Just a few days after announcing a price drop for its Meta Quest 2, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, took to his Instagram account to announce something very big: Lenovo, Microsoft and ASUS become the first the partners by launching a new series of virtual or mixed reality devices that will arrive soon.
At the start of the year, Mark Zuckerberg made no secret of his intentions to become the “Android” of virtual reality glasses against Apple’s mixed reality glasses with its Vision Pro. Meta requires years of progress and development to form a very well-balanced system and devices in terms of specifications and price, and being the “Android” of virtual or mixed reality; the dream always desired by the CEO of the company.
From his Instagram account you can see the announcement made in video by Zuckerberg himself and how he explains it. in each era of computing There are open or closed models. With mobile phones, Apple won with a closed system that blocks the user from everything they can do. But it doesn’t have to be this way: in the PC era, the open model has won out to give the user more freedom when it comes to software or hardware.
He Meta’s goal is an open model that will define the next era of computing with mixed or virtual reality glasses, new devices and a metaverse with its new the partners such as Microsoft, ASUS and Lenovo who will soon launch new products for entertainment, productivity, gaming, exercise and much more.
Meta working on Horizon OS for 10 years to make it more open and easier to integrate with other systems. The ecosystem it has is very extensive, and this movement ensures the arrival of new companies who will want to partner as well as third-party developers who want to launch new experiences.
The keys to Meta Horizon OS It’s the feeling of being truly physically present in online meetings with others, wherever you are, by bringing digital objects such as giant screens into the space you are in, navigating and interacting in virtual worlds and helping new developers with their applications.
Now works with Lenovo, ASUS ROG and Xbox to create new use cases as a new lightweight device that allows you to improve experiences at work or even at home, or even enjoy multimedia content such as series or films as if your living room were a huge cinema. A version of Xbox with Game Pass and its controls to start the games you want simply wherever you are with virtual or mixed reality glasses.
Mark Zuckerberg mentioned, with a new Meta blog entry, which will take a few years for these products to be launched, but it is a new chapter that opens before Meta and the new experiences to come with partners who launch devices with Meta Horizon OS.
