Meta Opens up VR Ecosystem, App Store and Horizon OS
Meta is opening up its VR ecosystem. The operating system that powers Meta Quest devices is being opened up to third-party hardware manufacturers, as is the app store. The company wants to give consumers more choice and developers a bigger ecosystem to build for.
The operating system that powers Meta Quest devices, called Meta Horizon OS, is open to other hardware manufacturers. "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 specialized products, all running on a common platform," states Meta. The Meta Quest Store will be renamed the Meta Horizon Store, and the mobile companion app used by Meta Quest owners will be called the Meta Horizon app. Meta Horizon OS devices will use the same mobile companion app that Meta Quest owners currently use.