06/01 – Meta Front-Runs The Quest 3

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam bride Home for Thursday, June 1st, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.6	Zuck tried to front-run the Apple headset announcement this morning.
0:12.3	Amazon paid some fines. Apple is testing. the Apple headset announcement this morning.
0:12.6	Amazon paid some fines.
0:14.2	Apple is testing two new high-end Macs.
0:16.4	Microsoft actually seems to be struggling when it comes to game development.
0:21.0	And what happens to your crypto project if you can't get in touch with the
0:23.8	one person in the project who has control of the keys. Here's what you miss today in the
0:27.9	world of tech.
0:30.3	So it seems like old Zuck thought it was important to be sort of like those
0:36.2	posters on message boards that only want to be first, right? First in the
0:41.2	comments. After a countdown on his Instagram account overnight, Zuckerberg posted a tease of the $490
0:49.2	$999 Quest 3 XR headset, the one Mark Grumman got the hands-on with recently. More details about
0:55.9	the headset are coming September 27th at a special event. This was just a tease, but the
0:59.8	point is, Zuck got the headlines before Apple's own special event next week, quoting the entirety
1:06.3	of the Instagram post.
1:08.3	Introducing MetaQuest 3, the first mainstream headset with high-res color mixed reality.
1:13.4	40% thinner and more comfortable, better displays and resolution.
1:16.8	Next Gen Qualcomm Chipset with 2X the graphics performance,
1:21.1	our most powerful headset yet coming this fall.
1:24.0	Starting at $490.3 will be the best way to experience mixed and virtual reality in a standalone device.
1:30.5	It'll be compatible with Quest 2's entire library with more titles coming.
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