Meta has begun opening up Quest App Lab, making beforehand unlisted video games and apps viewable on the primary retailer.
Launched in 2021 as a secondary distribution methodology for on-platform app gross sales, Quest App Lab is being retired quickly to make the Quest Retailer extra open. Happening in two levels, right now’s first step sees Meta’s introduce an App Lab tab to the shop. This enables Quest house owners to browse for App Lab apps with better ease and beforehand, discovering App Lab apps required the URL or precise search time period.
This follows Meta eradicating the earlier pop-up warning when checking App Lab pages, which was lately changed by a quieter disclaimer.
The second part will comply with at an unconfirmed date. That can kill App Lab and merge it utterly into the primary Quest Retailer with much less restrictive approval standards. Whereas submitted apps will now not be rejected for subjective causes or high quality, they have to nonetheless meet “primary technical, content material, and privateness necessities.”
App Lab’s retirement joined earlier information that Meta will rebrand the Meta Quest OS to Meta Horizon OS, turning the Meta Quest Retailer into the Meta Horizon Retailer. This strategy additionally sees them licencing Horizon OS to third-party headset makers like ASUS and Lenovo, giving them the identical core software program and platform providers as Quest headsets. We additionally realized that Meta is partnering with Microsoft’s Xbox on a “restricted version Meta Quest” headset.
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.
