Meta's Muse AI agent is cute (sometimes caked-up) and it performs well as a productivity tool. And, if you give it access to your social media and e-mail, it can know basically everything about you. This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes and David Imel give their reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's demos at Wednesday's Meta Connect keynote. They also talk about the new glasses hardware, including the new VR glasses and audio-only, camera-free Ray-Bans.
Then, we take a look at the newly-announced, chimeric Chrome/Android hybrid Googlebooks, find out why Brendan Carr is a dummy this week, analyze the Paramount merger, discuss what YouTube's A/B video testing means for the increasingly tenuous concept of a shared reality, and end on a surprisingly heartwarming story about RODECaster 4K support.
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00:00 Intro
00:39 Vergecast Welcome Back
01:24 Meta Connect Muse Takes Over
02:14 Trying Muse vs Privacy Fears
06:20 Pervert Glasses Debate
08:35 Phones Dont Have Light
13:31 Passive Surveillance Reality
16:19 Is Muse Actually A Hit
19:21 Muse Charm And Post Phone
22:15 What Would You Use It For
27:42 Meta Connect Hardware Roundup
27:59 Audio Only Ray Ban Glasses
30:17 Are The Demos Still Bad
32:12 Muse Makes Glasses Matter
32:42 Trust and Camera Concerns
33:44 Hearing Aid Angle
35:56 VR Glasses Return
37:43 Better Than Vision Pro
40:21 Holograms and Scanning Questions
42:53 Gaussian Spla
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