Meta has hit the brakes on its plans to open up the operating system that powers its Quest headsets to third-party manufacturers. First announced last year alongside the Horizon OS rebrand, the ...

Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to ...

Meta has slammed the brakes on its third-party VR headset scheme, effectively killing Horizon OS devices from Asus and Lenovo. The social media giant says it has merely “paused” the programme, but the ...

Last year, Meta introduced Horizon OS, its new branding for Meta Quest OS. The plan was to license Horizon OS to hardware partners, with ASUS and Lenovo initially confirmed as two. Meta now says those ...

The move reflects Meta’s strategy to prioritise scale through mobile rather than niche VR social adoption Reality Labs is “right-sizing” spending while continuing to back VR hardware development The ...

Meta is introducing a new frame timing system, FrameSync, to Horizon OS on Quest headsets, aiming to deliver smoother visuals, fewer stale frames, and lower motion-to-photon latency. The update ...

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