Mark Rabkin
@mrabkin
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VP leading HorizonOS & Quest MR devices @Meta . Expand your world. Into tech and poker and reading stuff.
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Can’t believe how viral this terrible article is. Great data from great sources — and then ridiculous narratives that get
@contradicted
by the next chart one screen down. We need rigor, not zeal. I got mad and wrote this:
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@EricPresidentVR
Y'all spoke, we listened! Better behavior on don/doff muting, better audio quality by using our mic array differently, EQ, and better gain management (including working with devs who were adding more gain than we expected). More to come on this!
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Quest + Wirecutter = ❤️ Quest is probably the most wire cutting product there is. It was shocking how much the vibe changed in VR when you weren't tied to a desk or a console anymore. Take it anywhere. Be anywhere.
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Damn right. It’s far from perfect but we’re trying to ship fixes and improvements every month. Some good ones coming…
The Quest 2 is the most updated consumer hardware I have ever seen since it’s launch.
This thing has had more software updates than any device I have ever seen in 2.5 years.
Gotta respect that.
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exciting news: Quest 2 is back on sale with 128GB of storage, at the old 64GB price — $299. More room for more amazing experiences. See you in Beat Saber!
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This feels so much better, it’s a must-make change for all MR devs!
Just pushed a small update to
@CubismVR
to kick of the year.
On
#MetaQuest3
you can now launch into Cubism without ever leaving MR - no more immersion-breaking black loading screens!
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I hope y'all enjoy -- we pushed hard to put so many top titles in this catalog, and with the +$25 deal it should be such a great value for everyone.
Super excited for so many more people to experience these.
New games catalog + two monthly titles 🔥 📢
Action-packed adventures for just $7.99 USD a month. Buy a yearly subscription for $59.99 USD and get $25 USD store credit. Save money. Game on.
Ends 5/31/24. Terms apply. For full terms visit
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Quest 3 is here, Quest 2 is better!
My top things 🧵:
1/ Super big power upgrade. Best ever graphics for standalone; lots of room for advanced Meta Reality features. Between the GPU/lenses/displays upgrades, A/B tests vs. Quest 2 are pretty stunning.
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I'm excited to share: with new Meta accounts rolling out next month, you won't be required to log in to Quest with Facebook anymore. We designed the new Meta account structure to give people more flexibility and control over their VR experience.
Here's what's changing 👇🏽
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@xoalexo
@NateSilver538
To “run good” a specific poker term that means the way the cards came out has been above expectation. You “run good” or “run bad”. I’m sure it started as bad grammar but now it’s argot.
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Two wks ago returning from Japan (amazing) just got to be Mark watching Mark talking about Quest on Quest. Talk about Peak Meta.
We’re taking entertainment with Quest to the skies! Travel Mode has landed in beta for Quest 2 and 3. Check it. We’re also excited to partner with Lufthansa to bring Quest 3 devices to select business class flights with custom content built for them by .
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Price drop on 3/5 for two Meta Quest headsets! Quest Pro will be ~$999 and the Quest 2 256GB is now ~$429 (the 128GB is still ~$399). We always want to ship devices at a price that makes it easier for people to get into and build for VR.
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Who's getting a Quest? I hope you're getting a Quest! And you're getting a Quest! Everybody should get a Quest!
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Having fun working out in your Quest? Stats or it didn't happen. Now it's easy to track (and prove to your friends) what you did both in Oculus Move and in Apple Health. 💪🏼
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@Heaney555
@StefanGreybeard
@VirtuosoCEO
@UploadVR
@osbfabio
@MetaQuestVR
@boztank
The article is quite accurate. Quest already works offline, but in this instance our login servers had a bug and were returning responses the headset didn’t expect which made the sessions invslid. We’ll work to make it more resilient to this super rare condition.
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@purplemikey
lots of stuff in the works throughout the stack🤞 huge focus for us to improve the whole complex set of interactions with you+hands/screens/room
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@Rengle820
We're looking into this and all the other various mic reports. Hope to have a good update soon.
