Now you can share your first particular person view throughout video calls in Messenger on Quest headsets.
View sharing throughout calls is changing into a normal characteristic of blended actuality headsets and good glasses. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional house owners can share their view throughout FaceTime calls, and Ray-Ban Meta glasses house owners can share their view in WhatsApp and Messenger calls.
Now Messenger on Horizon OS can do that too, although the characteristic does not seem like accessible in WhatsApp.
The Messenger app for Horizon OS has additionally been up to date to be panorama and resizeable, whereas beforehand Quest had the portrait-only smartphone model of the app.
Others on the decision see precisely what you see, together with each passthrough and digital content material equivalent to 2D home windows and VR video games, although any DRM-protected content material equivalent to Netflix is not going to seem.
Whereas view sharing you are unable to take screenshots or movies, nor are you able to forged the headset to a TV or cellphone, so we aren’t capable of present you footage of the brand new characteristic in motion.
After all, what Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally presents in video calls that Quest does not is the flexibility to look as a digital avatar. Over a 12 months in the past a Meta govt stated the corporate was engaged on this, however the characteristic has but to ship.
It is attainable Meta might share updates on this at Meta Join, set for September 25-26.