In the first days of this year, Meta announced that it had stopped its operating system project for AR and VR devices. According to the new information, the company has placed the employees it has assigned for this job in different departments.
The related leak is that Meta has recently placed team members of over 300 people working on long-running XROS into new departments. One part of the team will head the company’s AR glasses department, while the other part will work on devices for future Quest headsets.
Information from Meta on the subject confirms this: “We’re always improving our team structures to help us bring great products to market fast. By incorporating more OS engineers directly into our AR and VR teams, we’re working through each product line. We can accelerate the development of hyper-tuned solutions for
In short, it is once again confirmed that Meta does not work on its own operating system for new AR and VR devices. This shows that the company will continue to use an Android-based operating system on its devices.