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The first image of a smartwatch being developed by Meta, formerly Facebook, shows the much-rumored device with a front-facing camera and rounded screen, according to a report by Bloomberg on Thursday. The image was reportedly found inside one of the tech giant’s iPhone apps. The watch in the image features a front-facing camera at the …

Facebook (now rebranded as Meta) has a new VR headset in the works, but it’s not designed as a replacement to the Quest 2. Think of it more as a more expensive, future-forward pro model. At the company’s developer-focused Connect conference, amid broad news of the company’s plans for a cross-device metaverse and next-generation smart glasses (and a name change as …

The Oculus Quest (soon to be Meta Quest) started as a head-mounted game console, but now its parent company Facebook (renamed Meta) is trying to push the platform further by connecting with you across VR headsets, AR headsets, metaverse avatars and in other ways. The timing for the annual VR- and AR-focused Facebook Connect conference couldn’t be worse, with the …

In Facebook’s original presentation of its Project Aria augmented reality camera experiment, the company showed off a thumb clicker for driving the prototype specs. On Thursday, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, revealed a wrist-based neural interface to free your hands from this task. Neural interfaces are one of many ways Meta wants to approach how people control augmented reality headsets. …

Facebook (now renamed Meta) is still trying to make AR-enabled, AI-assisted smart glasses happen. The company announced plans to field-test its camera and sensor-studded Project Aria research glasses in more places, with neural input wristbands, and even in cars. These plans for even more data-hungry glasses were announced during a week where a trove of leaked internal documents has reignited …

This story is part of Making the Metaverse, CNET’s exploration of the next stage in the internet’s evolution. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is about a pizza delivery man by day, VR superhero by night, who lives in an online universe called the Metaverse. “So Hiro’s not actually here at all. He’s in a computer-generated universe that his computer …

The year has gone by in a blink and, throughout it, Facebook’s VR headset remains one of my favorite pieces of tech. As Facebook pushes to reinvent itself, perhaps even rename itself amid recent turmoil, and makes a new wave of AR/VR communication the backbone of a metaverse, the Oculus Quest 2 seems like the little $300 device at the center …

Facebook has instructed its employees to preserve all internal documents and communications since 2016 because governments and regulators have started inquiries into its operations. The move, known as a “legal hold,” comes amid increased scrutiny from regulators, lawmakers and the media over the social network’s potential harms to users. For the past several weeks, the company has been grappling with …

The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into whether Facebook’s own research documents show the social network violated a 2019 settlement over privacy concerns, for which the company paid a $5 billion fine.  FTC officials have begun to look into recently disclosed internal research that outline how much Facebook knew about its platforms’ harms, according to a report Wednesday from …

Twitter’s user base grew 13% in the third quarter as it experimented with features to keep people on its platform. But the microblogging site swung to a loss on a one-time litigation charge even as it appeared to weather changes to Apple’s mobile operating system that have affected other social media companies.    Twitter has focused on creator tools, live …