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The new Meta Quest Pro is finally here! We’re so excited for this device that will be a big leap for empowering people to get into the metaverse more immersively and intuitively.
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IIIITS AALLLLIIIIIVE!!!! One of the best games on Meta Quest, free.
There's already a huge mob of new players coming in, get in there!
POPULATION: ONE is now FREE-TO-PLAY!
🎉Get POP1 today and get 300 in-game gold FREE
💥Graphics Update
💥Map Changes
💥New Features & More
👇 F2P Change-list here 👇
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@EricPresidentVR
One other callout that affects a small number of people: watch out for 3rd party silicone covers with only small gaps around the outer edge. Some of them cover the hidden mics in the vent near bottom center of the front faceplate.
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@joelbasson
@EricPresidentVR
I would absolutely love to do that -- we're asking Apple for the permission for Quest to be an AirPlay receiver. 🤞
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I don't know if I'm ready. Am I ready? 🥶😱😼
An experience 16 years in the making comes to Oculus Quest 2. Strap on and step into Leon’s shoes to rediscover the fears of
#RE4VR
in terrifying VR. Available now:
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@DsaxFilm
@Gwanatu
@TeamBeefVR
We really want it to work with 💯 reliability — but it was not officially supported by Google (we’re working on that too!). In meanwhile improving our infra and narrowing to the options where we can guarantee stability. Investing a lot here.
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@Heaney555
@Azadux
@timpa
@Jioxx1
We have a lot of work going on for better default boundaries (or no boundaries by default for MR apps)!
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@Heaney555
You're right, it shouldn't. We're doing a bunch of things in the next couple of releases to make switching faster, more seamless, and try to get rid of as many of these little frustrations as we can.
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Our last big update of the year — cloud backups, but most excitingly big MR streaming improvements so people can see what’s really going on in Metaverse.
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4/ Don't sleep on the Quest 2 boost. +26% CPU, +19% GPU — that's "next-gen-hardware" type of gain. For devs it'll be quite easy to drive frame rate and resolution, and many are already doing a "remaster" for textures. Will be a really good visual jump! Devs get into it :)
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What a year it's been. For the tireless team. For the VR faithful. For the newcomers. Want to find time to celebrate, but must. keep. going. 🥳😻
On the one-year anniversary of the
@oculus
Quest 2, our VR gaming guru
@Michael_L_Hicks
marvels at just how far the device has come 🕹️🕶️
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amen
Meta continues to bundle the Quest 3's killer app for free with every headset purchase. It's such a great deal the company is including it with every headset through June 30. It's great to see so many people get to experience what I consider the best VR game ever made.
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We're rolling out platform-level parental supervision tools to all Quest headsets and launching a new Parental Education Hub, including a guide to VR parental supervision tools from
@ConnectSafely
to help parents and guardians discuss VR with their teens.
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I collected and summarized sources from last week on the total mortality from COVID. Seems there's big undercounting of deaths in Italy, Spain France -- and thus likely everywhere.
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We’re learning a lot about what y'all want at different price points and we want to be nimble enough to respond to that. In particular, I'm excited to have more people discover the innovative tech of Quest Pro and how it’ll broaden development of magical MR experiences. 2/
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This is so cool. Write a description and be there.
SKYBX - my immersive
#WebXR
experience powered by
@BlockadeLabs
- is now LIVE! 🚀 Explore infinite possibilities and experience stunning AI-generated worlds with simple prompts. Ready to follow your heart to the next destination? Check it out ➡️
Built
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@tina__nigro
@iBrews
@boztank
And it even works when you do ‘advanced’ stuff like: looking out the window 😜
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@Heaney555
We’re gonna keep releasing and upgrading all the stuff every month, not just three days after! Occlusion is obviously helpful in many experiences but not essential as evidenced by the many fun MR things that work quite well without. I think this is the right sequencing.
