Meta is speaking to {hardware} corporations about constructing new VR units, mentioned the report (Representational)
Meta Platforms determined towards a partnership with Alphabet to make use of Google’s Android XR platform for its digital and mixed-reality Quest headsets, The Data reported on Friday.
Google had advised that Meta partnered with its new software program platform that’s being developed for digital actuality, augmented actuality and mixed-reality headsets, the report mentioned, citing a supply concerned within the talks.
However such a partnership might thwart Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to “personal the subsequent computational platform for AR, VR and combined actuality,” in line with the report.
Meta is already speaking to {hardware} corporations, together with South Korea’s LG Electronics, about constructing new VR units utilizing Quest’s software program, the report mentioned, quoting unnamed Meta workers.
Meta and LG Electronics didn’t reply to Reuters request for remark, whereas Alphabet declined to remark.
Meta’s Quest units at present run on an open-source model of Google’s Android working system, the report mentioned.
Apple launched its combined actuality headset Imaginative and prescient Professional final month.
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