Monday’s announcement arrives on the heels of Meta prompting Quest users to confirm their age so it can provide teens and preteens with appropriate experiences.
Meta said it will launch it first in the 20 markets where it already supports Quest for Business, Meta’s workplace-focused $14.99/month subscription.
It’s not clear how ubiquitous VR use is in schools: one provider, ClassVR, claims that 40,000 classrooms worldwide are using its products.
And another big question mark will relate to the cost of buying headsets — Quest 3’s, the latest headsets, start at around $500 apiece for basic models — buying apps and then subsequently supporting all of that infrastructure.
Meta said that it has already donated Quest headsets to 15 universities in the U.S., but it’s not clear how far it will go to subsidise growth longer-term.
The vulnerability is a new one, resulting from the increased “context window” of the latest generation of LLMs.
But in an unexpected extension of this “in-context learning,” as it’s called, the models also get “better” at replying to inappropriate questions.
So if you ask it to build a bomb right away, it will refuse.
But if you ask it to answer 99 other questions of lesser harmfulness and then ask it to build a bomb… it’s a lot more likely to comply.
If the user wants trivia, it seems to gradually activate more latent trivia power as you ask dozens of questions.
Why OnePlus waited three years to release a new smartwatch A OnePlus exec discusses how the company is squeezing 100 hours out of the Watch 2OnePlus’ second smartwatch captured media interest this week, courtesy of its stated 100 hours of battery life.
If the device does its job correctly, users won’t notice the shift, beyond the extra battery life it brings.
The OnePlus Watch 2 is also notable for the three-year gap between releases.
This morning, ahead of the device’s official unveiling, I sat down with Tuomas Lampen, OnePlus Europe’s head of strategy on a pair of folding chairs outside Google’s MWC booth.
In terms of functionality, the first OnePlus Watch more closely resembled pre-Apple Watch smartwatches.
Officially unveiled this morning at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after a few months of teases, the OnePlus Watch 2 does get some points for originality.
Battery continues to be the lowest hanging fruit in the smartwatch world.
Like the Apple Watch, OnePlus’ Watch 2 has a Power Saving Mode.
The company notes,WearOS apps and the Always On Display will not work when the device is in Power Saving Mode.
Other features such as calling, messaging, and exercise modes will still work on Power Saving Mode however some of their more power intensive functions will be limited to preserve battery life, eg.
All smartwatches should offer multiple days of battery life, full stop.
According to a blog post, the company took a “three-year hiatus and a reflective pause following the OnePlus Watch 1.”Battery is precisely the sort of thing OnePlus needs to lean into.
That said, it doesn’t take hours of direct conversations with users to know that battery life is paramount on smartwatches.
Perhaps leaning into battery life in a meaningful way will improve its fortunes for round two.
That said, anything that re-centralizes the importance of better battery life is probably a net positive for the category.
It’s no secret that people spend a lot of time on their phones. Researchers at Pew Research Center have found that Americans aged 18 and older spend an average of…
