Meta Wants To Be The ‘Microsoft of VR’
Facebook’s (aka Meta’s) decision to license its VR gear software to computer makers is excellent. The company desperately wants to own a computing platform.
Meta has already given Asus and Lenovo licenses to use its Horizon OS, and it is also pushing for other app shops to be added to its platform. It’s also making tools that will let app developers port their games, and these will include Meta’s weird metaverse, which still needs to interest everyone. As Alex Heath of the Verge put it, Meta wants to become “the Microsoft of headsets.” The details of ...