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Communication Standard for Smart Home Devices

Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance have decided to unite and begin to develop a communication standard for all smart home devices. The Connected Home over IP project will greatly simplify the development of new applications, the process of synchronizing devices and software, including voice assistants, cloud services and other mobile applications. The working group will work together on an open source standard. Members of the group want other developers to join the project and contribute to the development of the standard. Apple has already released its first smart home product inside this project, the HomeKit Accessory Development Kit. The application is open source, that is, open to all developers and published in the public domain on GitHub.

Facebook Operating System

Facebook decided to abandon Android services and create their own mobile operating system. It is assumed that the new OS will be created from scratch, but with the involvement of specialists who worked on the creation of the very first and most popular operating networks. Recently, a very good specialist, a former Microsoft employee who participated in the creation of basic systems for Windows 7 and 10, Mark Luсovsky, was attracted to work on the project. In the near future, the company plans to transfer all of its devices, including the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset and the Oculus Go stand-alone virtual headset, to its own operating system. At the moment, the company is developing new virtual reality glasses, which are likely to become one of the first carriers of the new operating system. The release of the VR glasses is tentatively announced for the year 2023.