Motorola cellphone house owners will quickly have the ability to wirelessly see and use their gadget in VR on Quest’s Horizon OS.
Introduced in a visitor look by Mark Zuckerberg at Lenovo Tech World 2024, Motorola’s Sensible 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 cellphone 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 affect nearly all of folks. However those that do personal one might discover it a helpful characteristic to remain linked in VR.
With visionOS 2, iPhone house owners can view their cellphone in VR in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, however they cannot management it.
It is unclear whether or not or not Motorola’s answer will help DRM content material reminiscent of Netflix and Disney+, which might be helpful to entry downloaded content material when offline. You possibly can already view virtually any cellphone in Horizon OS utilizing a USB-C cable through Meta Quest HDMI Hyperlink, however it does 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 mother or father firm, remains to be engaged on a number of Horizon OS headsets of its personal, initially introduced again in April.
There isn’t any timeline for once we’ll see the primary Lenovo Horizon OS headset although, and given there wasn’t a tease at Lenovo Tech World 2024 we doubtless will not see one till 2025 on the earliest.
