Meta Ray-Ban Display's first major OS update brings widgets, Instagram Reels feed, two new minigames (GOAT and 2048), a Calendar app, live captions for phone calls, and Spotify integration. The 800 USD HUD glasses are getting their first significant software refresh. https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-ray-ban-display-first-major-os-update-new-app-minigames-features/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Hardware #Meta
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Former Oculus CTO John Carmack calls Meta's 30% VR developer fee 'wasteful churn,' arguing the company subsidizes third-party devs only to tax them 30% back. He suggests Epic's model of no fees for the first 1M USD in revenue would better reward increased economic activity. https://www.roadtovr.com/john-carmack-oculus-cto-meta-fee-structure-critique/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Meta #Carmack
Jason Rubin, co-founder of Naughty Dog and VP of Content at Oculus/Meta for 12 years, has left the company. He was the second longest-standing executive from the 2014 Oculus era. Rubin said he's proud of building the Oculus Content team and Meta's Metaverse Creative Team. https://www.uploadvr.com/jason-rubin-leaves-meta/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Meta
Guess Meta's all in on #AI isn't paying off ;)
"Engagement rates on #Instagram, LinkedIn and #Threads declined last year compared with 2024, while #Facebook, Pinterest and TikTok increased slightly."
Not a good look when you just had to write off the US$ 73 Billion from that failed #Metaverse!
Our #DeMeta group on #Reddit seems to be working 😋:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta
#News #Tech #It #Cnet #SocialMedia #ArtificialIntelligence #Metaverse #Digital #Software #technews
Meta is upgrading Quest's Horizon OS with FrameSync, a new frame timing algorithm that promises visually smoother VR with noticeably fewer hitches. The update replaces Phase Sync and should arrive for all users soon. https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-horizon-os-framesync-smoother-vr-quest/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Meta
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit over privacy concerns with its Ray-Ban smart glasses. The company allegedly sent private camera footage to a Kenya-based subcontractor for manual review to train AI models. The lawsuit accuses Meta of misleading consumers about privacy protections. https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-lawsuit-ray-ban-smart-glasses-privacy/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Privacy #Meta
Looking at how #Facebook and #Metaverse turned out - no worries there with this latest acquisition by #Meta...#AI #Moltbook #SocialNetwork #AIAgents
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7exlcsle4mjfhu3wnhcgizz6/post/3mgpostvkab25
„Good Luck, Have Fun, Don‘t Die“: Fortschrittsangst als Fiebertraum
Wir müssen dringend das Handy abschalten. Wegen dieser ganzen Feeds und wegen KI. Das ist keine richtige Analyse? Zumindest reicht sie für einen Kinofilm.
#Entertainment #Kino #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Metaverse #SocialMedia #VirtualReality #news
I love how the Metaverse came and went with all those billions pissed away and Second Life was here well before and will probably be here long after too...
$70 billion spent. Less than 1,000 monthly users. Meta’s metaverse gamble, once hailed as the future of the internet, has become a ghost town. With $13.7 billion lost in a single year and 20,000 employees laid off, Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision stands as one of the most expensive corporate failures in modern history.
https://youtu.be/Q55oYoBqRWg?si=uc612w4afZ5BJWqM
#technews #businessnews ##minidocumentary #markzuckerberg #facebook #metaverse
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»The rise and fall of #Oculus: How #Meta's #VR ambitions once began.« https://www.heise.de/en/background/The-rise-and-fall-of-Oculus-How-Meta-s-VR-ambitions-once-began-11168684.html?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
Communication between the Fediverse and OpenSim is being worked on again; CW: long (over 600 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta
»#Meta CTO says cuts to #RealityLabs are 'real cause for sadness' — but the company is still 'bullish' on #VR.« https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-cto-vr-metaverse-reality-labs-cuts-sadness-2026-2?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
US Air Force Bans Meta Smart Glasses Over Operational Security https://petapixel.com/2026/02/10/us-air-force-bans-meta-smart-glasses-over-operational-security/ #ArtificialIntelligence #operationalsecurity #metasmartglasses #markzuckerberg #smartglasses #operations #usairforce #metaverse #airforce #military #security #privacy #News #meta #usaf
I'm honored that the new book “Marketing in the Metaverse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Trends in Emerging Economies” references my “Lifespan (Half-Life) of Social Media Posts” research.
