Meta Halts Development of In-House AR and VR Operating System as Launch of Apple Headset Approaches

[mrr]

I just can’t imagine that there’s much of a market for these.

 

[ahhh]

That's the beta version of Data from Star Trek Next Generation.

 

[Jeremy Mathers]

Apple going to stop VR/AR development too. It was always a dead-end technology. The kind of people that believe in it also think cryptocurrency is a valid technology.

what are you talking about? VR Porn changed my life.

 

[AtomicC]

Enjoy, if you haven't had the chance so far...

 

[WhoDaKat]

Hmm, I wonder which platform is going to win. The one that took 4 years to develop it’s own OS or the one that’s just going to use forked Android. It’s like other companies aren’t paying attention.

 

[michelb76]

Apple going to stop VR/AR development too. It was always a dead-end technology. The kind of people that believe in it also think cryptocurrency is a valid technology.

That must be why it has been in use for years in industrial setups. You should get some better stuff to smoke.

 

[michelb76]

META employees probably did not know what they were doing. They were probably clueless and weren't getting anywhere with the AR/VR technology. They gave up.

Are you dense? Meta is **** company, but some of the best coders in the world work there. They just did the same thing Apple did when they were looking for an OS for the iPhone.

 

[wanha]

Apple going to stop VR/AR development too. It was always a dead-end technology. The kind of people that believe in it also think cryptocurrency is a valid technology.

The certainty with which you say this... priceless ?

 

[wanha]

This doesn't add up.

So Facebook rebrands itself Meta and then just over 2 months later, they kill the OS that was supposed to underpin the Metaverse?

I get that creating OSes from scratch is damn hard (remember Apple's attempts at a new OS before the NEXT acquisition? Yikes.), but this just seems odd.

 

[8KYUP]

who else ISN'T excited for this?
I just don't feel the giddyness that I used to get when we see tech previews in consumer tech shows. The metaverse just feels so nerdy and stupid to me. I want tech to enhance my life, not replace it. The phone is getting bad enough already. I don't feel happier in social media, I feel less happy.

I don't know. Maybe I'm getting old.

Current VR offers a lot that all users will like. Have you checked out VR yet? Multitask with multiple monitors over an actual or VR environment. Add monitors at will. Adjust monitor size, select curvature, reposition to taste. Browse with your fingers or via a connected bluetooth keyboard and mouse or by voice command and soon by eye motion. Move freely in your environment with on demand passthrough. Use this once and you will see the future of computing. What is a 2, 3, 5 monitor system going to cost? Can you use it on a plane? Can you use it on a forklift, a jobsite, on the can? Laying in bed? The work desk is a thing of the past. The real question is what place will our other devices have?

 

[madebybela]

I hope Apple's marketing team is smart enough to know that if they even utter the word "metaverse" in a keynote it will be absolute cringe

 

[scotty321]

I’m sure that Apple‘s headset will be as successful as the HomePod. ???

 

[Taipan]

Current VR offers a lot that all users will like. Have you checked out VR yet? Multitask with multiple monitors over an actual or VR environment. Add monitors at will. Adjust monitor size, select curvature, reposition to taste. Browse with your fingers or via a connected bluetooth keyboard and mouse or by voice command and soon by eye motion. Move freely in your environment with on demand passthrough. Use this once and you will see the future of computing. What is a 2, 3, 5 monitor system going to cost? Can you use it on a plane? Can you use it on a forklift, a jobsite, on the can? Laying in bed? The work desk is a thing of the past. The real question is what place will our other devices have?

That seems very strange to me. If we have a complete field of vision to fill with info, why would we restrict it by placing it on virtual rectangles? If we use VR for placing virtual monitors in it, we have done something wrong, in my opinion.
I would also argue that using a keyboard blindly is not a great option.

 

[chrono1081]

I know it's a mental thing but I get sick just looking at pictures of Zuck.

 

[Captain Trips]

I know it's a mental thing but I get sick just looking at pictures of Zuck.

I agree, but will this make you feel a little less sick?

 

[Cesar Battistini]

They are going to wait, let apple figure out how to make it, and them copy it.

 

[8KYUP]

That seems very strange to me. If we have a complete field of vision to fill with info, why would we restrict it by placing it on virtual rectangles? If we use VR for placing virtual monitors in it, we have done something wrong, in my opinion.
I would also argue that using a keyboard blindly is not a great option.

You are not using the keyboard blindly. You can see it in your actual environment by using passthrough. Again, it sounds that you have never used VR. In that scenario (as in the picture I posted) your monitors are superimposed on your actual environment (not over a virtual environment). You see your actual hands and your actual keyboard using the front facing cameras on the Quest 2 headset. Using the passthrough API, apps can also show selective portions of your actual environment over (through) a virtual environment. It is extremely flexible.

For 2D apps (browsers, spreadsheets, Lightroom, you name it) those lend themselves rectangular containment. You still need to organize content. Check out the supernatural app on oculus quest 2 below (amazing workout app - amazing) It uses an exemplary huge view of rectangular panels. They appear 15 feet tall and crystal clear in the app. Also when you are for instance browsing the web in a conventional browser and you click a youtube video or similar it will play in a theater sized window. If it is VR content it will play as 360 surround VR. When you minimize your are back to your huge monitor cluster in 2D. It is really so far superior to the status quo that once you try it you will understand.

 

[svish]

All others will be looking to see what exactly Apple launches and what the product can actually do. Meta might take up the project at a later date.

 

[randyhudson]

I don't quite follow how deciding to reuse an existing, open source platform is a setback.

 

[VulchR]

I think Meta, Apple and others won't push AR/VR very far. Many people get physically ill (nausea, headaches) wearing the googles because the visual stimulation doesn't match the vestibular stimulation.

Anyway, getting to the far more important issue of Zuck's weird looks, does anybody else think Elizabeth Holmes looks like a female clone of Zuckerberg?

Source: link

 

[_Spinn_]

It would be best if Meta halted all in-house development and shut down completely.

 

[frifra]

"...citing people familiar with the matter. "

Did you mean: ...citing people familiar with the META?

 

[tubular]

They are going to wait, let apple figure out how to make it, and them copy it.

Badly.

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[AtomicC]

I think Meta, Apple and others won't push AR/VR very far. Many people get physically ill (nausea, headaches) wearing the googles because the visual stimulation doesn't match the vestibular stimulation.

Anyway, getting to the far more important issue of Zuck's weird looks, does anybody else think Elizabeth Holmes looks like a female clone of Zuckerberg?

Source: link

I hope he will end his career also in the front of grand jury.

 

[burgman]

Current VR offers a lot that all users will like. Have you checked out VR yet? Multitask with multiple monitors over an actual or VR environment. Add monitors at will. Adjust monitor size, select curvature, reposition to taste. Browse with your fingers or via a connected bluetooth keyboard and mouse or by voice command and soon by eye motion. Move freely in your environment with on demand passthrough. Use this once and you will see the future of computing. What is a 2, 3, 5 monitor system going to cost? Can you use it on a plane? Can you use it on a forklift, a jobsite, on the can? Laying in bed? The work desk is a thing of the past. The real question is what place will our other devices have?

No doubt it’s valuable to those who need it, that’s also the problem, relatively few need it, especially on the can. Screams being single?