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Meta is Opening Quest’s Operating System to Third-party Headsets, Marking a Massive Shift in Strategy

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Today the company says it’s formally branding the Quest operating system as Meta Horizon OS, and with it, plans to allow third-parties to make new headsets that run the software stack. The post Meta is Opening Quest’s Operating System to Third-party Headsets, Marking a Massive Shift in Strategy appeared first on Road to VR.

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

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Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS, and opening it up to third-party headset makers. They'll have access to the same core software and platform services as Meta Quest headsets, including Meta's tracking and mixed reality technology and store.

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XR Talks: Behind Facebook’s Spatial Strategy

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Speaking of full-stack, Facebook is notably building out hardware, software, operating system, and even silicon. This episode made a disclaimer that its intention is to focus on only Facebook’s spatial computing moves and strategies, rather than other matters surrounding Facebook such as privacy reform and content enforcement policies.

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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That’s essentially the strategy the company has decided to take with Xbox at least, with Xbox Game Studio head Matt Booty saying in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview that VR just isn’t big enough yet. Whenever Microsoft chooses to compete in consumer XR, any potential failure can’t be blamed on the lack of resources.

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Augmenting the Impact of Virtual Reality with a Robust Testing Strategy

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Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Robust Testing Strategy for Virtual Reality Apps Despite their challenges, there are many platforms and tools for the development of virtual reality applications. Still, there is a general lack of standardized and adequate testing strategies for reality-based applications.

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Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: “Hopefully it isn’t too late”

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So that brings us to this week’s Horizon OS news ; the biggest move that Meta has made with its XR strategy in years. ” Gear VR was the first Oculus headset made by a third-party And the company did in fact pursue that strategy. The headset’s software platform, however, was made by Oculus.

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Intel Announces Expansion to AI PC Dev Program, Aims to Reach More Software & Hardware Devs

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Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Notably, this is both a software and a hardware play.

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