Meta is opening up Horizon OS to 3rd events, Asus and Lenovo first with new headsets

Meta has introduced that it is opening up the Horizon OS powering its Oculus headsets to 3rd events. The primary corporations to make use of Horizon OS in new headsets will likely be Asus and Lenovo. The Asus headset will likely be ROG branded and will likely be geared toward avid gamers, whereas Lenovo will “develop combined actuality gadgets for productiveness, studying, and leisure”, in line with the official press launch on the matter.

Meta strongly hints at the truth that these gadgets will likely be utilizing Qualcomm chipsets identical to it did for the Quest 3, whereas in a roundabout way saying it. There may also be a limited-edition “Meta Quest, impressed by Xbox” co-developed by Meta and the Xbox workforce.

The Meta Quest retailer has been renamed Meta Horizon Retailer, to raised align with the identify of the OS. The Meta Quest cellular companion app will likely be renamed Meta Horizon too.

Meta can be “starting the method of eradicating the obstacles between the Meta Horizon Retailer and App Lab”, which lets any developer who meets fundamental technical and content material necessities ship software program on the platform. App Lab titles will quickly reside in a devoted part of the Horizon Retailer.

Meta says it encourages the Google Play 2D app retailer to return to the Horizon OS, “the place it might probably function with the identical financial mannequin it does on different platforms”. Whether or not Google will settle for this invite or not stays to be seen.

Lastly, Meta is creating a brand new spatial app framework that can assist cellular builders “create combined actuality experiences”. They may be capable of “use the instruments they’re already aware of” to deliver their cellular apps to Horizon OS or to create solely new combined actuality apps.

With this announcement, it is fairly clear that Meta desires Horizon OS to be for AR/VR/MR headsets what Home windows is to computer systems and Android is to smartphones – the platform that is open to all {hardware} system makers.

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