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Meta AI has been available on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the US for over a year, and the company has now expanded the intelligent assistant to its latest virtual reality headset, Quest 3, via experimental mode. Meta will soon push an update to the Horizon OS, which will enable Meta AI with Vision on the company’s latest VR headset.
Meta also introduced its most capable open-source AI model—Llama 3.1, a 405 billion-parameter large language model with support for multimodality. The company has expanded the availability of the latest model across its products such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, which can now edit images and also create personal avatars.
With the addition of Meta AI, the company will be deprecating existing voice commands.
According to the company, Meta AI with Vision on the Quest 3 will at first be available in passthrough, which will enable experiences like asking questions about the surroundings while wearing the headset. These features will initially be limited to the US and Canada. The company has confirmed that these features will not come to the Quest 2 VR headset.
There are multiple use cases of Meta AI on the Quest 3 VR headset, which include asking for advice on fashion, or asking for “quotes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and explain the significance of the same”. Users can also make use of Meta AI on the Quest 3 even while playing video games such as Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR.
Quest 3 is Meta’s latest mainstream VR headset, priced at $499.99, and has features like high-fidelity passthrough. The headset is powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 SoC, which can handle high-fidelity VR gaming. The Quest 3 is not officially available in India. However, it can be bought from e-commerce platforms like Amazon for around Rs 48,000.
