On April 22, 2024, the company announced that the platform would be rebranded as Meta Horizon OS and opened to third-party headset manufacturers, starting with Microsoft, Asus and Lenovo.

Development of the software platform increased following the March 2014 acquisition of Oculus VR (now the Reality Labs division of Meta).

On April 22, 2024, the company announced that the platform would be rebranded as Meta Horizon OS and opened to third-party headset manufacturers, starting with Microsoft, Asus and Lenovo.

In addition, the entire source for the Rift DK1 was released to the public in September 2014, including the firmware, schematics, and mechanicals for the device.

[8] In October 2021, Facebook released an update to the Oculus Go which can be sideloaded to unlock "full root access" to the device hardware.

OS v65 and later versions support Travel Mode for the Quest 2, 3 and 3s, allowing users to use either headset in a seated position during airplane flights and, since v71, train trips.

Users are able to switch between multiple windows to launch, focus, minimize, and close any open apps that support multitasking.

Initially appearing as a grayscale camera feed and marketed as part of the Guardian safety feature, Passthrough was first made available in color in v47 for the Quest Pro.

Since February 2016, speech recognition on the operating system has allowed for the control of synchronized lip movements on avatars utilizing the OVRLipSync feature.

In April 2021, Oculus released "Air Link," an alternative mode that uses WiFi for connectivity instead of USB.

Following the release of v72, several users of Quest 2, 3 and 3s reported failed updates resulting in being unable to boot into Horizon OS, with a black screen appearing with the error "Your device is corrupt.

[19] On January 19, 2025, Mark Rabkin, Meta's Vice President of Horizon OS and Quest, blamed a four-year old bug in Android file system which could cause file corruption during read/write operations, which was exacerbated by a security patch that prevented the operating system from rolling back.