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Zuck briefly teases that the next generation of Meta will be the “open model” like PCs were vs Macs. If I’m understanding that correctly, he’s implying the Quest OS will be available to other VR hardware. Perhaps even open source?

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I think he's referring to the fact that you can sideload apps as well as run most most smartphone Android apps on the Quest, and also use it as a PC headset.

I think you are reading too far into that comment. It's probably about them using Android as a base OS. I doubt they have any plan to make their proprietary parts available to other manufacturers and honestly I don't know if it would make much sense because everything is very optimized for each specific headsets. They have different sensors, camera positions and other technical capabilities, it's very different than mobile phones.

Maybe. Although from a strategic standpoint, it seems to make more sense to be the next Windows or Android for this type of platform to reduce the surface area they need to compete on for both OS and hardware, which Apple does masterfully.

If they were to help standardize the headset hardware requirements and necessary configurations for their OS, I could see it happening.

Don't they already use Android as a base OS?

Yes, that's my point...

Yes, all Quests are android based. You can even sideload apks!

He just meant he would look away if you copy Quest OS with a few floppies and share your serial with your friends.

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