Meta Just Became the Android of VR
by Skillet
Skillet— Hot on the heels of its biggest competition in the Apple Vision Pro, Meta has announced that it’s going to be fighting Apple using a tried-and-true strategy. In a move similar to Android or Windows, Meta's Horizon OS is being made available to third parties.
TechRadar—Meta’s massive OS announcement is more exciting than a Meta Quest 4 reveal, and VR will never be the same again. The surprise Meta Horizon OS announcement sets it up as VR’s Windows – and that’s both a great and terrible thing.
TechSpot—Google just removed RISC-V support from the Android kernel. A series of recently merged patches removed support for the "riscv64" processor architecture from the Android Common Kernel's codebase. Android Common Kernel (ACK) are the main branches of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which informs all third-party and Google's own Android implementations on mobile and wearable devices. Removing RISC-VRead Entire Article
Ars Technica—Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app. It sounds like the company is now blocking access from "bootleg" APKs.