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You can upload raw claim and get the paid amount immediately compared with contract rate mean at payer, state or metropolitan level. Nothing can be better than this to learn what you are paying compared to what others are paying. Deerhold Ltd. Deerhold Ltd. 15,030 followers 15,030 followers 1d • 1 day ago HR and benefits professionals are in full swing planning for the 2025 plan year, negotiating final proposals from payers or benefits consultants, considering direct contracts with providers and determining employee plan designs. Employers and advisors recognize how critically important this time of year is and the fiduciary responsibilities C-level executives are tasked with (or task their consulting partners with) in fully evaluating several coverage options. The Payer MRFs made available via the Transparency in Coverage Rule now make it possible for internal and external employer teams to perform these types of evaluations across a broader range of payers and networks, very quickly and at a fraction of the cost. Want to see how? Today's Transparency Tuesday provides a quick overview of how through the use of a small claim file (no PHI needed), Deerhold quickly performs these types of evaluations for our customers. https://lnkd.in/eMdtgUCm If you're going through this evaluation process now and want to ensure you're assessing coverage options fully, contact Pete Titas or Scott MacEwen to provide an overview of our Contract Rate Explorer product and evaluation process. hashtag #MRFInsights hashtag #PriceTransparency hashtag #PayerMRF Claims Upload & Summary

💡“New technologies don’t just come into the world ready to go…you have to pay for the 10 wrong paths you took before you get to the 11th one that does work.” - Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO. Dive into the interview by Matthew Ball (author, investor, and advisor known for his expertise in the Metaverse and digital media. )on the Metaverse, VR/AR, AI, and the future of tech! 🌐📈 📈 Key Takeaways: • Path to 100MM Annual Headset Sales: Success hinges on creating compelling content, reducing device costs, and improving accessibility and comfort, addressing factors like motion sickness, weight, and ease of use. • Spending on Reality Labs: Meta has invested heavily in Reality Labs, with expenditures reaching $10 billion annually, emphasizing that these are investments in building future technology and ecosystems. • Role of AI: AI is critical for enhancing user interaction, creating immersive content, and personalizing experiences. AI developments have accelerated Meta’s roadmap, offering new possibilities for device functionality and user engagement. Overall, the interview highlights Meta’s commitment to making VR/MR technology more accessible and affordable, contrasting with Apple’s focus on delivering premium, high-end experiences. Both companies are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in VR/MR, but their strategies and priorities differ significantly. Additionally, Meta places a strong emphasis on privacy and societal comfort, recognizing the importance of technology fitting harmoniously into our lives and addressing privacy concerns while advancing innovation. #technology #innovation #future #metaverse #spatialcomputing #digitaltransformation #mixedreality #linkedin #artificialintelligence https://lnkd.in/dwHs-iMa

You can upload raw claim and get the paid amount immediately compared with contract rate mean at payer, state or metropolitan level. Nothing can be better than this to learn what you are paying compared to what others are paying. Deerhold Ltd. Deerhold Ltd. 15,030 followers 15,030 followers 1d • 1 day ago HR and benefits professionals are in full swing planning for the 2025 plan year, negotiating final proposals from payers or benefits consultants, considering direct contracts with providers and determining employee plan designs. Employers and advisors recognize how critically important this time of year is and the fiduciary responsibilities C-level executives are tasked with (or task their consulting partners with) in fully evaluating several coverage options. The Payer MRFs made available via the Transparency in Coverage Rule now make it possible for internal and external employer teams to perform these types of evaluations across a broader range of payers and networks, very quickly and at a fraction of the cost. Want to see how? Today's Transparency Tuesday provides a quick overview of how through the use of a small claim file (no PHI needed), Deerhold quickly performs these types of evaluations for our customers. https://lnkd.in/eMdtgUCm If you're going through this evaluation process now and want to ensure you're assessing coverage options fully, contact Pete Titas or Scott MacEwen to provide an overview of our Contract Rate Explorer product and evaluation process. hashtag #MRFInsights hashtag #PriceTransparency hashtag #PayerMRF Claims Upload & Summary

Very interesting interview by Matthew Ball with Andrew Bosworth about AI, XR, and the metaverse. These are some key takeaways for me: - Meta (Facebook at that time) was not much interested in PCVR, because "a peripheral for PC" was not an interesting product for such a big company. They wanted to create a platform - In 7 years, we still won't see the headset of our dreams, but we'll still see headsets that optimize a feature over others. Quoting Boz himself: "in seven years we are not going to be free of these fundamental trade-offs of weight, cost, and performance, etc. Really it's pick one and a half of these three. It's not even choose two." - Meta will give camera access to developers when people feel comfortable seeing other people having a headset around them without feeling spied on - Meta now sees "a path" toward AR glasses, but it's long and complicated. Anyway they now have internal technologies that 10 years ago would have looked impossible - Meta is very interested in AI tools that help creators easily craft content for immersive social platforms like Horizon. There are many other interesting points, but for me, these have been the main ones. What's your take on them? #VirtualReality #metaverse #ArtificialIntelligence #Meta #technology

That's a lot of lost cheese... #Meta’s ambitious plans to develop the metaverse is still costing the company #billions of dollars a quarter. As part of the company’s #secondquarter #earnings report on Wednesday, Meta’s #RealityLabs unit, which houses augmented and virtual reality technologies, recorded an operating loss of $4.48 billion. Analysts polled by #StreetAccount were expecting a loss of $4.55 billion. Since late 2020, the Reality Labs unit has generated cumulative losses of about $50 billion, underscoring CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s massive investments into the hardware and software that underpins what he says will be the next era of personal computing. https://lnkd.in/gtAtVbAy

