Meta's new social media app swaps photos and reels for your own AI-generated video games
(Image credit: Meta) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter While everyone was debating the new Instagram logo, Meta quietly dropped an entirely new…
(Image credit: Meta) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter While everyone was debating the new Instagram logo, Meta quietly dropped an entirely new social media app called Pocket and it leans even harder into AI. Where Instagram has posts and reels, Pocket delivers a feed of 'gizmos' – AI-generated mini games and digital toys that users can generate and then share via the app.Vibe coding has taken off big time in the past year. While the open-source game engine Godot banned AI coding in an attempt to protect the sanity of its maintainers, Pocket aims to tap into the trend and allow anyone to quickly generate a basic game using a text prompt. Meta's Pocket is available in the US (Image credit: Meta / Future)Meta briefly tested Pocket in Brazil last month and has now launched the app via the iOS App Store and Android Play Store in the US. Its users aren't going to be creating GTA VI, but they can generate small quizzes, puzzles and mini challenges without having to know code or learn the best game development software.Latest Videos FromCreative BloqWatch full video here: The name 'gizmo' gives a good idea of the level of sophistication the games have. They can make use of gestures like taps, swipes and phone movement as well as camera and audio input.After a user generates a game, they can save it and share it via the app. That's where the Instagram-like social mechanic kicks in. Users can scroll through a feed of other people's generations. They can play them but also repost them and remix them.The word 'gizmo' was inherited from a previous AI mini-game app of the same name developed by Atma Sciences. Meta licensed the technology and hired the company's team. Pocket's generative AI is powered by Meta’s Muse Spark model.Meta's taken a leaf out of Google's playbook in releasing a wave of experimental projects in recent months. It also has Forum, an app built around Facebook Groups designed as a Reddit-style discussion platform, the Snapchat-inspired Instants, which works both as part of Instagram and as a standalone app, Seller for Meta marketplace sellers and Vibe for AI video generation.Get the Creative Bloq NewsletterSign up to Creative Bloq's daily newsletter, which brings you the latest news and inspiration from the worlds of art, design and technology.Like these, Pocket is experimental for now as the company susses out interest, apparently now opting for lower-stakes projects after some questionable investments in the past. This is the company that renamed itself after a product that never really materialised and now think that people will want to wear its 'pervert glasses'. OpenAI also had a go at launching a generative AI social media app in the form of Sora for video. It lasted six months. Joe FoleyFreelance journalist and editorJoe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango. View More You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. Logout LATEST ARTICLES 1 Elevate your workspace with up to 30% off floating shelves 2 KPop Demon Hunters might have to change its name 3 Swifties calm down, not everything is a Taylor Swift Easter egg 4 I tested the new Galaxy Z Fold8 in a camera phone shootout against the Z Fold8 Ultra 5 XPPen Artist Ultra 14 review: an OLED drawing tablet that's surprisingly portable and funSource: Creative Bloq AI Art — Published — Category: Image AI