Meta may be rethinking plans to construct a brand new working system for its AR and VR units. The Information understands Meta just lately disbanded a crew of 300-plus individuals engaged on its long-in-the-making XROS. The crew will reportedly share its expertise with different elements of Meta. Some will transfer to the Project Aria AR glasses unit, whereas others will work on future Quest headsets and the “XR Tech” crew accountable for eye monitoring, hand monitoring and different machine notion options.

Rumors surfaced in January that Meta had halted most or all work on XROS in favor of refining the Android-based VROS platform used within the Quest 2 headset. Meta appeared to disclaim the transfer in an announcement to Engadget on the time, claiming that it was “not halting or scaling back” its actuality OS improvement.

We’ve requested Meta for touch upon this newest report. In an announcement to The Information, spokesperson Sheeva Slovan did not affirm or deny the state of XROS however did reference the disbanding. Meta might “speed up” work on expertise for every product line by putting OS engineers “directly” into its AR and VR groups, she stated, including that the corporate was nonetheless devoted to creating “highly specialized systems.”

A choice like this would possibly produce blended outcomes. While it might assist Meta launch new AR and VR merchandise that a lot quicker, it could additionally maintain the corporate tied to Android regardless of makes an attempt to drop Google’s software program. If these are true, you would possibly see extra frequent however iterative headset releases than if Meta continued work on XROS.