TNW 334: Meta Goes Open With XR - Reddit Mods, Rabbit R1, Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
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Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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Jason Howell is filling in for Mikah Sargent as Mikah is out! Emily Dreibelbis chatted with one of the moderators of r/ChatGPT on Reddit. The Rabbit R1 AI companion device recently had its launch party, and first impressions are coming out for the wearable device. Meta opens its Quest Horizon OS to developers. And AI finally arrives in the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
- Emily Dreibelbis of PCMag spoke with a moderator of one of the more popular subreddits on Reddit, r/ChatGPT, about their experience moderating a subreddit of that size and popularity.
- Jason Howell talks about the Rabbit R1 AI companion device and how more wearable devices are being developed with AI in them.
- Scott Stein of CNET joins the show to discuss Meta's opening its Quest Horizon OS to other developers and Meta's possible goals for allowing third-party developers access to this operating system.
- Finally, Victoria Song of The Verge stops by to talk with Jason about the Ray-Ban rolling out multimodal AI to its smart glasses.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Emily Dreibelbis
Guests: Scott Stein and Victoria Song
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on Tech News Weekly, it's me, Jason Howell. Hi, I'm back filling in for Micah |
| 0:05.5 | Sergeant while he's out this week and having a great time. It's been the first half of the show talking |
| 0:10.6 | with Emily Dry Belbus from PC mag. |
| 0:13.2 | We have a couple of really great discussions. |
| 0:15.1 | One, she wrote an article about the Reddit, |
| 0:18.2 | the Sub-reddit chat GPT. |
| 0:20.1 | She spoke with the moderator and the person who created that |
| 0:23.0 | subreddit. We have a really interesting discussion about what it takes to do that |
| 0:28.0 | for free on such a popular subreddit. That's fascinating. We also talk about the Rabbit R1 launch |
| 0:36.1 | event that happened earlier this week and whether these AI devices can really |
| 0:41.0 | deliver on the promises that they're putting out there. |
| 0:44.0 | Then I speak with Scott Stein from CNET. |
| 0:47.0 | Scott joins to talk about a meta announcement, |
| 0:50.0 | Meta's Horizon OS, where they're opening up their XR, their AR and |
| 0:54.6 | VR operating system for third parties to create specialized hardware around, |
| 1:00.7 | really neat to see that happening. |
| 1:02.3 | It's almost like Android, but for around really |
| 1:03.8 | Android, and then finally we round things out by talking with Victoria song from the VR-O-S |
| 1:06.0 | Really cool and then finally we round things out by talking with Victoria song from the |
| 1:10.5 | Verge about the meta-ray bands and how they just got multimodal support. |
| 1:17.4 | And it actually sounds like they do it a pretty great job at delivering on the promises there. |
| 1:23.3 | All that more coming up next on Tech News Weekly. |
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