Meta is putting its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers on hold.

Meta says it has temporarily stopped sharing its Meta Horizon OS, the hybrid operating system that powers its Quest headphones, with third-party hardware manufacturers. The program was part of the metaverse push – the idea behind the program was to create “a new generation of hardware” which will give VR users a choice of their own devices when it comes to engaging in Meta’s digital worlds.

“We have put the program on hold to focus on building the world-class hardware and software needed to advance the VR market,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We are committed to doing this for the long term and we will also look at opportunities to partner with other teams as the team grows.”

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Last April, the tech giant he announced that will be opening up Meta Horizon OS to third-party theme developers. At the time, the company said that Asus, Microsoft’s Xbox, and Lenovo were all working on developing new hardware that would run the company’s software. “As we’ve seen with the PC and mobile phone industries, consumers are better served by a hardware ecosystem that makes all computing devices and other specialized products, all running on a single platform,” the company said at the time.

Between the announcement of the affiliate program and now, there haven’t been many updates about it. In September, at the company’s Connect event, a Meta spokesperson he said that Meta is still working with its partners to push Horizon OS to more devices.

Horizon OS is designed to provide “mixed reality experiences,” as well as “traditional” interactions through technologies such as hand, body, eye, and face tracking. It was launched in the days of Mark Zuckerberg he kept that Metaverse was the “future” of his company.

Unfortunately for Horizon and the coders who work there, Meta and his boss seem to be uninterested in the latest developments, as AI becomes more and more important to the company. Earlier this month, Bloomberg he said that The metaverse team within Reality Labs, the division of Meta that focuses on VR and AR tools, faced budget cuts of up to 30%. The company later he confirmed that plans to “shift some of our money from Metaverse to AI glasses and apparel because of the momentum there.”