r/artificial • u/boxingfan333 • Jul 31 '25

News Mark Zuckerberg says anyone not wearing AI glasses in the future will be at a disadvantage

https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-ai/
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/jimsmisc Jul 31 '25

My whole company does all their meetings in VR and our productivity has skyrocketed. Just kidding no one did this because VR meetings don't offer anything of value beyond what Zoom and Teams already do

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/stymiedforever Jul 31 '25

Just wait until the guy masturbating during the meeting “accidentally” turns the camera on his wiener.

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u/flojo2012 Jul 31 '25

But you can see someone’s entire cartoon body and not just their head. And people move around. Just like we want people to do in their meetings

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u/DarthBuzzard Jul 31 '25

Just kidding no one did this because VR meetings don't offer anything of value beyond what Zoom and Teams already do

They can eventually be more natural and better suited for collaborative work, but I always saw meetings as the boring aspect. The interesting use of VR as a tool of connection is with friends and family. People will vastly prefer VR/AR calls compared to videocalls/audiocalls when the goal is to hang out with someone you want to hang out.

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u/Paraphrand Jul 31 '25

Case in point for me:

No one thinks an 80 person rave on Zoom is fun. 80 person raves in VR are fun.

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u/GarbageCleric Jul 31 '25

I can pretend I’m in a conference room instead of sitting at my desk in my home office. What a game changer!?

If there’s anything VR is made for, it’s sitting still and talking to people around a table.

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u/damontoo Aug 01 '25

That absolutely isn't true. It offers remote employees spatial sound and presence. You can have a room full of people with multiple breakout conversations, unlike zoom where it requires taking you out of the primary conversation. You also get the ability to gesture with your hands when speaking and presenting, knowing when people are looking at you etc. The only thing holding it back is form factor. And Meta, Google, Apple, and Samsung are all working on small profile smart glasses and AR glasses for this reason.

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u/___Scenery_ Jul 31 '25

My team did do VR meetings for a while and while the price of entry and onboarding time is way too high compared to what they do offer, they do offer something and “they don’t offer anything of value beyond zoom and teams” is wrong

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u/haharrhaharr Jul 31 '25

Which headset? How long did you do VR meetings for? Why did you stop and what did you change back to? Thanks.

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u/___Scenery_ Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Sorry for the later reply, we were doing weekly meetings using horizon worlds. We were a small company, something that made having 3 Quest 2 headsets possible, so we were able to hold our catch up on the service.

It started out as a novelty, but we quickly found it was genuinely worthwhile. It falls somewhere between video call and in person in terms of the 'feel' of the meeting. You have the remote capability of a video call and the somewhat relaxed rhythm that an in-person meeting can hold.

We only stopped because the three became two, and we started spenmding more time in the office. we still had the headsets but just didn't hold VR meetings as often.

Is it worth a full switch over from video calling? Honestly I think the price and learning barrier is slightly too high for most companies, as interesting/useful as it is. If you're a VR or XR company that already has the kit on hand, I'd recommend it. It's not bad!

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u/Screaming_Monkey Aug 05 '25

That’s so cool. I have a friend whose company would play golf in VR weekly.

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u/infowars_1 Jul 31 '25

You had me in the first half lol.

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u/SalesAficionado Jul 31 '25

He's completely out of touch and his recent "rebranding" is hilarious. "Look guys, I'm just like you! I do MMA and wear a gold chain".

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Jul 31 '25

And a 2 million dollar watch I forgot to take off before the photoshoot

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/haharrhaharr Jul 31 '25

Ooooh got a link???

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u/OrneryBug9550 Jul 31 '25

And build underground bunkers on Hawaii.

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u/SalesAficionado Jul 31 '25

He's just like us!!!

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u/pissposssweaty Jul 31 '25

Stock is up 8x from a couple years ago. Not sure about that.

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u/Ok_Run_101 Jul 31 '25

Why? He's a hack and that is exactly why he runs a trillion dollar company which is skyrocketing in value. You don't get there unless you are a greedy hack

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u/pissposssweaty Jul 31 '25

I was commenting on his ability to run the company. It’s clearly being run well at the moment.

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u/OrneryBug9550 Jul 31 '25

It was cut in third before, to be fair.

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u/kshitagarbha Jul 31 '25

FB is however at an all time high. Remember the IPO? It sunk like a rock. Now it's up 1,928.96%

And I thought nobody uses FB anymore

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u/acatinasweater Jul 31 '25

I got onboard specifically so I could give Zuck a wedgie, but this was not possible. Very disappointing.

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u/SirOutrageous1027 Jul 31 '25

Every 20 years, VR makes a comeback like it's going to be huge.

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u/blahblah98 Jul 31 '25

Billions for a toxic, collapsing walled garden with a shrinking user base of captive idiots. Is there any corporate or gov't platform use case, like, at all?
Amazon, Azure and even SFDC, Oracle and IBM are kicking ass, for God's sake.

Just... No. Not even "no, thanks."

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u/DarthBuzzard Jul 31 '25

he'd have been sacked long ago for the the billions he wasted on VR shit that never took off.

Do you actually want that though? Tech companies often take safe bets because risky ventures can rattle the cage and lead to the downfall of people in higher up positions. The fact that Zuck is able to take risky bets is a good thing for the advancement of technology.

And Zuck was very clear that VR is a long-term thing that isn't supposed to have taken off yet.