Everything announced at Meta Connect 2024

Meta has a clump of caller hardware and AI quality coming retired of its Meta Connect lawsuit today, including a caller Quest 3S VR headset, an enlargement of Meta AI features, a caller Llama model, and a archetypal look astatine the caller Orion augmented world glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the signifier connected Wednesday with a caller style and demonstrated caller features including unrecorded translation betwixt English and Spanish.

Here’s everything announced astatine Meta Connect:

Meta has revealed its Orion augmented world glasses, and they look astir similar a trendy brace of frames you could prime up without each the tech inside. Orion uses Micro LED projectors wrong the framework and beams images successful beforehand of your eyes via waveguides successful the lenses. Orion has the aforesaid kinds of generative AI capabilities arsenic the existent Ray-Ban astute glasses — but adds a ocular constituent to marque it much helpful, similar adding labels connected apical of ingredients you’re looking astatine connected a table.

The glasses brace with a wireless compute puck and a “neural wristband” you deterioration connected your limb that responds to gestures similar punches. Orion isn’t rather acceptable arsenic a product, though, truthful it isn’t going connected sale.

Meta’s latest VR headset is the Quest 3S, and it’s launching astatine the Quest 2’s archetypal starting terms of $299.99. The caller headset has galore of the aforesaid features arsenic the much costly Quest 3, including the aforesaid Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, and uses the aforesaid Touch Plus controllers. The little terms constituent is imaginable acknowledgment to the Quest 3S’s deficiency of extent sensor, little solution screens, narrower tract of view, and little compact bundle than the 3. With the 3S present successful place, Meta is simplifying its VR lineup by discontinuing the Quest 2 and Quest Pro.

Meta’s precise chill Ray-Ban astute glasses are getting caller bundle updates that adds a Reminders diagnostic that tin assistance you support way of your time similar remembering your market list. There are besides improvements to Meta AI responsiveness, and the institution is moving connected real-time code translation. On the hardware front, Meta is launching caller styles similar a transparent framework and a caller scope of modulation lenses.

Soon, your Facebook and Instagram feeds volition see Meta AI-generated contented “based connected your interests oregon existent trends” successful a conception called “Imagined for you.” It tin incorporated your look into made-up scenarios similar “an enchanted realm,” and you tin bash things similar ideate yourself arsenic a video crippled quality oregon astronaut. The diagnostic is simply a trial for now.

Meta is continuing its task to marque celeb chatbots after shutting down its alternate persona diagnostic connected Instagram, which had weird options similar Tom Brady playing arsenic “Bru.” Now, Meta is connecting caller celebrities with AI versions of themselves connected Meta AI, including Awkwafina, John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, Kristen Bell, and Dame Judi Dench. You tin get entree to these Meta AI voices connected Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook successful the US.

Meta has a caller Llama exemplary with 1 cardinal update: the quality to process visuals. This is thing competitors person had for the past year, truthful it’s an important measurement guardant for Meta’s model. The caller mentation besides comes successful smaller packages designed for mobile.