Meta’s Quest headsets and app retailer have been round for some time, however with a software program expertise largely restricted to 3D and AR apps and video games. However now, the corporate says it’s opening issues up — Horizon OS and Quest VP Mark Rabkin mentioned throughout Meta Join that from in the present day, the Meta app retailer “absolutely welcomes 2D and spatial apps.”
Meta additionally says it helps internet apps, and what are you aware? The New York Instances’ Wordle app for Quest headsets, which we wrote about final week, is a Progressive Net App.
The corporate’s app retailer, till now, has been closely curated, with a single experimental part referred to as App Lab. However in the present day’s announcement seems like the corporate bringing its app retailer strategy extra according to one thing like a Google or Apple on-line market, encouraging builders to carry extra smartphone- or tablet-style apps to its VR platform. (Meta says App Lab is not any extra.)
Meta additionally says Quest customers can now place apps wherever they need, change their dimension, and use as much as six of them on the similar time. Customers may also be capable of open a 2D app whereas they’re in an immersive VR app, as nicely. Each are main options of Apple’s visionOS.
Perhaps Meta thinks that Apple was onto one thing when it rolled out the Imaginative and prescient Professional with years of iPad and iPhone apps supported out of the gate.
