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  "id": 2377429,
  "title": "Meta Launches Pocket App That Lets You Create and Share Games",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/meta-launches-pocket-app-that-lets-you-create-and-share-games",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-21T12:25:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ProPakistani",
    "slug": "propakistani",
    "url": "https://propakistani.pk/2026/08/21/meta-launches-pocket-app-that-lets-you-create-and-share-games/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Meta has expanded its experimental AI-driven gaming app, Pocket, to all users in the United States. The user-friendly tool empowers individuals to generate miniature interactive games using straightforward AI prompts and disseminate them via a scannable feed. Pocket's broader U.S. release represents Meta's ongoing commitment to making AI-powered creation tools accessible to a wider audience.\n\nCreating games within Pocket involves articulating desired creations through AI prompts. The app then translates these instructions into interactive experiences and games, known as \"gizmos.\" These creations can react to touch, phone movement or tilt, and include sound effects as well as clips from users' favorite tunes. Users can augment their gizmos with images from their device's camera roll or enable the games to utilize their phone's camera. Once developed, these gizmos can be posted to a user's profile where others can save, repost, or remix them into novel creations.\n\nPocket is rooted in technology and concepts from Gizmo, an interactive coding platform previously developed by Atma Sciences. Meta acquired the Gizmo team via an acqui-hire earlier this year. Gizmo previously enabled users to create games, puzzles, memes, and other interactive experiences through prompts, and share them on a public feed. With the wider launch of Pocket, Meta is discontinuing the original Gizmo app.\n\nThis launch of Pocket marks another phase in Meta's increasing push towards AI-enabled creative tools. The company has already ventured into AI-generated images via Meta AI app, AI-generated video via the standalone Vibes app, and has introduced several standalone apps recently including Instagram Instants, Forum, and Seller. Additionally, Meta explored AI-generated bedtime stories and introduced a Mac version of its Meta AI app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed that AI-assisted software development is simplifying the process for the company to construct and launch new apps. During Meta's July earnings call, Zuckerberg stated that the company anticipates it will become significantly easier to release new apps and intends to test more concepts while leveraging its recommendation systems to aid in their growth. Pocket now joins this expanding roster of experimental Meta apps, with the company betting that AI can streamline the process of creating interactive games as straightforward as writing a prompt.",
  "summary": "Meta is rolling out its experimental AI-powered gaming app, Pocket, to everyone in the United States. The app allows users … Read More The post Meta Launches Pocket App That Lets You Create and Share Games appeared first on ProPakistani .",
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