Meta One went live today as a paid layer across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI, grouping more than 50 extras that sit on top of the free apps. Plans already collected 15 million subscriptions and trials during earlier tests, and Meta says later waves will reach Edits and AI glasses. Everyday feeds, chats, and basic Meta AI stay free.
Caviar has spent years turning ordinary phones into rolling gold sculptures that draw stares on any street. Now the company has set its sights on Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses and named the result Odyssey. Only twenty-four pairs will ever exist, a number chosen to match the books in Homer’s epic. Each one leaves the workshop with hand-worked metal, black enamel, and a charging case wrapped in genuine alligator leather.
Metroid Prime arrived on the GameCube in 2002 with a first-person view that already set it apart from most games of its time. Players explored alien ruins and fought through creatures while guiding Samus through a living world. A new fan project now carries that perspective into virtual reality on PC with controls that respond to actual body movements.
Meta just launched its own line of smart glasses built with EssilorLuxottica, the same partner behind the popular Ray-Ban Meta models, called Meta Glasses. These new frames skip the big designer branding on the temples and focus instead on lower prices, more style choices, and fit tweaks that should work for more face shapes. The base models start at $299, while a special collaboration with Kylie Jenner costs $399.
Smartglasses seldom stay in style for this long, but the first Ray-Ban Meta model, priced at $247 (was $329), continues to draw those looking for the full experience without breaking the bank. Let’s start with how they look, because that’s the first thing that may turn some people off, but these frames fit just like old Ray-Bans, so if you put them on, no one will notice.
Meta’s price increase for their Quest headsets was announced just yesterday, and begin on April 19th, providing users only a little window of time to buy now and avoid a larger bill for the same hardware. The Quest 3S with 128GB of storage is currently priced at $299.99, but will increase to $349.99 on Sunday, representing a $50 difference.
Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for his staff to communicate with him directly via a highly realistic digital copy of himself. Meta is developing an AI avatar that looks and sounds exactly like him, using a treasure trove of his images, voice recordings, personal habits, and even public remarks. One day, employees across the company’s massive workforce of over 79,000 people will be able to fire off queries, receive responses, and hear words of advice from the founder that sound exactly like the real thing.
Meta purchases a strange, small social network where AIs communicate with one another, and the internet simply shrugs, sort of. Moltbook emerged quietly in late January as an experimental playground for AIs. Consider it a Reddit-style forum, but all of the posters, commentators, and upvoters are AI agents acting on behalf of their human owners. They’re leveraging tools like OpenClaw, which allows models like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok to link with apps like Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp, pass verification, connect via a directory, share user stories, and get stuff done.
The Meta Quest 3S 128GB was released not too long ago, and it is still selling well because people can’t get enough of it. Price is obviously an important consideration here; Meta has kept the Quest 3S reasonably priced, cutting it from $299.99 to $249.99, and if you act quickly, you can get a free $50 Amazon gift card as well with promotion code: QUEST50.
A pair of sunglasses lies on the edge of a desk, their matte black frame catching the last rays of afternoon light that shine through a window. Those frames are the first-generation Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and some will argue that the second generation is more visually appealing, but when you put these on and step out the door, the appeal is more than just superficial, especially when priced at only $263 (down from $329).