Meta's mixed reality hardware and AI glasses have reached a new level of quality and accessibility, accelerating the development of the metaverse.
Smart glasses offer a truly AI-native device and are the most suitable form factor for AI assistants, according to Meta's Chief Research Scientist Michael Abrash.
Meta Quest 3 continues to improve with every update, and the recent launch of Quest 3S is expected to bring more people into mixed reality for the first time.
Younger people are gravitating towards social and competitive multiplayer games, indicating a trend towards the growing importance of the social experience in the metaverse.
Meta is funding developers to build new apps and games to attract new users and increase the quality of their immersive experiences.
The use of mixed reality to watch videos while multitasking in their homes has grown fast across the whole Quest 3 family, revealing the potential for new kinds of social entertainment experiences in the metaverse.
Meta plans to build Horizon OS into a new kind of general-purpose computing platform that can support any kind of software, user, creator, and developer.
The next big step will be combining AI glasses with the kind of true augmented reality experience demonstrated by Orion, which offers a glimpse into the future.
The most important thing when inventing the future is to ship things and learn from real people's use of them.
2025 is predicted to be the most important year in the history of Reality Labs because of the acceleration in development of the metaverse.