I predict this will end up being a completely new platform.
It will share nothing with the present Android architecture initially. They'll probably shove in an Android sandbox, so that you can run some existing Android apps and stick them somewhere in your virtual space. But those won't be native apps on this new platform.
The new apps will have drastically different needs, input methods and such.
Consider the simple example of a new turn-by-turn navigation app. It will have a waypoint shown in your field of view, with an arrow pointing to the next waypoint after it. It has to 'stick' in a virtual location that corresponds to a physical one.
There's no way to do that sort of thing with the existing Android API, the concepts simply don't exist. Rather than have everyone write their own (like video games do that implement navigation inside the game world), they'll create a new API for this. And a whole new operating system.
It will share nothing with the present Android architecture initially. They'll probably shove in an Android sandbox, so that you can run some existing Android apps and stick them somewhere in your virtual space. But those won't be native apps on this new platform.
The new apps will have drastically different needs, input methods and such.
Consider the simple example of a new turn-by-turn navigation app. It will have a waypoint shown in your field of view, with an arrow pointing to the next waypoint after it. It has to 'stick' in a virtual location that corresponds to a physical one.
There's no way to do that sort of thing with the existing Android API, the concepts simply don't exist. Rather than have everyone write their own (like video games do that implement navigation inside the game world), they'll create a new API for this. And a whole new operating system.