Unlike the Oculus store, which has a closed ecosystem, Viveport, like the Steam store will have
a fairly open platform.
Don't let that stop you: Android is
a fairly open platform, and you can hack together your own parental controls by installing a utility such as Application Protection to restrict which apps can be used on the device.
Not exact matches
For that financial outlay you'd be getting a 7 - inch tablet that is powered by Amazon's own FireOS — which is essentially just a custom version of the
open - source Android
platform — along with a
fairly decent specification given the price.
This means that today's move
opens up entirely new sorts of machine learning scenarios to developers of all spades, and thanks to Google Cloud
Platform's competitive pricing and lack of upfront cost, amateur developers and researchers can play along for
fairly cheap.
Since
opening up the
platform to developers in 2015, Amazon has been able to grow the number of «Skills» (like apps but specifically for voice control) which Alexa offers to over 10,000 — a
fairly large number, everything considered.