The next next thing in AI and AR

Meta is seemingly deprioritizing VR and its Oculus concern to absorption connected reproducing the astonishing occurrence of its Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses. And it makes consciousness — VR is out, AI is in, and Meta’s astute glasses are the implicit standout gadget frankincense acold for AI. But successful the aforesaid week that Alex Heath reported this shake-up successful Command Line, The Information reported that Apple is focusing connected a cheaper Vision headset successful favour of a successor to the Vision Pro. Something’s happening here, and it feels similar it’s going to person a large interaction connected the astir chiseled visions of our VR and AR future.

So with David stepping distant for a show, Alex Heath joins Nilay and myself to speech astir what the heck is going connected with AR and VR successful Silicon Valley close now. But that’s not each we speech about. There’s besides a precise chill caller cosmopolitan distant with a large surface and a constricted audience, Framework has a caller laptop with a precise funny processor, and Qualcomm’s caller laptop processors are yet disposable to reviewers and the wide public. While our squad furiously benchmarks them, we excavation into what it could mean for the wider industry.

And aft those large discussions we, similar Big Tech, pivot to talking astir AI — due to the fact that determination was large quality successful that abstraction this week, too! Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s erstwhile main idiosyncratic and 1 of the large participants successful past November’s attempted coup, has a full caller AI company. He doesn’t look to person a large concern plan, but helium has expansive ideas for the aboriginal of AI. Plus, Perplexity appears to beryllium burning bridges to make a competitory AI hunt engine, and the hostility betwixt creators and the AI companies who privation them some arsenic customers and for grooming information grows much taut.

Finally, we deed a lightning circular that’s got a astonishing manner focus.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started. First, we talked a batch astir chill gadgets:

And then, we made a pivot to AI:

Finally, we had a lightning round: