Meta’s VR app store is about to fill up with phone-style 2D apps

Meta’s Quest headsets and app store have been around for a while, but with a software experience largely limited to 3D and AR apps and games. But now, the company says it’s opening things up — Horizon OS and Quest VP Mark Rabkin said during Meta Connect that from today, the Meta app store “fully welcomes 2D and spatial apps.”

Meta also says it supports web apps, and what do you know? The New York Times’ Wordle app for Quest headsets, which we wrote about last week, is a Progressive Web App.

The company’s app store, until now, has been heavily curated, with a single experimental section called App Lab. But today’s announcement sounds like the company bringing its app store approach more in line with something like a Google or Apple…

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