Details: https://scottgraffius.com/blog/files/marketing-in-the-metaverse-spotlights-graffius-research.html
#Metaverse #SocialMedia #SocialMediaResearch
💸 Meta blows $90bn on VR
"Less than five years after Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for the metaverse and a VR-centric future, that idea is officially dead."
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/delusions/meta-blows-90bn-on-vr-2026-02/
Edited 2025 to update gender and a few other things.
I'm a software engineer with a degree in Anthropology. I highly recommend the combo.
Most recently I was tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta. I worked in the Integrity Foundation (what other companies call "Trust and Safety") on Better Engineering initiatives and #Metaverse integration, with the teams that build human review software for the 30-40K external reviewers. I'd sworn I’d never work at Facebook, but I decided to see if I could make a difference. I couldn’t. And it wasn't a good fit for either of us. But I learned a lot about how the sausages are made and why they have such a hard time with #contentmoderation.
I've been on #socialmedia for four decades (seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978—this stuff isn't new), and virtually everyone I know I met online somewhere—many I've still never met in person. Needless to say, that's made me pretty passionate about making online communities safe for everyone, and especially marginalized groups.
I'm now a freelance #consultant and semi-retired, working on my own projects (I'll write more on that later), and with my wife's #consulting company (see below). I'm planning to do a lot more writing about #society and #technology (as well some #SFF), and to travel more.
I tend to write long posts (like this one). They may get shorter once my blog is back up. I don't stick to one topic, but I'll try to tag them so you can filter. I post about tech stuff (recent, as well as old geeky #Unix stuff), #social issues, #LGBTQ issues (especially the T), pretty #photos, and random personal anecdotes. When I boost, it's because I think it's something that might be interesting to someone, or some group, that follows me. Those tend to include all the above topics, plus SF&F-related things, and cool science stuff.
I'm #pan, #poly, and #trans. I prefer "they" or "she" for pronouns, but "he" is fine. I spent most of my life thinking I really was a straight cis man who just happened to be a bit quirky and a passionate and tearful ally, so I'm not too picky about how you refer to me. I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about all that, public or private.
I grew up mostly in #Maine and then lived in Massachusetts for a long time, but I now live on sovereign #Swinomish land in #WashingtonState (US), on the edge of the San Juan islands. Despite my first name (that's a story) and current location, I'm not Native American, although I focus a lot on Native American rights. My parents were both active in that area, and that was my introduction to civil rights in general.
I've been a #software engineer at various levels (from programmer to CTO to company founder) for 40+ years. I learned BASIC in high school, taught myself Pascal, FORTRAN and PL/1 in college, learned C as an intern at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, one floor up from the Unix crew), and went on from there. In college, I majored in #Anthropology with a concentration in #Psychology, and that's influenced the way I look at software ever since. Software is designed for people. Software systems build communities (whether intended or not). Anyone who does that damn well better understand how people and #communities work.
I've worked for Bell Labs (psych stats), Sperry Research (window systems, UX design), Apollo/HP (programmable shell, windowing systems, Unix porting, UX design), Bright Ideas (cookbook, educational games), OSF (windowing standards), Alfalfa (multimedia email - SMTP *and* X.400 :)), Wildfire (phone-based voice assistant), Utopia/USWeb (web and security consulting), Saroca (small boats), Messagefire (anti- #spam software), MessageGate (corporate compliance software), Somewhere (software consulting), ZeeVee (web video aggregation, metadata scraping), TiVo (video content correlation, #metadata pipelines), and Meta. Plus a few others.
