TBTT #751 - Coming to you live from Meta Connect 2026 in Silicon Valley
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TBTT #751 - Coming to you live from Meta Connect 2026 in Silicon Valley

B1IntermediateSeptember 24, 202658 min
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Stephen and Val are in the US as guests of Meta at Connect 26 at the Menlo Park campus where the company made some major product announcements. Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage for the keynote and unveiled the Meta VR Glasses - a serious Apple Vision competitor at less than a third of the price. Also announced were the Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses Audio - no camera and released at a time when there were privacy concerns about the company's camera glasses. And they also announced an update that can turn Meta glasses into a...

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Well, we happen to be in California again. That's right. Here we are again. Yeah, we're here together at Meta Connect in Palo Alto.

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Well Val, we're together again. You filling in for Trevor. Thank you very much for being here, mate. Well, we happen to be in California again. That's right. Here we are again. Yeah, we're here together at Meta Connect in Palo Alto. Is that where we are? Palo Alto, Menlo Park? Yeah, Menlo Park sort of that sort of Silicon Valley sort of area. Yeah, so we it just worked out that we were in Sydney last week and we knew we're going to be together here this week.

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we thought would bring you the podcast, tell you all about everything that's happening in Meta Connect and all the announcements. So this is funny, you were here for Apple, what, two weeks ago, a week and a half ago? Yeah, it seems like yesterday.

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It really does. The hotel room looks the same and everything. And you're back again. How's your body go with all the travel? You must be a veteran now like traveling. You don't get like you don't get really, I think we find our coping mechanisms. You You know, you have your your coffee and your melatonin and your your sunlight and your melatonin

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