A look inside Meta’s Reality Labs, with demos of its neural input wristband, 3D audio, photorealistic avatars with Codec Avatars 2.0, and 3D object scanning (Scott Stein/CNET)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries  —  Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it’s been teasing for the past year.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Meta AI researchers unveil Encodec, a neural network trained to compress audio at a ~10x rate compared with the MP3 format at 64Kbps, without a loss in quality  —  Technique could allow high-quality calls and music on low-quality connections.  —  Last week, Meta announced …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more  —  Meta’s new high-end headset introduces eye tracking and mixed reality for $1,499 … The first thing I notice with the Meta Quest Pro is the fit.

Emma Roth / The Verge:
A Facebook user shares a video of an alleged “Meta Quest Pro” VR headset, claiming Meta left the device, labeled “engineering sample”, in a hotel room  —  A prototype of Meta’s VR headset has surfaced  —  Images and, later, a video of a “Meta Quest Pro” virtual reality …

Steven Musil / CNET:
Google discontinues Google Translate in mainland China, one of the last remaining services the company provides in the country, citing “low usage”  —  The service was one of Google’s last remaining offerings in the country.  —  Steven Musil  —  Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News.

David Lumb / CNET:
As climate change threatens data centers, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are tinkering with cooling options and building data centers in colder countries  —  Data centers run our personal and professional lives, so it’s crucial that they keep working in a future of climate change.