Meta has begun opening up Quest App Lab, making beforehand unlisted video games and apps viewable on the principle retailer.
Launched in 2021 as a secondary distribution technique for on-platform app gross sales, Quest App Lab is being retired quickly to make the Quest Retailer extra open. Going down in two phases, as we speak’s first step sees Meta’s introduce an App Lab tab to the shop. This permits Quest house owners to browse for App Lab apps with larger ease and beforehand, discovering App Lab apps required the URL or actual search time period.
This follows Meta eradicating the earlier pop-up warning when checking App Lab pages, which was just lately changed by a quieter disclaimer.
The second section will comply with at an unconfirmed date. That can kill App Lab and merge it utterly into the principle Quest Retailer with much less restrictive approval standards. Whereas submitted apps will not be rejected for subjective causes or high quality, they have to nonetheless meet “primary technical, content material, and privateness necessities.”
App Lab’s retirement joined earlier information that Meta will rebrand the Meta Quest OS to Meta Horizon OS, turning the Meta Quest Retailer into the Meta Horizon Retailer. This method additionally sees them licencing Horizon OS to third-party headset makers like ASUS and Lenovo, giving them the identical core software program and platform providers as Quest headsets. We additionally realized that Meta is partnering with Microsoft’s Xbox on a “limited edition Meta Quest” headset.
Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From ASUS & Lenovo
Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third-party headset makers, including ASUS and Lenovo.
