Meta Expands VR Operating System to Third-Party Hardware Makers

MacRumors— Facebook parent company Meta today announced the upcoming expansion of Meta Horizon OS, a virtual and augmented reality operating system that will be available to third-party hardware manufacturers that want to design their own headsets. Right now, Meta sells the Quest line of headsets, but the company wants to provide the software for third-party VR and AR products in the future, much like Microsoft offers Windows for all manner of third-party PCs. Meta Horizon OS is the mixed reality...

ETtech.com—Quest operating system: Meta opens Quest operating system to third-party device makers. Meta Platforms is sharing its Quest headset's operating system with rival device makers, including Microsoft, for the first time, it said on Monday, as it works to extend its influence over the emerging virtual and mixed reality industry. The move will allow partner companies to build their headsets using Meta Horizon OS, a rebranded operating system that brings capabilities like gesture recognition, passthrough, scene understanding and spatial anchors to the devices that run on it, the company...

TechSpot—Zuckerberg opens up Meta Quest operating system to third-parties, Asus and Lenovo headsets planned. Meta is making the OS that powers its Quest headsets available to third-party hardware. Accompanying the announcement is a re-brand for the operating system with potentially significant policy changes regarding software distribution.Read Entire Article

TechCrunch—Meta opens Quest OS to third-party headset makers, taps Lenovo and Xbox as partners. The mixed reality operating system that powers Meta Quest headsets can officially be used by third-party device makers, the company announced on Monday. Three major tech players — Asus, Lenovo and Microsoft’s Xbox — are the first companies to confirm they’ll be developing new devices that run the software. Now called “Meta Horizon OS,” the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.