The Meta Quest smartphone app is being rebranded to Meta Horizon subsequent week.
The announcement comes after the app not too long ago bought an overhaul that modified the design and made retailer pages, search outcomes, and different content material considerably quicker to load. Beforehand the Meta Quest app stood out because the slowest feeling app on my telephone, and now it feels as quick as another.
The redesign introduced a light-weight mode to the app for the primary time, which might be seen within the screenshot above. It additionally makes pals and the algorithmic “feed” extra outstanding, requiring tapping small icons on the prime to entry the shop or your headset settings. Casting, for instance, is now two faucets away as a substitute of 1, whereas your app library is now buried deep in a menu.
Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From ASUS & Lenovo
Meta is rebranding its Quest software program platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it as much as third-party headset makers, together with ASUS and Lenovo.
The identify change is a part of Meta’s wider rebrand of the Quest software program platform to Horizon. The Quest working system is being renamed Horizon OS, and the Quest Retailer is being renamed the Horizon Retailer subsequent month.
The change might end in a complicated transition interval for brand spanking new Quest headset consumers, who would look forward to finding a Meta Quest app on their app retailer of alternative moderately than a Meta Horizon app. For many individuals the Horizon model remains to be strongly related to Horizon Worlds, Meta’s “metaverse” platform just like Rec Room and Roblox.
The aim of the rebrand, although, is to increase the platform to headsets from different firms, beginning with ASUS and Lenovo. Quest will stay the model for Meta’s first-party {hardware}, whereas Horizon would be the model for the software program stack, together with the platform and retailer.
