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James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision inked a multi-year deal with Meta to make immersive 3D content for the Quest mixed-reality headset. The Immersive Picture: James Cameron has been one of the biggest boosters of 3D in cinema — the Avatar franchise is the only one that still successfully employs the tech — so having his expertise leading the creative at […]
Blumhouse and Meta announced a partnership to test the tech giant’s AI video generation tool, Movie Gen, kicking it off with the release of three short films that were made using it. The Big Picture: Every major AI player is trying to break into Hollywood with a video-creating tool, so whoever gets the biggest buy-in may soon […]
Meta announced some starry updates to its AI chatbots — licensed celebrity voices from A-list Hollywood talent. The Big Picture: It’s not the first time that Meta turned to famous people to give its chatbots some familiar voices. But after the first experiment failed because the celebrities were voicing characters, the tech giant hopes that simply programming the chatbots […]
The Future. WSJ found that ads from brands like Disney, Walmart, Pizza Hut, Bumble, and even WhatsApp itself were served in between videos portraying child sexualization and adult film content on Reels… and users would see this content by simply following youth-oriented accounts. The test shows that the race to catch up with TikTok (and […]
The Future. Meta is pushing for WhatsApp to come out of Facebook and Instagram’s shadows to potentially become the future core app of the company. Although it faces competition from iMessage, Signal, and Telegram, WhatsApp could distinguish itself by becoming the go-to app for the social-media-to-private-community-messaging shakeup — making WhatsApp the Facebook of the 2020s. […]
Meta open sources its AI
Creators fly the coop
Instagram launches a Twitter competitor
The app may be called “Threads."
The combination of Apple’s 2021 data privacy changes and the recent economic contraction has reduced digital ad spending and hurt social media platforms.