Under the name XROS, Meta (formerly Facebook) is working on its own operating system for all future AR and VR projects. After four years of development, not everything appears to be running smoothly, according to internal sources.
A news report on The Information reveals that development of XROS was scrapped last November. According to internal sources, Meta (then Facebook) began developing its own operating system in 2017 with a focus on VR and AR. Mark Zuckerberg was still talking in the middle of last year about an OS based on microkernels with tight control over each hardware layer.
According to Zuckerberg, the team was well advanced for a launch in the “not too distant future. The latest reports now contradict that with a scrapping of the project that had 300 people working on it.
Meta, meanwhile, has officially responded to The Verge with a statement that it does still work on an operating system for AR and VR. It is not scaling back operations, nor is there any talk of pausing the project. “The team continues to progress and co-invest in building a future platforms such as AR glasses and wearables to realize our metaverse vision.”
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