Motorola telephone house owners will quickly be capable of wirelessly see and use their system in VR on Quest’s Horizon OS.
Introduced in a visitor look by Mark Zuckerberg at Lenovo Tech World 2024, Motorola’s Good Join app is coming to Horizon OS as a 2D app “within the close to future”.
Zuckerberg stated this can allow you to “work together with any apps in your telephone and a a lot greater digital display screen”, although solely with Motorola telephones.
Motorola has round 5% smartphone market share globally and round 10% within the US. Meaning this information will not impression nearly all of individuals. However those that do personal one may discover it a helpful characteristic to remain linked in VR.
With visionOS 2, iPhone house owners can view their telephone in VR in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, however they can not management it.
It is unclear whether or not or not Motorola’s answer will help DRM content material resembling Netflix and Disney+, which might be helpful to entry downloaded content material when offline. You’ll be able to already view nearly any telephone in Horizon OS utilizing a USB-C cable through Meta Quest HDMI Hyperlink, but it surely would not help the HDCP DRM system.
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.
Zuckerberg additionally confirmed that Lenovo, Motorola’s guardian firm, continues to be engaged on a number of Horizon OS headsets of its personal, initially introduced again in April.
There is not any timeline for after we’ll see the primary Lenovo Horizon OS headset although, and given there wasn’t a tease at Lenovo Tech World 2024 we seemingly will not see one till 2025 on the earliest.
