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Meta’s VR app store is about to fill up with phone-style 2D apps

Maybe iPad apps on the Vision Pro were a good idea after all.

But today’s announcement sounds like the company bringing its app store approach more in line with something like a Google or Apple online marketplace, encouraging developers to bring more smartphone- or tablet-style apps to its VR platform. Meta also says Quest users can now place apps wherever they want, change their size, and use up to six of them at the same time. Maybe Meta thinks that Apple was onto something when it rolled out the Vision Pro with years of iPad and iPhone apps supported out of the gate.

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