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What is real? the tech is real
1/n Some really mind blowing technological advancements got lost in the excitement over the Meta name change yesterday. Let's start with lifelike avatars - this is an animated avatar not a video recording...
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Can’t wait to be able to share everything our teams have built on Oct. 11th! Just a few weeks away.
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The issue with Ads Manager has now been resolved. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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Next year you’ll be able to just join any Zoom meeting from your Horizon Workrooms room instead of your official office, den, bedroom, garage, etc. And then draw on the Zoom whiteboard as if it’s on your wall. Get ready to give people VR FOMO!
The future of meetings just became more accessible with
@Zoom
+ Horizon Workrooms for Oculus Quest 2. Early next year, you can join meetings in Horizon Workrooms via Zoom so no one gets left out of the party….errr meeting.
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We’re aware that advertisers are having issues accessing our Ads Manager right now and we’re working to fix the issue as quickly as we can.
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@DennyCloudhead
Pretty much all (or all?) on this list Oculus Publishing partnered on! We’re going hard to bring VR and MR lovers the best stuff. Rest easy: we have a ton of amazing titles on the way, and some LONG investments landing next few years. It won't feel like a slowdown. Peak ahead.
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Welcome welcome to Within and Supernatural to our family. Super excited to deep on new realities for fitness.
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2/ So thin and small, both for headset and controllers (ringless is so good!). Both took so much work and innovation and advanced tech including AI & CV. It just feels so much more approachable now.
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Honor to be a part of the big milestone. Great talking to you
@zachrodgers
!
‘AdExchanger Talks’
#Podcast
Episode 100! With
@Facebook
Ads VP Mark Rabkin (
@mrabkin
) hosted by
@zachrodgers
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3/ Meta Reality will be a big category-bending thing. Most apps will benefit from VR/MR blending, whether it's just during lobbies and menus or for key features or to design the whole new app around ground-up. It feels different from when you put it on.
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Workrooms is one of the best proofs of how the metaverse is already here (in patches) and how it has really unique strengths for people connecting. You gotta check it out.
You asked, we listened! 😌
Horizon Workrooms v1.2 introduces the HIGHLY requested customizable room features which include:
☑️ A wider variety of themes
☑️ Adding your logos & posters to express your teams’ culture & personality
☑️ New stand to make presenting that much better
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@westcoastbill
This is a terrible, terrible hodgepodge of cherry picked data and contradictory claims. So bad.
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@sarahlain12
@CraigSilverman
I’m excited for the superlatives, like «ну, ты перебрекзил» - you overdid it, overstayed your allowable brexiting window.
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👀
Building the beat toward a new music pack drop on 8/31. 😎 G e t h y p e!
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And now you can get way more storage on Quest 2 for less -- might be a good time to load up that flash with the newly free-to-play (starting 3/9) Population: ONE!
/ fin
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We’re raising the price of our Meta Quest 2 headsets so we can continue investing in sustainable ways — and keep driving this industry forward ambitiously for consumers and developers. More details ⇩
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@Heaney555
@the_renatim
@MetaQuestVR
@technogoy
Yeah, we're figuring out how to do that in practice. MR experiences vary and people are starting to flow fluidly between MR/VR, which is tricky. I totally agree that if you're in a mode where you can see all around you, Guardian should be a lot more chill.
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It me — seriously.
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A+++ would ad again
This BBC advertising for Dracula is genius. A series of bloody stakes protruding from a billboard. Seemingly random, until darkness falls and they begin to cast a shadow. Fabulous.
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Good analysis - these holidays were a substantial appetizer for the metaverse, but all the main dishes yet to come!
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@Heaney555
Yeah, you're probably right that we should make both easier to find but not sure about ideal place for it. We're already working on Passthrough toggle improvements. Will talk to the team about casting.
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Welcome to Questy’s!
Welcome to the Metaverse,
@GStephanopoulos
,
@robinroberts
and
@michaelstrahan
!
