Android XR Creates a Major Dilemma That Will Make or Break Meta's XR Ambitions
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Meta has publicly stated that it wants to be “the Android of XR.” But you know who else wants to be the Android of XR? Android XR, of course. Beyond debates about specs or features, one major factor is likely to determine whether Meta can fend off growing pressure from Google and Apple in the …

So between Meta and Google, we have two XR platforms:

  • Meta’s Horizon OS has the largest and best library of immersive apps.
  • Google’s Android XR has the largest and best library of flat apps.

To dominate XR, both need what the other has. But who faces a bigger challenge?

Meta, it seems, is in a tougher spot.

Immersive app developers are hungry for growth. If a popular game can gain 25% more users by porting to Android XR, the decision is obvious.

By contrast, major flat apps (like Spotify, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discord) stand to gain relatively little growth from porting to Horizon OS. They’d be lucky to gain even 0.25% more users than they already have on the entirety of Android.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    All Meta has to do is wait a couple of months or a year for Google to inevitably lose interest in XR and abandon their current project. Easy peasy.

    As much as I’d love to see Meta get fucked in any, even the tiniest, capacity, I don’t think they have much to worry about.

    At present all of these augmented reality pipe dreams are halfassed solutions looking for problems. Here in reality, nobody cares. We just want to play VR games and watch VR porn. The other stuff is just annoying noise from the boardroom.