The same The adage says, “hardware is hard.” Such doubles in the metaverse.
Company Meta (née Facebook) has slow down the pursuit of AR glasses. The headset that Meta has aimed for release in 2024, potentially far away year from development practice. Now, those plans appear to be on hold indefinitely. That report comes weeks after Meta admitted that it had burned through more than $10 billion on its metaverse efforts.
It’s not the only piece of hardware that uses Meta’s back burner. Portal — controversial video conferencing device with object-sensing camera track your movements—There will also be limited production. The meta will now stop production The portal is at the consumer level and targets products to business users. The company also reported stop growing a smart watch with a camera that has been in production for a few years. But hey, the guy who came up with the metaverse is now getting into the NFTs, so maybe it’s all still legal.
Lens maker
Phone cameras have become pretty boring. In fact, they have remained essentially unchanged for many years. But the company Metalenz is moving camera technology forward by developing optics that capture more data while lying flat than standard lens elements. Flat optics are easier to stack, which makes for better lenses in a smaller package — so small that a smartphone engineered with Metalenz’s camera technology can eliminate the external bump at back of the phone.
On Thursday, Metalenz announced a partnership with semiconductor company STMicroelectronics to accelerate Metalenz’s entry into the consumer market. The company’s first product to use “supersurface” lens technology is a depth sensor that can be used for smartphone functions that require 3D data, such as low-resolution photos. portrait or face unlock authentication. The same sensor could also provide depth sensing for VR headsets and autonomous robots.
With continued adoption of Metalenz’s technology, these flatter and more robust lenses could become more smartphone-ready camera modules to help you See more clearly the world around you.
Tesla Incident
On Wednesday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will dig deeper into its investigation among Tesla’s Autopilot features after a series of crashes last year. Last August, NHTSA began reviewing 11 crashes since 2018, in which Teslas were on Autopilot. run into the car at emergency sites where first responders are present. The extensive investigation will examine the Tesla vehicles themselves and try to assess whether the autonomous system was entirely at fault or solely human error.
Okay, so I guess when Tesla crashes his car into an ambulance late at night, it gets “investigated,” but when I do I’m “arrested on the spot.” Whatever.
OnePlus 10 Pro has more Pro
When Chinese company OnePlus announced a new phone, it didn’t get the same attention as Samsung’s iPhone or Galaxy phones. However, we tend to prefer the hardware OnePluses (OnesPlus?) here at WIRED. new OnePlus 10 Pro, we gave it 7/10. 256 GB, up from 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage on the original version. The new model, like the old one, runs OnePlus’ own OxygenOS Android 12. Configuring the booster starting at $969 and only available in black.
Xbox Games Without Xbox
It’s time to kiss the console goodbye — if you’ve bought yourself a brand new Samsung smart TV. Microsoft announced Thursday that it will bring Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming to Samsung’s 2022 line of smart TVs on June 30. That’s 100+ Xbox games streamed right to your screen, no control panel needed. Microsoft says it plans to expand to other smart TVs Future.
Xbox Game Pass has erased some of the boundaries between game platforms, allowing anyone to play on consoles and PCs. Although Microsoft seems to want to stick with its hardware, it seems panel dates are numbered.
Stories from a live WWDC
In case you missed it, Apple hosted WWDC . Events this week. During its keynote event (aka an outdoor pre-recorded movie screening) on Monday, Apple laid out its vision for the next versions of iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. It also shows off a few different MacBooks, though clearly one is the kid’s favorite.
This week on Gadget Lab PodcastWIRED product reviewer Brenda Stolyar joined the show to talk about the key takeaways from the event and what it took to be at Apple headquarters.
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