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Android XR vs. Meta Horizon OS: How Meta Quest and Google tech will stack up


Android XR is the evolution of past, abandoned Google projects, while Meta Horizon OS represents a decade of active development. Can Google compete with (or beat) Meta?

Sony already announced its mixed-reality headset at CES 2024, and Xreal previously hinted that it intended to make its glasses compatible with a multimodal AI on your phone, meaning Google Gemini. Meta announced Horizon OS as "our open mixed reality ecosystem" and did not mention glasses, so it may not intend to share its software with anyone targeting this form factor — or at least not yet. And if any Android XR brand hopes to sell AR glasses, they'll have to deal with the simple fact that they seem extremely difficult to create in a lightweight, functional form factor.

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