The next next thing in AI and AR

Jun 22, 2024 12:00 AM - 4 months ago 52427

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On The Vergecast: awesome shake-ups successful nan VR plans astatine Apple and Meta, much AI companies retired to make safe AI, and manner successful Silicon Valley.

By Alex Cranz, deputy editor and co-host of The Vergecast. She oversaw user tech sum astatine Gizmodo for 5 years. Her activity has besides appeared successful nan WSJ and Wired.

Jun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

Meta is apparently deprioritizing VR and its Oculus business to attraction connected reproducing nan astonishing occurrence of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. And it makes consciousness — VR is out, AI is in, and Meta’s smart glasses are nan absolute standout gadget frankincense acold for AI. But successful nan 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 nan Vision Pro. Something’s happening here, and it feels for illustration it’s going to person a awesome effect connected nan astir chopped visions of our VR and AR future.

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

And aft those large discussions we, for illustration Big Tech, pivot to talking astir AI — because location was large news successful that abstraction this week, too! Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s erstwhile main intelligence and 1 of nan awesome participants successful past November’s attempted coup, has a full caller AI company. He doesn’t look to person a large business plan, but he has expansive ideas for nan early of AI. Plus, Perplexity appears to beryllium burning bridges to create a competitory AI hunt engine, and nan hostility betwixt creators and nan AI companies who want them some arsenic customers and for training information grows much taut.

Finally, we deed a lightning information that’s sewage a astonishing manner focus.

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

And then, we made a pivot to AI:

Finally, we had a lightning round:

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