Considering that all the eyes were on Elon Musk and his Twitter pranks This week, you would be forgiven for not paying much attention to Mark Zuckberg. However, Meta The CEO has kept Sauronesque his laser focused gaze reverse craftiness. The problem is, they’re not likely to materialize anytime soon.
Alex Heath at The Verge reported a detailed story about how Zuckerberg’s augmented reality ambitions merge with reality. Meta has already brought billions of people into its metaverse division, but the hardware required to develop it — specifically the AR glasses made by Meta — is still likely years away. Right now, the company’s roadmap puts out Meta’s AR glasses in 2024, but as Heath explains, the project has been delayed a few times, so the specs probably won’t appear for the time being. until later.
It’s another complication in Meta’s increasingly muddled vision of a VR world. Despite Zuckerberg’s assertion that the metaverse will be an open haven for creators and participants, the company recently increase hackles when details emerged that it would lose nearly half of its revenue from sales made within its Horizon Worlds platform. It was a move that could set up a fee war similar to the one between Apple and Epic Gamesand one that raises the question of how free Meta would be to allow its virtual realm to be.
Keep an eye out for the rest of this week’s gadget news.
Apple delay
If you’re looking to buy a new MacBook, you may have to wait a few more months. According to a report by Mark Gurman at BloombergApple’s latest supply chain troubles stem from increasingly strict China Vivid lock. The delay mainly affects the MacBook Pro, which is being delayed until late May and late June.
Currently, other Apple products have not yet had a delay. But Pegatron, an iPhone manufacturing and assembly company in China, has closing establishments earlier this week due to a Covid outbreak.
Peloton changes in the direction of registration
it gets a messed up a few months for Peloton. Now, fitness equipment supplier and well-being missionary says it will price increase of the subscription service on June 1. The monthly membership fee will increase in the United States and Canada, from $39 to $44 ($49 to $55 in Canada). Prices elsewhere were unchanged, as Peloton said it is “continuing to build our library of content for our global audience.”
Peloton also discount Its hardware staples, Bike and Tread, run up to $500. It was an inevitable move, after the company bet big on the trend of home workouts and produce more units compared to those willing to buy.
As with the new Peloton Tutorialit’s an attempt to focus the company’s efforts on something it hopes will appeal to its existing subscribers.
Audio Competition
On Monday, smart speaker maker Sonos notice that it bought sound company Mayht. The Dutch startup specializes in audio transducers — the technology that turns electrical signals into physical sound waves emitted by your speakers. Mayht’s big innovation is that it has developed a way to pack more sound into a smaller speaker design. The company introduced its Heartmotion technology at CES earlier this year. The company even appealed to its prospective customers, saying that Mayht’s technology was able to bring the bombastic sound quality of the Sonos One into the astonishing form factor of the Echo Dot. Mayht’s speaker technology is still in beta. However, that proof of concept — and possibly comparisons to its own products — is clear that Sonos is interested in spending more than $100 million to buy Mayht.
Browse only
All feeling like you’re being watched? If you’re on the internet, you probably are. Web browsers certainly like to store your user data when you switch between websites. But for now, privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is offering an alternative browser that doesn’t allow the user to track.
On this week’s Gadget Labs podcast, WIRED senior writer Matt Burgess joins the show to talk about how to take control of your surfing.
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