Meta Smart Glasses in Collaboration With Ray-Ban Launched, Allows Hands-Free Livestreaming

Meta Smart Glasses in Collaboration With Ray-Ban Launched, Allows Hands-Free Livestreaming

Meta Smart Glasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban were introduced on Wednesday alongside the Meta Quest 3 and other products. Users can livestream videos to Facebook and Instagram using the smart glasses, hands-free. The frame comes with a 12-megapixel camera sensor and an LED unit. This smart wearable succeeds the Ray-Ban…

Mark Zuckerberg Expands Meta Horizon Worlds From VR Headsets to Smartphones and Web

Mark Zuckerberg Expands Meta Horizon Worlds From VR Headsets to Smartphones and Web

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is gradually expanding the accessibility of the ‘Meta Horizon Worlds’ platform to smartphones from being limited to virtual reality (VR) headsets. Launched in December 2021, Meta Horizon Worlds is a 3D avatar-based social platform for VR that offers metaverse experience to its users. By bringing…

WhatsApp Considers Showing Ads Alongside List of Conversations in Chat Screen: Report

WhatsApp Considers Showing Ads Alongside List of Conversations in Chat Screen: Report

Teams at Meta have been discussing whether to show ads in lists of conversations with contacts on the WhatsApp chat screen, but no final decisions have been made, the report said, citing three people familiar with the matter. Meta is also deliberating whether to charge a subscription fee to use…

WhatsApp Considers Showing Ads Alongside List of Conversations in Chat Screen: Report

WhatsApp Denies Report That It Is Considering Showing Ads on App’s Chat Screen

WhatsApp’s top head on Friday denied a Financial Times report that said the Meta Platforms-owned messaging platform was exploring advertisements as it sought to boost revenue. “This @FT story is false. We aren’t doing this,” WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known…

WhatsApp Channels With Directory Search, Reaction Support Rolling Out to 150 Countries Including India

WhatsApp Channels With Directory Search, Reaction Support Rolling Out to 150 Countries Including India

WhatsApp Channels — the Meta-owned messaging service’s latest feature aimed at increasing engagement on the platform — is rolling out to users in India and several other countries. Designed as a one-way broadcast tool, these channels allow users to share updates with a large number of users on WhatsApp. At…

Meta to Discontinue “Facebook News” Feature in UK, France, Germany: Here’s Why

Meta to Discontinue “Facebook News” Feature in UK, France, Germany: Here’s Why

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it will discontinue the “Facebook News” feature on its social media app in the UK, France and Germany, later this year. Users will still be able to view links to news articles and European news publishers will continue to have access to their Facebook accounts…

WhatsApp Rolls Out New Instant Video Message Toggle for Android, iOS: Here’s How It Works

WhatsApp Rolls Out New Instant Video Message Toggle for Android, iOS: Here’s How It Works

WhatsApp has been spotted rolling out a new toggle for the recently introduced instant video message feature. The messaging platform added the ability to record and send real-time video messages last month. The feature, which allows users to send a short video of up to 60 seconds, is enabled by…

Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time

Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech…

Threads’ Web Version Is Now Live Globally, Confirms Instagram Head

Meta Starts Rolling Out Web Version of Threads to Gain an Edge Over Rival X

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter.  Threads’ users will be able to access the microblogging platform by logging-in to its website…