Meta has introduced its “subsequent step towards our imaginative and prescient for a extra open computing platform for the metaverse.”
The corporate is opening up the working system powering its Meta Quest gadgets to third-party {hardware} makers. This new {hardware} ecosystem will run on Meta Horizon OS, the combined actuality working system that powers our Meta Quest headsets.
From Meta’s announcement: Meta Horizon OS is the results of a decade of labor by Meta to construct a next-generation computing platform. To pioneer standalone headsets, we developed applied sciences like inside-out monitoring, and for extra pure interplay programs and social presence, we developed eye, face, hand, and physique monitoring. For combined actuality, we constructed a full stack of applied sciences for mixing the digital and bodily worlds, together with high-resolution Passthrough, Scene Understanding, and Spatial Anchors. This long-term funding that started on the mobile-first foundations of the Android Open Supply Venture has produced a full combined actuality working system utilized by tens of millions of individuals.
