The Oculus Quest 3 and the mystery Project Cambria virtual reality headsets are still a ways off, but Meta is said to be reorganising its software, which might have an effect on these impending gadgets.
An all-encompassing virtual reality and augmented reality operating system called XROS has been disbanded by the business previously known as Facebook, according to The Information (via The Verge).
According to reports, Meta’s former staff was in the hundreds, making this a huge reorganisation. Those team members are said to have gone on to work on augmented reality glasses and other projects inside the corporation.
Extremely fine-tuned options
No official confirmation was given of disbandment, but Meta said it wants to “speed up development of solutions that are hyper-tuned for each product line” – implying that there won’t be any unifying OS in the near future.
Whether this means a totally new software platform will be included in the Oculus Quest 3 or the higher-end Project Cambria headset is unclear, but it seems reasonable to assume.
For the time being, Meta seems to be sticking with Android as the operating system for the Quest 2. One thing is for certain: future devices will no longer have the Oculus brand name, since everything will be branded as Meta instead.
The future of AR/VR is still a mystery, according to this analysis.
Now that it’s simple to set up (and doesn’t need a computer), and there are a slew of fun games to play with it, virtual reality has finally entered the mainstream with the Oculus Quest 2.
Adding computer images to the actual environment is a relatively new concept known as augmented reality. Virtual reality, on the other hand, is more widely available, but so far we haven’t seen a lot of intriguing applications for it.
XR, or mixed reality, is a term used to describe the merging of virtual and augmented reality. Other firms are expected to follow Apple’s lead and develop similar software and hardware.
Meta’s internal reorganisation shows that there’s a lot of ambiguity about what AR and VR have to offer, both independently and when they’re used together. A really appealing mixed reality gadget may yet be some time away.