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Meta’s Quest Gaming Showcase 2 Is Scheduled For June 1st

The 40-minute VR gaming event will be streamed live on Facebook, YouTube, Horizon Worlds, and Twitch.

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2 years ago

May 2, 2023

meta's quest gaming showcase 2 is scheduled for june 1st

Meta has announced a date of June 1st for its now annual Quest Gaming Showcase. The 40-minute event will take place at 1PM Eastern time and will be streamed live across Facebook, YouTube, Horizon Worlds, and Twitch.

Viewers can expect to see new games and gameplay footage being revealed, along with a pre-show (13:45 ET) featuring debut trailers and title updates. After the main event, Meta will host a “deep-dive” talk with game developers.

The Quest Gaming Showcase comes at an important time for Mark Zuckerberg’s company as it attempts to pivot to the Metaverse. The social media giant recently purchased Within, creators of the VR fitness game Supernatural, and has lowered the price of its Quest Pro device to $999 to encourage adoption.

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Despite these aggressive strategies, the company’s Reality Labs unit is still losing billions of dollars annually, so the event will be vital to keep sales of VR headsets flowing.

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Google Releases Veo 2 AI Video Tool To MENA Users

The state-of-the-art video generation model is now available in Gemini, offering realistic AI-generated videos with better physics, motion, and detail.

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2 days ago

April 16, 2025

Nour Nasir

Google

Starting today, users of Gemini Advanced in the MENA region — and globally — can tap into Veo 2, Google’s next-generation video model.

Originally unveiled in 2024, Veo 2 has now been fully integrated into Gemini, supporting multiple languages including Arabic and English. The rollout now brings Google’s most advanced video AI directly into the hands of everyday users.

Veo 2 builds on the foundations of its predecessor with a more sophisticated understanding of the physical world. It’s designed to produce high-fidelity video content with cinematic detail, realistic motion, and greater visual consistency across a wide range of subjects and styles. Whether recreating natural landscapes, human interactions, or stylized environments, the model is capable of interpreting and translating written prompts into eight-second 720p videos that feel almost handcrafted.

Users can generate content directly through the Gemini platform — either via the web or mobile apps. The experience is pretty straightforward: users enter a text-based prompt, and Veo 2 returns a video in 16:9 landscape format, delivered as an MP4 file. These aren’t just generic clips — they can reflect creative, abstract, or highly specific scenarios, making the tool especially useful for content creators, marketers, or anyone experimenting with visual storytelling.

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To ensure transparency, each video is embedded with SynthID — a digital watermark developed by Google’s DeepMind. The watermark is invisible to the human eye but persists across editing, compression, and sharing. It identifies the video as AI-generated, addressing concerns around misinformation and media authenticity.

While Veo 2 is still in its early phases of public rollout, the technology is part of a broader push by Google to democratize advanced AI tools. With text-to-image, code generation, and now video creation integrated into Gemini, Google is positioning the platform as a full-spectrum creative assistant.

Access to Veo 2 starts today and will continue expanding in the coming weeks. Interested users can try it out at gemini.google.com or through the Gemini app on Android and iOS.