"Last April, the tech giant announced that it would be opening up Meta Horizon OS to third-party headset makers. At the time, the company said that Asus, Microsoft's Xbox, and Lenovo, were all working on creating new hardware that would run the company's software. "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," the company said at the time."
"In September, at the company's Connect event, a Meta spokesperson said that Meta was still working with its business partners to push Horizon OS into more devices. Horizon OS was designed to deliver "mixed reality experiences," and to communicate "social presence" through technologies like hand, body, eye, and face tracking. It launched in the days when Mark Zuckerberg still maintained that the metaverse was the "future" of his company."
Meta paused its program to share Meta Horizon OS with third-party device makers to concentrate on first-party hardware and software development. The pause aims to advance the VR market through world-class first-party products, with plans to revisit third-party partnerships as the category evolves. Earlier, Meta announced opening Horizon OS to partners including Asus, Microsoft's Xbox, and Lenovo to foster a broad hardware ecosystem running on a common platform. Updates were scarce after the announcement; in September Meta said it was still working with partners to expand Horizon OS. Horizon OS targets mixed reality experiences and social presence through hand, body, eye, and face tracking.
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