https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-connect-2026-date-announcement/

Linux folks are used to having to roll many of their own solutions, and better Linux desktop usability is a goal of the WayVR project, which aims to provide desktop control and app launching from within a VR session.

VR applications can already stream from Linux to standalone headsets with projects like WiVRn, but what WayVR does is let one launch programs and access desktop screens within VR. Put another way, instead of the headset being limited to acting as a pseudo-monitor that only receives the output of an already-running VR application, the headset and controllers can now be used to interact with one’s computer as if one were physically sitting at it. Controls and user interface are highly flexible and help users to do anything they need — including clicking, typing, and launching applications. It’s a considerable step forward for convenience and general usability.

https://github.com/wayvr-org/wayvr

In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them to review disturbing and sensitive footage captured by its Ray-Ban AI glasses.

Some reported seeing wearers naked or using the toilet. Another saw a man’s wife undressing in their bedroom, after he left the glasses on a table, the joint investigation found. Other footage they reviewed included entire “sex scenes.”

“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” one employee told the Swedish newspapers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

It seems their hunch was correct.

Two months after the worker’s allegations were published in the newspapers, Meta responded in highly questionable fashion. It terminated its entire contract with the Kenyan company, Sama, the BBC reports — a decision that a Kenyan worker’s organization alleges was in retaliation to the workers speaking out.

Say no to a ‘camera on your face’, says Meta smart glasses riva
https://www.ft.com/content/30390769-2dc1-4573-8d2e-2e8359b2ee39

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/meta-layoffs-ai-executives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.GoAa.Bb73ytbBTorE

Charles Rollet / Business Insider:
Leaked memo: Meta’s Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native “pods” focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization’s leadership structure — – A large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully “AI-native.”

Inside Meta’s push to turn employees into ‘AI builders’ and reorganize teams around small pods
https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-reality-labs-shifts-to-ai-native-pods-efficiency-2026-3

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Meta is rebranding some employees as “AI builders” and organizing them into AI-native “pods,” according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider.

The memo described an overhaul of roles, titles, and team structures across a 1,000-employee team within Meta’s Reality Labs. It’s part of a broader, aggressive push by Meta to adopt small teams and use AI.

The pilot program was announced last month within the Reality Labs team that builds developer tools. Everyone in the division will now have one of three titles: AI Builder, AI Pod Lead, or AI Org Lead. That’s to encourage a shift toward a flatter organization, a structure that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has advocated.

Actually, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t burn $80 billion on the metaverse
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-80-billion-loss-ai-2026-3

Nearly five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg told us the future was the metaverse — an idea that seemed to involve all of us strapping on virtual reality goggles and interacting with digital versions of ourselves.

Now, reports say Zuckerberg’s Meta is bailing on the metaverse after losing more than $80 billion on the project.