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by zlsa 1427 days ago
> specific ground-up custom OS

There are no doubt huge changes made, but Quest 2 runs Android underneath.
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Firmwarrior 1427 days ago
To be fair, this isn't like Amazon's "fire OS" where they just added a launcher app and randomly broke some APIs on accident. It's a pretty substantial addition to/departure from stock Android
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agloeregrets 1427 days ago
Sorry yeah absolutely, I intended to frame it as they have effectively thrown out pretty much all of the Android UI/UX along with building an app store from scratch.
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terafo 1427 days ago
They were building a custom OS for VR/AR, but development of it was slashed earlier this year.
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