Um, Casey, anything, anything else happened for you this week outside of Metta?

Oh, there's something else happened for me.

Um, me and my people should have done.

Okay, so, no, nothing else happened for you this week.

Just Metta, your life is Metta.

I'm Kevin Russe, I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer and you're listening to HardFour.

And this week, my life really was Metta specifically what I like to call Metta's annual talent show.

So we're going to talk about that, the future of the gig economy, and then a truly wild

week in artificial intelligence.

So, last week we talked with Kashmir Hill about her experience in Metta's Metaverse app,

Horizon Worlds.

And this week, we learned a lot more about how Metta's bet on the Metaverse, this billions

of dollars and thousands of employees that have been assigned to take us into the next

age of computing.

We learned how that's going.

So Casey, what did we learn this week at MetaConnect?

Yeah, so once a year now, Meta throws a big annual conference where they show off their

progress in this $10 billion project.

And we learned a couple of things.

One is that they are releasing a new high-end standalone VR headset called the Metaquest

Pro.

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