2024 Submission 10

Timestamp: 3/08/2024 08:31:00 AM

SG: Technical Community

Submission: 'The VR headset OS cold war'

Links: - while Microsoft's Hololens runs on Windows, and the recently introduced Apple's Vision Pro runs on visionOS, both proprietary OS's, in 2022 Meta's Oculus abandoned XROS in favor of forking Android's Open Source Project (AOSP) for it's Quest headsets. In 2023 Google announced a deal with Samsung, for which it was building its own AOSP fork - Android XR. Meta declined Google's offer to 'contribute', as that would have them playing second fiddle. Meta has a good library of established 3D content, which could enhance Android XR's takeup. Meanwhile, Google has declined to make Google Play's 2D library available for Quest. Meta recently announced a deal with LG. Thus the stage is set for an old fashioned 3 way OS war between Meta, Google and Apple. Apple, notably, is yet to implement the OpenXR API standard.

https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-rejected-google-android-xr-partnership-request/

Issue Areas: Emerging Technologies