Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth denied claims that Quest headset design might be outsourced to Goertek, the corporate’s Chinese language producer.

The declare first emerged final week as a rumor unfold by former VR developer Cix Liv. Cix claimed Meta’s headset design group “is gone”, and that Goertek would take over the position “100%”. Bosworth instantly and publicly denied this in a reply on X.

Cix additional claimed this is able to be adopted up by mass layoffs within the Quest phase of Meta’s Actuality Labs division in Q1 2025, as a part of a shift away from VR to AR, which Bosworth additionally denied.

The central declare reemerged at the moment, in a far much less outlandish type, in a report from The Data which claims that Meta plans to dump a lot of its Quest {hardware} improvement course of to Goertek sooner or later.

Meta has labored intently with Goertek to know the constraints and prices of various approaches for the reason that unique Oculus Rift, as a part of the design for manufacturability (DFM) course of. However The Data claims that Meta plans to shift “the design of parts akin to lenses and shows to Goertek”, and that Goertek has “began designing the outer shell” of future Quest headsets. It even makes the numerous declare that Meta desires Goertek to completely design Quest headsets by 2030.

Nevertheless, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly and instantly denied the declare of Quest headset design being outsourced in a sequence of posts on X, and instructed that the concept was pushed to The Data by the identical one that instructed it to Cix.

“We proceed to design our headsets in home as now we have and don’t have any plans to vary that,” Bosworth writes. “We all the time companion with our producers to a level however nothing materials is altering there.”

“Goertek is a superb companion and as elements of our stack are extra mature and used from headset to headset we’re glad to have them carry the designs throughout which has all the time been true”, Bosworth continued, “However this is not a change from how we have carried out enterprise with them at the same time as we scale it up”.

In response to additional agitation from Cix, linking to The Data article in an try to justify his claims, Bosworth as soon as once more denied the report, instantly stating “The article is fallacious”, and making his strongest assertion but: “Anybody procuring this nonsense is both a liar or a idiot.”