Meta is opening its Quest mixed reality operating system up to third-party hardware makers to create “more choice to consumers and a larger ecosystem for developers to build for”.
“The growth of the mixed reality market and the rising popularity of use cases like gaming, entertainment, fitness, productivity, and social presence have created new opportunities for specialised hardware,” Meta writes. “As we’ve seen with the PC and smartphone industries, consumers are best served by a broad hardware ecosystem producing both general-purpose computing devices and more specialised products, all running on a common platform.”
To that end, Meta says third-party hardware manufacturers will be able to make use of the Meta Quest operating system – now renamed Meta Horizon OS – and the company has announced a number of initial partnerships to create devices with “specific use cases”. ASUS Republic of Gamers, for instance, is creating an “all-new performance gaming headset”, while Lenovo is developing “mixed reality devices for productivity, learning, and entertainment”.
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