Announcements at Meta Connect, Meta's biggest event of the year, will indicate how Zuckerberg plans to navigate the shift this year of investor fervor to artificial intelligence from augmented and virtual reality technologies. Developers will be watching to assess what apps they might create for Meta's latest hardware devices, such as a new Quest virtual reality headset due out this fall. The Wall Street Journal initially reported the plan to announce generative AI chatbots at Connect. Just before the event, Meta said it was delivering on a plan announced early last year to roll out mobile and web versions of its flagship social VR platform Horizon Worlds. It also quietly added legs to its previously upper-body-only virtual reality avatars, as spotted by industry blog Upload VR.

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Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Katie Paul, Anna Tong, Miral Organizations: Facebook, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Meta, Street Journal, Thomson