Meta just made a very smart move that could change the game for consumer VR. Its virtual reality OS is now available for other manufacturers to use, and that means headsets are already on the way from big names including Asus, Lenovo and Microsoft. In what could be bad news for Sony, whose PSVR 2 is struggling to set the world on fire, one of those headsets will be a performance gaming headset under Asus's Republic of Gamers brand.
The newly renamed operating system, Meta Horizon OS, was announced on the official Meta blog. In addition to the RoG headset it also explained that Lenovo will "draw on its experience co-designing Oculus Rift S" as well as its laptop experience "to develop mixed reaity devices for productivity, learning and entertainment" and that Meta is working with the Xbox team "to create a limited-edition Meta Quest, inspired by Xbox."
