leading eyewear brands—including Warby Parker, Kering Eyewear, Korean fashion label Gentle Monster, and Chinese manufacturer Xreal—to develop AI-powered smart glasses. The move follows the unexpected success of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which have sold over 2 million units since their 2023 debut, with EssilorLuxottica, owner of…
While the strong start to Switch 2 preorders has captured much of the spotlight, several other key developments in the video game industry have emerged in recent days—developments that bode well for the revenue and earnings outlook of game publishers. Notably, the industry appears to be moving toward broad price increases for game titles. Both…
Bloomberg reported earlier this week that Meta, which successfully launched at the end of 2023 the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, is working on a new generation of wearable devices that are scheduled to ship this year. That includes smart Oakley glasses aimed at athletes and high-end glasses – code-named Hypernova – whose design is closer to the…
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Following the unexpected success of the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses released at the end of 2023, there’s definitely some traction in the smart glasses space and both Meta and Snap presented in recent days new prototypes in an attempt to take an early lead in what could become a major computing platform in the future.…
Earlier this year, Google unveiled an eye-popping text-to-video games model called Genie that allowed to build basic playable games in 2D based on a short description. Six months on, AI in video gaming has made significant advances with gaming giants Roblox and Tencent presenting in recent days their own Generative AI technology that now allows to…
There have been signs of improving activity lately on the two leading Metaverse platforms, Roblox and Epic. While the former posted growth in average daily active users in a 17-22% range in recent quarters, the latter opened its Fortnite virtual world to major brands Lego and Disney that have or are in the process of…
While the discussion about the Metaverse has been centered recently around augmented & virtual reality devices thanks to the Apple Vision Pro launch, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the Metaverse is first and foremost a virtual world where we’ll spend in the future much of our online time to socialize, work and have fun. The…