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Quest Developers React to Meta Horizon OS & Partner Headset News

Meta’s big announcement this week—that it will allow select partners to build third-party headsets based on Horizon OS—will be felt for years to come. And for developers who get a large chunk of their business from the Quest platform, the stakes are real. We reached out to a range of VR developers, all of which […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

25. April 2024

Pimax Says ‘VR Station’ PC VR Console is Still in Development

Two and a half years ago, Pimax announced VR Station, a compact, console-like computer for running PC VR content that would be wirelessly streamed to its Reality “12K” and Crystal headsets. And while the “12K” still hasn’t shipped (and the Crystal still doesn’t have its wireless streaming add-on), Pimax insists the VR Station is still […]

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Analyst: Vision Pro Demand Fell “sharply beyond expectations,” Leading Apple to Reduce Shipments for International Debut

Independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo maintains Apple may be reducing Vision Pro shipments for its international debut by a wide margin due to demand falling “sharply beyond expectations” in the US market. Kuo, a respected figure in supply chain leaks and analysis, says in and in a new blog post that Apple has cut 2024 shipments for Vision […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

24. April 2024

Analyst: Vision Pro Demand Fell “sharply beyond expectations,” Leading Apple to Reduce Shipments for International Debut

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Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: “Hopefully it isn’t too late”

Meta dropped a major announcement yesterday, saying it plans to allow select partners to build third-party headsets that will run Horizon OS (formerly Quest OS). The news is prompting significant discussion within the XR industry, including from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. Here’s a quick primer for those of you who are newer to XR industry. […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

23. April 2024

Meta Affirms it Will Continue Making Quest Headsets Even as it Offers OS to (select) Third Parties

Meta says that even though third-parties will be making headsets with Quest OS (now called Horizon OS) the company will continue to develop its line of Quest headsets. Meta made a huge announcement today, saying that the Quest operating system, rebranded to Meta Horizon OS, would be the software basis of new headsets built by […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

22. April 2024

Meta Plans to Blur Barriers Between App Lab and Horizon Store, Court Android App Developers

As part of Meta’s huge announcement today, the company says its rebranding the Quest Store to the Meta Horizon Store. In doing so, the company plans to make it easier for developers to get their content onto the platform. As it stands today, the Quest Store only includes apps that Meta has allowed into the […]

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Meta is Opening Quest’s Operating System to Third-party Headsets, Marking a Massive Shift in Strategy

Today Meta made what is likely to be an industry-altering announcement: it plans to open up the Quest operating system to third-party device makers. Asus, Lenovo, and Xbox have been tapped to create new headsets built on the operating system which is being branded ‘Meta Horizon OS’. Meta has just made its biggest strategic move […]

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OpenXR 1.1 Update Shows Industry Consensus on Key Technical Features

OpenXR, the open standard that creates a standardized way for XR hardware and applications to interface, has seen its first major update. OpenXR 1.1 evolves the standard by incorporating new functionality that was important to the industry but previously not standardized. Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims […]

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17. April 2024

Pimax Has Two New Headsets on the Way While Older Promises Remain Unfulfilled

Pimax announced two new PC VR headsets today—both said to be launching this year—but it’s more than a year behind schedule on other products. “Pimax has never been short on ambition, but its execution hasn’t always kept up.” That’s a line from my article published on October 26th, 2021, in which Pimax announced three major […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

16. April 2024