Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
THE SO WHAT
A Tamagotchi-style wearable for Muse is about habituation — training users to treat their AI agent as a persistent companion, not an occasional tool. Expect engagement metrics to shift from “sessions” to “relationship depth,” which will favor products that can plug into long-lived, cross-context agent memories.
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