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Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS

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Meta announced it’s licensing its XR operating system to select OEMs in a bid to become a more open alternative to Vision Pro, marking a monumental shift in the company’s XR strategy. This puts Meta in an entirely new position as a platform holder, as it now seems the company is trying to beat Google at its own game.

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Google Tried To Get Meta To Kowtow To Its Upcoming XR Platform

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Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. We would love to partner with them.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

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Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues.

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VIEW Conference 2018 will host amazing XR talks and workshops

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This is a list of some of the talks that have immediately caught my attention : Google Spotlight Stories team has always been able to create amazing short movies in VR (Image by Google Spotlight). Google Spotlight Stories has always created very interesting immersive content, like the first VR doodle. More details.

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Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More

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Today's news comes just under two months after it was revealed that Google tried to convince Meta to abandon the Quest platform (now Horizon OS) and switch to its upcoming Android XR platform, expected to be announced at Google I/O in three weeks. And if so will it be Meta, or Google? Will this be true for XR too?

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New Estimate Suggests Samsung Approaching 10 Million Gear VRs Sold By 2018

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To our knowledge, Google has released nothing to officially give any indication of Daydream’s performance in the market since it went on sale late last year. Nevertheless, IHS Markit is forecasting sales for both Daydream from Google and Gear VR from Samsung, the latter of which is powered by software from Facebook’s Oculus.

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