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[5] [6] The development of the software parlayed into Facebook's own plans for VR headset development. Oculus Go, the first Oculus device to use Android and the company's first standalone VR device, was released on May 1, 2018. Apps and games made for the Rift headsets were backwards-compatible with the Oculus Quest.
Meta Horizon OS has gone through several changes since the release of the Oculus Rift DK1 on March 29, 2013.. The operating system has been updated on a roughly monthly basis since the v1.0 release in 2016, and was gradually ported from a proprietary embedded operating system to Android starting in 2015, first for the Samsung Gear VR and later for its own headsets.
In November 2018, YouTube VR was released on the Oculus Store for the Oculus Go headset. [10] YouTube VR was updated since for compatibility with successive Quest devices, and was ported to Pico 4. [11] Starting with the Oculus Quest, the app was updated for compatibility with mixed-reality passthrough modes on VR headsets. In April 2024 ...
Google debuts Android XR operating system gear toward VR headsets and AR smart glasses. ... will allow users to interact with everything from virtual reality apps to real-world objects via your ...
Android XR is an upcoming extended reality (XR) operating system developed by Google and based on Android. It was announced in December 2024 and will launch in 2025 on a headset manufactured by Samsung and a pair of smartglasses developed by Google DeepMind. It is heavily integrated with the Gemini generative artificial intelligence–powered ...
Apps for Meta's Quest VR headset now support hand claps, high-fives and other new controller-free gestures.
The success of Cardboard convinced Google to develop more advanced virtual reality hardware and appoint a new chief of virtual reality. [42] Google announced an enhanced VR platform called Daydream at Google I/O on May 18, 2016. [43] The platform's first headset, the Daydream View, was released on November 10, 2016. [44]
VRChat is also playable without a virtual reality device in a "desktop" [3] mode designed for a mouse and keyboard, gamepad, or mobile app for touchscreen devices. VRChat was first released as a Windows application for the Oculus Rift DK1 prototype on January 16, 2014, and was later released to the Steam early access program on February 1, 2017.