@kayleehartung
has more on Meta's new
#SuperBowl
ad:
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Quest Pro feels super different in a way that's easy to experience but hard to explain. That's been the reaction of almost everyone who's put the prototypes on (internally of course) over the last year+. Super glad to see folks on the outside feel it too!
Quest Pro’s biggest shift as I keep using it: it really does feel more like “VR glasses,” even if it’s a large headset. The way it rests and looks over the eyes, peripheral vision around it. Like it’s a prototype for that concept
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Works pretty great, and quite extensible. The Meta work shuttle busses have sightings now!
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I just published “Awkward 1:1s: The Art of Getting Honest Feedback”
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What’s the German word for “deep nostalgia mixed with electrifying fear”? Resident Evil 4. Quest 2. Oct 21. Let’s go.
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@Heaney555
@hjbaker_
@boztank
@MetaQuestHelp
Thank you, we’re trying to improve the reliability of downloads. Agree that is very annoying if it gets stuck!
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In other big news, you can now use Instagram, if you want to, to find and coordinate with friends. This was a top request.
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Started reading this - “this is SO stupid”. Read more — “hmmm”. More — “wow this is interesting”. Rare. Now need to think about it.
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@CaseyNewton
This is a pretty standard comment by software engineers 🤷♂️. Heard it a lot! But usually people are polite enough to be like “super good, but weird UI” 😂
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@Heaney555
@boztank
@technogoy
Yeah, we're trying to find the right balance but we may need to tune this more. Do you feel you're in any danger of striking the desk when the guardian pops up? Or do you feel it's certainly in the clear? How much narrower would you make the "annoying zone"?
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@Heaney555
@pvncher
Sorry, just to be clear, what kind of thing exactly are you asking for? identifying QR codes in the scene? Dev provides image and we tell you where in scene it's located?
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This is a great video. A lot of temperature jumping around but the trend is clear. And it does seem slightly wider recently too which means more cold spells.
Animation shows the distribution of annual average temperature anomalies due to global warming from 1850 until today. Well animated climate data. Source:
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Most companies (esp. big ones) need so many more simplifiers. Complexifiers are a dime a dozen. Be a simplifier.
Be a Simplifier! A Simplifier is someone who can take a complex situation and explain it in the easiest way possible for everyone to understand. 🧵(1/3)
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Huge congrats to the teams at
@ArmatureStudio
@RE_Games
@CAPCOMUSA_
and Meta for this epic
#TheGameAwards
win! Gooo RE4!
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This was super fun -- thank you for everything you're doing for the community
@Disco_VR
! Was so interesting to talk about VR for not just gaming but education too.
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@StefanGreybeard
@Egon_the_Dog
@bozoid
The issue is that "passthrough apps" can be any blend from 1% passthrough, 99% VR to the opposite. Or, 100% VR, then a 95% passthrough level/mode, then back to VR. We have more (amazing) hybrid content like than any platform. Working on a scalable solution.
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Huge upgrade to🙌 tracking. Clapping, grasping, gripping hands together, the "steeple", holding objects. The most interesting hand gestures and poses involve a lot of the hand being covered. Hands 2.0 so expressive.
📢 We’re unlocking major improvements to Presence Platform’s Hand Tracking capability. 👏 Check it out 👉
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Our creators have really been wowing us with their imagination and spunk building new and engaging Horizon Worlds. We're excited to do more to support them, so we're announcing a $10M Creator Fund to get our community to the next level! More 👉
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Woot!
For the past week we've been holding our leadership meetings in
#horizonworkrooms
! After the first few days of novelty (and realizing, yes, you can flip off your coworkers! oops 👀) it's turned out to be an incredibly engaging way for remote teams to collaborate.
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This is awesome! The hand gestures look sooo satisfying.
The standalone color passthrough is IMO the most promising direction for MR. I tested for fun some ideas over the weekend, the magic is there and it’s mesmerizing to play with.
Anyone with a Quest PRO who would like to try this?
@MetaQuestVR
#madewithunity
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