Meta`s own internally-developed one-size-fits-all OS has reportedly been canceled.
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Meta has reportedly ceased development on its own combined AR/VR internal operating system project, dubbed XROS.
The report says that hundreds of employees had been working on the OS for years, bringing Meta`s development strategy into question.
The Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 currently run Android, and it`s likely future Quest headsets will also continue to run Google`s OS.
For years now, Meta has been hard at work on its own operating system, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg regularly citing it as the way forward for the company as it continues to delve into the AR and VR space. Now, according to a report by The Information, via Ars Technica, Meta has decided that a fully in-house operating system for the Oculus Quest 2 and future AR glasses is not actually the best way forward.
According to the report, Meta had `hundreds of employees` working on the new XROS, as it was called, bu...
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