Meta Denies Canceling VR OS Project

The Information, formerly Facebook Meta, is expected to power upcoming virtual and augmented reality sets, though its exact rationale and future plans are still unclear. a custom operating system reported that it stopped production; Named after XR, an umbrella term for AR/VR (Virtual Reality), the project, named XROS, had allegedly been suspended in November.

If this development were true, it would mean that Meta would depend on the Android-based operating system used in Quest (formerly Oculus) VR devices, and hence another company. However, Meta sent this news to The Verge in an e-mail from The Information. denied.

“We are not stopping our reality OS creation operations”

XROS, which started to be developed with a team of more than 300 people in 2017; apparently Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth have already mentioned “reality operating system” also means the same. Zuckerberg, on this subject in June 2021, will talk to Meta. every layer of hardware a tight control over “microkernel based operating system” He talked about his plans.

The Informaiton reported that development of XROS was allegedly halted shortly after team leader Mark Lucovsky, formerly from Microsoft, announced that he was leaving to work on a similar AR OS project at Google. Speaking to The Information, Lucovsky told the company of former Facebook employee Frances Haugen. harmful business practicesIn addition to the accusations he made regarding the issue, he noted that he quit because the company started to adopt a metaverse-oriented approach.

However, Meta officially denied The Information’s report in a statement emailed to The Verge by communications manager Sheeva Slovan. In the statement, “Our reality operating system creation operations we don’t stop or downsize” Slovan, using the expressions “The team keeps moving forward and our vision of the metaverse “We continue to invest in future computing platforms, such as AR glasses and wearables, to help make things happen.” recorded as.