The headset partnership between Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm was announced earlier this year. Samsung will be responsible for manufacturing, Google will contribute the operating system and software development, and Qualcomm will supply the chipset. The (unspoken) goal of the alliance is to bring a product to market that can compete with or even outmatch Apple’s Vision Pro.
I’m sure the hardware will be great, but I doubt they will be able to compete with Apple’s ecosystem integration.
Just having an alternative -even partial- to Apple’s ecosystem is enough for me
Assuming it’ll run android apps that’s arguably a loss for apple.
I’m mostly thinking about the Vision Pro demo where they were able to interact with a MacBook seamlessly. That’s a level of integration that I don’t think we will see out of this partnership. Hope to be proven wrong of course.
my Quest 3 can run Android apps, I sideloaded F-Droid, Jerboa, and ScummVM into it lol
it honestly works better than expected, no complaints except you can’t adjust the aspect ratio of the apps, they just stay in like a portrait mode (except ScummVM which correctly forces itself to always be landscape)
Pico does too, and it puts everything in landscape/tablet mode. I don’t understand why anyone would assume a VR headset (made by Samsung no less) wouldn’t support Android apps.
You can actually, you have to hit the “change view” button on the dock, and then you can scale the app up to be huge and any aspect ratio you want.
I meant in tablet mode, much nicer when walking around or using it barehanded
Oh, okay yeah.
I wouldn’t mind better android app support, I’ve tried reading comics on it and I hate having to use the controllers
They also won’t he able to get a foothold if it’s not good for gaming
The PS2 was the best selling DVD player of all time for a reason
They’re angling for productivity, but you can do productivity with other established brands, and it’s hard to compete with the integration of Apple Stuff. So if I can do productivity on a gaming headset, why would I buy a productivity headset that doesn’t do gaming?
