Facebook owner Meta prepared on Wednesday to kick off its annual Connect conference at its California headquarters, where it is expected to preview its first augmented reality glasses and announce updates to its existing virtual reality and artificial intelligence products, Reuters’ Katie Paul reports. Among those AI updates is an audio upgrade offering users the option to select a voice for Meta’s ChatGPT-like chatbot, Reuters reported on Monday. The augmented reality reveal is a long time in the making for Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who positioned AR technology as a sort of magnum opus when he first pivoted the world’s biggest social media company toward building immersive “metaverse” systems in 2021.
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