Enlarge / Facebook’s Messenger for Kids app is available to children as young as six. (credit: Hakan Nural / Anadolu Agency) Facebook has a demographic problem. Even before investigations revealed that the company’s products were destroying teens’ mental health, interest in its flagship product was dropping off a cliff . Since 2019, teen usage of […]
John Carmack, seen here wearing an early prototype Oculus Rift headset. Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack has been bullish on the idea of “the metaverse” for a long time, as he’ll be among the first to point out. But the id Software co-founder spent a good chunk of his wide-ranging Connect keynote Thursday sounding pretty […]
Enlarge (credit: Meta ) Facebook just won’t stay idle. After announcing on Thursday that Facebook’s parent company will be changing its name to Meta , it seems the tech giant may be planning another big move that it hasn’t even mentioned yet. An image spotted on one of its apps suggests that will the company […]
Enlarge / By next year, you won’t need a Facebook account to log in to your Quest headset. Last year, Facebook started requiring new Oculus Quest users to log in with their personal Facebook accounts rather than a separate Oculus account. Now, in the face of customer backlash and amid Facebook’s metaverse-focused rebranding as Meta, […]