During Meta’s Connect conference on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar lifted each leg in the air, then did a jump, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air.

It may have all been for show. According to UploadVR editor Ian Hamilton, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said that the “the segment featured animations created from motion capture,” meant to “enable this preview of what’s to come.” To me that reads like what we saw wasn’t actually a demo of what Horizon’s legs will look like, but rather an artist’s interpretation of what Horizon’s legs may end up looking like.

Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic. Because, really, this was easy to see coming. My co-worker Jay Peters even warned that the pre-recorded video wasn’t necessarily an accurate representation in his coverage of the announcement. Still, if Meta really is trying to say that its presentation didn’t feature any footage of what legs will actually look like as interpreted by your Quest headset, that’s slightly worrying. This feature is supposed to be coming soon, but we can’t see it yet? How am I supposed to know if I should spend $1,500 on a Quest Pro if I can’t be sure that it’ll let me have my virtual avatar jump up onto the boardroom table and do a dance during a virtual meeting?

I guess we’ll just

This story is part of Amazon Prime DayCNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals.

Amazon is previewing some of the best deals coming during its second Prime Day sale today ahead of its official Oct. 11 start date. The Prime Early Access Sale promises “hundreds of thousands” of deals, exclusively available to Amazon Prime members, over a 48-hour period to kick off the fall shopping season. Now, Amazon is giving us an early look at some of the deals we can expect to see during the event with savings across tech, toys, beauty, fashion, everyday essentials and more.

Upcoming Prime Early Access Sale offers

• Save 80% on the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series 55-inch 4K Smart TV with hands-free Alexa and save 70% on Hisense 50-inch U6 Series 4K Quantum Dot QLED Fire TV
• Save up to 55% on select Echo devices and Fire tablet bundles
• Save up to 50% on select headphones, earbuds, and speakers from Bose, Sonyand JBL
• Save up to 50% on select electric toothbrushes from Oral-B and Philips Sonicare
• Save up to 50% on select Hasbro toys
• Save up to 45% on select vacuums from Shark and iRobot
• Save up to 40% on select power tools from brands like BLACK+DECKER, BOSCH, DEWALT, and GEARWRENCH
• Save 40% on select products from Keurig
• Save up to 40% on select Ninja products
• Save up to 40% on select Vitamix blenders
• Save up to 40% on select Barbie dolls

This story is part of Amazon Prime DayCNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals.

Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale deals are in full swing already, including up to 59% off a bunch of its best hardware. Amazon recently hosted an event in which it announced a bunch of new devices like Fire TVs, the Kindle Scribe and more, but they are not yet available. If you’re looking to get your hands on some Amazon devices like the Echo, Fire TV, Ring doorbell and more, now is your chance to save big.

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With this sale you can get some of the year’s best prices on Amazon’s Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Echo hardware and much more.

The sale spans a lot of devices, so you’re going to want to take a few minutes and sort through them all to see which ones you may be most interested in. As we learned during its event, Amazon will be bringing some of its new features, like Eero support, to older devices like the 4th-Gen Echo Dot, making these discounts even better. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite deals from the sale below, so be sure to check them out now.

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If you’re looking to take the first step in equipping your home with smart devices and appliances, this is a deal you won’t want to miss. The second-gen Echo Show 5 is a compact smart display that allows you to easily