I've been with my wife, Dr. Mollie Pepper, for over a decade. She's a #sociologist with a focus on #refugee migration, #gender, and violence; the kind of work that gives you PTSD. She did her dissertation on women's roles in the (now extremely defunct) peace process in #Myanmar (aka #Burma). A few years ago she was at a military base frantically processing thousands of Afghan refugees and managing translators (whom Trump is now deporting). She has a consulting company that specializes in evaluating and designing social service projects. You can find her at https://carlsonpepper.com/. Everything I know about #feminism, #intersectionality, #queer theory, #CRT, and #racism I either learned from her, or she gave me the theoretical underpinnings to understand them properly.
I have two grown daughters from my first marriage with Nassim Fotouhi; a kick-ass software engineer/engineering manager who came to the States just before the Iranian revolution.
Shadi Fotouhi is an artist (see my profile background photo, go look up the drug codes and compare them to the mermaids' behavior) turned software engineer; building dynamic room installations will do that to you. She worked in QA at a gaming company, and then at Jibo; a robotics startup. Now she's a senior software engineer at Wayfair--Kubernetes, release configuration, and all that fun stuff.
Shireen Hinckley is a documentarian, digital image technician, video editor, and co-founder of Somewhere Films (https://www.somewherefilms.com/shireen-hinckley); a womxn's filmmaking collective. She works for #Beyoncé at Parkwood Entertainment, where she's an editor and post-production supervisor for all of their video releases. She worked on "Black is King" and just about every video since then, whether it's for Instagram, Times Square, Tiffany's, the Oscars, or Chloe x Halle.
I'm incredibly honored to have those wonderful women in my life. I wouldn't be who I am without them.
A couple other things that may come up, especially in my photos. My mother is an artist who lives in Maine in a round house she designed, and the family built, when I was in high school. And I'm part owner of a #lighthouse on Cape Cod.
--kee
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#Meta’s recent layoffs in its #RealityLabs unit, particularly those affecting #VR related initiatives, have sparked concerns about the future of #virtualreality. VR developers worry about the impact on their industry, some remain optimistic about the long-term potential of VR, particularly in the enterprise market. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/metas-reality-labs-cuts-sparked-fears-of-a-vr-winter.html?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
Mark Zuckerberg Says Smart Glasses Are the Future Now, Despite the Creeps https://petapixel.com/2026/01/29/mark-zuckerberg-says-smart-glasses-are-the-future-now-despite-the-creeps/ #raybansmartglasses #metaraybandisplay #markzuckerberg #smartglasses #clandestine #socialmedia #Technology #metarayban #aiglasses #metaverse #privacy #News #meta
#Meta’s #RealityLabs, responsible for #metaverse development, reported a $6.02 billion loss in Q4, a 21% increase year-over-year. Despite the losses, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects them to peak this year as the company shifts focus towards AI and wearable devices. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/metas-reality-labs-posts-6point02-billion-loss-in-fourth-quarter.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#Meta’s #RealityLabs, responsible for #metaverse development, reported a $6.02 billion loss in Q4, a 21% increase year-over-year. Despite the losses, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects them to peak this year as the company shifts focus towards AI and wearable devices. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/metas-reality-labs-posts-6point02-billion-loss-in-fourth-quarter.html?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
»After the #VR earthquake at #Meta: End of an era and a #newbeginning.« https://www.heise.de/en/background/After-the-VR-earthquake-at-Meta-End-of-an-era-and-a-new-beginning-11145149.html?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
Meta casht ab: Mehr User schauen mehr Werbung zu höheren Preisen
Meta Platforms hat erneut die Werbepreise erhöht und dennoch mehr verkauft. Das beflügelt Umsatz und Betriebsgewinn. Niedrigere Steuern tun ihr Übriges.
#Finanzen #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MetaPlatforms #Metaverse #Wirtschaft #news