Mark Rabkin
@mrabkin
VP leading HorizonOS & Quest MR devices @Meta. Expand your world. Into tech and poker and reading stuff.
So excited to be joining @openai and contributing to its mission. Thank you @sama for the opportunity- it will be such a privilege to work with such a talented team on one of the most important and ambitious endeavors in history. I’ll remain CEO of @Instacart for the next few…
so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence.
"Every county clerk in the south." This is the most accurate character sketch ever created.
I just gave a GDC talk about what's going on with the Quest Ecosystem and where we think it's going next. If you couldn't make it, don't worry! It's back! In blog form. developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/g…
I think you’re conflating a few things here. OVRPlugin isn’t an OpenXR SDK. It predates OpenXR by many years (much of the spec is based on our original VRAPI), and while recent versions use OpenXR under the hood, its purpose is to expose Meta-specific features to game engines.
There are allegations Meta has been deliberately undermining the @OpenXR standard with their OVRPlugin blocking non-Meta headsets not on PCVR, or if they're not using Oculus Link. I spoke with @VRDesktop's Guy Godin who corroborates the main claims that were originally made in a…
Boom! We cracked it! Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise—supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom. We quietly (har har) demo'd this on XB-1's first supersonic flight—three times actually. 🧵👇
Let's goooo! These limited edition @raybanmeta glasses are 🤩 (not for sale, unfortunately! But I think we'll have more limited edition versions down the road 😉)
Of course that’s your contention. You just heard about DeepSeek two days ago. Just got done watching some 40-minute deep dive—Deirdre Bosa, probably. You’re going to be talking about how this complicates things for the hyperscalers and how NVIDIA stock traded down 15%.
2024 showed us that we are living in an incredible time of technological achievement. We’re going to see more of that in the coming years and here’s why I think 2025 is going to be great. meta.com/blog/quest/boz…