Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to create a limited edition Meta Quest VR headset that is “inspired by Xbox.” While both Microsoft and Meta aren't sharing all the details about this VR headset, it appears it will simply be a modified Meta Quest 3 (or an unannounced future version) that comes with an Xbox controller.
“We are working together again (with Microsoft) to create a limited edition, Xbox-inspired Meta Quest.” says goal in an announcement today. It's part of Meta opening up its operating system that powers its Quest VR headsets to third-party hardware manufacturers. Asus and Lenovo are creating dedicated headsets that run the Meta Horizon operating system, but the partnership with Microsoft appears to be simply a limited edition headset, much like how Microsoft creates limited edition Xbox consoles.
in a instagram.com/p/C6EalqUrLa3/”>instagram postMark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, says the version of the headset being promoted today “comes ready to use with Xbox controllers and Game Pass, so you can start playing immediately on a big screen wherever you go.”
Microsoft has a mixed history with virtual reality headsets on the Xbox side, which has led the company to partner more closely with Meta recently. A leak of documents in 2012 detailing Xbox One plans showed that Microsoft had considered Kinect glasses, codenamed Project Fortress. These never came to life with the launch of the Xbox One console, but Microsoft created a more powerful version of the Xbox One x that was supposed to support virtual reality.
“We've designed it so that something can plug and play directly,” Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said in 2016 of VR support for Project Scorpio, the codename for the Xbox One x. The Xbox One never had virtual reality headsets. support even though the company ships its Xbox One controllers with the Oculus Rift.
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