New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg has announced Meta’s new VR headset that will cost around $1,000. Speaking to Joe Rogan on his podcast, Zuckerberg announced that the new headsets will be out this October.
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Zuckerberg noted the company’s Project Cambria, a high-end VR and mixed-reality headset compared to the current Quest 2, with advanced eyes and faces to more naturally represent the wearer’s expressions and body language. Uses tracking features.
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“Non-verbal communication is greater when people are with each other in addition to verbal communication,” he said. He added that VR headsets are going to give one the ability to “like eye contact in virtual reality.” He explained, “If you smile or if you bark or if you pat, or whatever your expression is, translate that to your avatar in real time.”
Although Zuckerberg didn’t reveal the price of the headset, according to Variety, the next-generation VR headset will reportedly be more than twice as expensive as the current Meta Quest 2 (available in $400 and $500 models). Variety reports that Meta previously confirmed that the upcoming VR headset will cost “significantly more” than $800. In the same interview, Zuckerberg also admitted that Facebook had algorithmically censored the ‘Hunter Biden Laptop’ story for a week. Mark said he did so because of a general request from the FBI to restrict election misinformation.
Mark drew heavy criticism on Twitter for completely blacking out the story, admitting that he censored the story on Facebook, reducing its reach. He said, “So our protocol is different from Twitter. What Twitter did is … they said … you can’t share it at all. We didn’t do that. What we did was … if there was anything We are notified of potential misinformation as…significant misinformation, we also run third-party fact-checking programs because we don’t want to decide what’s right and what’s wrong and…I think That it was five or seven days from the time it was originally being determined whether it was wrong, then Facebook’s distribution was reduced, but people were still allowed to share it.” “So you can still share it, you can still consume it,” he said, after which Joe asked further whether the story’s distribution had been reduced.
Mark responded by saying, “Originally the rankings and newsfeed were a little low, so fewer people would have seen it otherwise.” While the controversy was ongoing, Republicans accused Facebook of suppressing conservative voices.
Mark concluded, “We kind of consider, hey, look, if the FBI is what I see as a legitimate institution in this country… seriously.” He later expressed regret over Facebook’s response to the story. When Joe later asked, “Sorry for not distributing it evenly and throttling the distribution of that story?” Zuckerberg expressed regret.
In 2020, the New York Post uncovered thousands of emails between Biden’s son Hunter and business associates in Ukraine. The New York Post claimed in the disclosure that the email showed how Biden’s son took advantage of his political reach in his overseas business deals.
The New York Times reported that Biden’s presidential campaign rejected a New York Post report about Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter.