Forbes September 26, 2024
On June 25, Meta held its Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park, California. Some of our staff was at the event and saw in-person demos of the new Quest 3S, Llama 3.2 and the updated Meta-RayBan smart glasses that are capable of realtime translation and live broadcasting.
In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched his Metaverse Strategy. Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become an online ‘metaverse’ and renamed the company Meta.
At that time, Zuckerberg went all in on the concept of the Metaverse and built his company’s focus on a VR future. In an article I wrote in April 2023, I updated Meta’s Metaverse progress and pointed out that AI could derail some of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse’s momentum,...