That's a lot of lost cheese... #Meta’s ambitious plans to develop the metaverse is still costing the company #billions of dollars a quarter. As part of the company’s #secondquarter #earnings report on Wednesday, Meta’s #RealityLabs unit, which houses augmented and virtual reality technologies, recorded an operating loss of $4.48 billion. Analysts polled by #StreetAccount were expecting a loss of $4.55 billion. Since late 2020, the Reality Labs unit has generated cumulative losses of about $50 billion, underscoring CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s massive investments into the hardware and software that underpins what he says will be the next era of personal computing. https://lnkd.in/g6iHruMd

The Metaverse is Dead. VR Headsets Are Failing. The metaverse was supposed to be the next big revolution in how we interact with the digital world, but the truth is starting to surface: the majority of people don’t need it, at least, not in the way it was promised. While a minority of professionals in specialized fields may benefit from VR headsets in their work, the reality is that most users are just addicted to their phones. VR headsets, like the Meta Quest, are failing to capture a broad, sustainable audience. It’s clear that Meta’s pivot to AI signals the death of the metaverse as we once imagined it. Here is a screenshot of what’s now becoming an annual tradition: The Meta Horizon app, required to set up a new Meta Quest headset, being #1 in the app store on Dec. 26th. This might look like a success, but it’s just a temporary bump in the road, not the breakthrough Meta was hoping for. 📉 Why the Metaverse is Struggling: ℹ️ Limited Use Cases: Only a small percentage of users need VR for work-related tasks. ℹ️ Phone Addiction: Most people are more comfortable on their phones than strapping on a VR headset. ℹ️ Lack of Appeal: VR and the metaverse haven’t been able to reach mainstream audiences, and products like Apple Vision Pro have fallen short of expectations. ℹ️ Meta's Pivot: The future is shifting toward AI, not virtual worlds. 💡 Challenges Ahead: Sure, the technology is improving, and consumers and enterprises are still making strides. But the adoption rate is slow, and the barriers to entry remain high. As much as we want it to be, this shift in how we interact with technology won’t be immediate, and it won’t be easy. The evolution in how we engage with tech will only be fully understood in hindsight. But right now, we can see that the straight line to mass adoption is still miles away, and it might never come. #Metaverse #VRHeadsets #TechShift #AI #Innovation #AppleVisionPro #Meta #VirtualReality #ConsumerTech #FutureOfTech #TechTrends #UserExperience #Retention #Technology #TechRevolution #DigitalTransformation #AIvsVR

From CNBC: When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision of a digital future of work and recreation accessible through a virtual reality headset. As the rebranding to Meta approaches its third anniversary, none of that stuff has gone mainstream. But the company appears to have found its footing in virtual and augmented reality through a different medium. After achieving surprise early success in the smart glasses market through a partnership with Ray-Ban, Meta is ginning up excitement for the prototype of a much more advanced pair of glasses called Orion, a project nearly a decade in the making. Zuckerberg’s reveal of Orion late last month has triggered a level of enthusiasm that’s unfamiliar in the #metaverse. For Meta, the uptick in excitement among employees and users comes well after Wall Street jumped back into the stock. After the company lost almost two-thirds of its value in 2022 and then slashed about a quarter of its workforce, or 21,000 jobs, Meta’s stock price almost tripled last year and is up more than 60% in 2024, reaching a fresh high this month. Meta proved the resilience of its dominant online #advertising business, rebuilding the underlying technology after Apple’s iOS privacy change made it harder to target users, and adding generative artificial intelligence tools to make it easier for brands to run campaigns. But proving that it can mimic its digital ad success in a totally different market has been a persistent challenge. Facebook’s initial foray into VR came in 2014 with the $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR. Since then, the company has poured more than $63 billion into what’s now called Reality Labs, its AR and VR hardware and software division, and it’s recording operating losses in the billions of dollars per quarter. In the second quarter, Reality Labs generated just $353 million in revenue, accounting for less than 1% of the company’s total sales. Industrywide, global shipments of #VR and #AR headsets in the period sank roughly 28% from a year earlier to 1.1 million units, according to market researcher IDC. “This is a very long-term bet,” Zuckerberg said in July 2023. “At a deep level, I understand the discomfort that a lot of investors have with it because it’s just outside of the model of I think even most long-term investors.” Meta is likely years away from being able to deliver a consumer version of Orion and has numerous challenges to overcome to reach mass production. In the meantime, Meta is looking to build on the success of its second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Released in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the product featured a number of upgrades, including better camera quality, improved battery life and an #AI voice assistant. The smart glasses went viral on TikTok, and sales exceeded both companies’ expectations. More than 730,000 units have been sold in their first three quarters, according to IDC.

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In this interview Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, discusses the evolution of Meta's Metaverse strategy and Reality Labs division. He outlines three key epochs: the initial PC-attached VR era, the transition to standalone devices, and the current mixed reality era marked by Quest 3's launch. He identifies content, price, and accessibility as the main barriers to achieving $100 million annual VR/MR headset sales. He emphasizes the significant investment required to develop new technologies, including supply chains and manufacturing processes. Looking ahead 7-10 years, Bosworth envisions improvements in resolution (aiming for 50-60 pixels per degree), field of view, and overall user experience. He stresses the importance of standalone devices without wires and the need to balance various features against cost and value. He highlights the tangible momentum felt within Meta following Quest 3's launch and the increased software development velocity now that the base platform is established. He views Meta's expenditures in this area as investments in future technology, acknowledging the need to explore multiple paths before finding successful solutions. Erwan Moysan Alexandre Embry Alex Bulat- van den Wildenberg Jérôme Coignard #arvr #techradar #immersivetech https://lnkd.in/et7PDx_2