Meta may have canceled a Virtual Reality operating system in which 300 people worked
With the change of the name of the company from Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg wanted to demonstrate the change of interest of the company: it was no longer going to focus on social networks, but rather it was going to promote it to create applications and virtual reality solutions y the metaverse. A few months after the name change, it may have been leaked that they have canceled an ambitious project for an operating system for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in which 300 people worked.
Meta would have suspended the development of a custom operating system that was to be used for the next virtual reality and augmented reality headsets. The Information has released this news today, which states that the cancellation was made in the month of November,
A possible big cancellation of the Meta system
It is true that Meta It has the Android-based operating system used in Quest VR devices, which is convenient for them to use, but makes them dependent on an external agent operating system such as Android. The Information reports that development of the XROS operating system began in 2017 and had more than 300 people working on it.
There is no reason to fear that the cancellation of XROS will affect in the short or long term Meta's plans to produce new augmented reality glasses. At best, it would indicate that they would continue to use an Android-based system for now. XROS development may have stopped shortly after Mark Lucovsky announced that he was leaving to work on a similar project at Google. Lucovsky's resignation came after the former employee of Facebook Frances Haugen will publicly accuse the company of harmful business malpractices in a 60 Minutes interview.
Everything indicates that Meta is still interested in creating its own operating system, which could include a revamped version of XROS. Meta's foray into the metaverses and augmented reality is a very large project with expectations of being one of the great promises of the future of the internet, such as the so-called Web3.
Source: The Verge
