{"id":1064684,"date":"2026-07-02T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1064684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:55:13","slug":"meta-has-a-new-app-called-pocket-that-is-absolutely-nothing-like-the-old-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1064684\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta has a new app called Pocket that is absolutely nothing like the old Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media<\/a>, and he\u2019s previously described a vision of how users could use AI to make interactive experiences and share them with people. The launch of Pocket appears to be one manifestation of that idea, and it follows Meta hiring engineers from a company called Atma Sciences Inc., which made an app called Gizmo<\/a>, as Business Insider reported in March<\/a>. Meta got a non-exclusive license to use the company\u2019s technology, and based on screenshots of Pocket on Google Play<\/a>, the app looks to be pretty similar to Gizmo.<\/p>\n

\u201cScroll a feed of gizmos from people around the world,\u201d Meta says in Pocket\u2019s Google Play description. \u201cGizmos respond to your touch and the tilt of your phone. They play sound effects and your favorite songs. They can use your camera or pull in photos from your camera roll. Some can even reason about the world around them.\u201d On a help center page<\/a>, Meta also describes a gizmo as a \u201cplayable AI-generated experience,\u201d and when you post one, Meta says you can choose to let other people remix them.<\/p>\n

However, if you\u2019re in the US, it doesn\u2019t seem like you can download Pocket just yet. Two US-based Verge staffers saw a note on the Google Play listing that said the app \u201cisn\u2019t available in your country.\u201d I can\u2019t find the app on Apple\u2019s US App Store. Meta also notes in its help center that the app is \u201cnot yet available everywhere.\u201d The company didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media, and he\u2019s previously described…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1064685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2062,598,547,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1064684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apps","tag-meta","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116852852368920090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}