Meta is adding social hangouts to the Quest’s VR home space
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#607MS)
Meta Quest virtual reality headsets will soon offer an option for hanging out with other people in your homescreen. The v41 Quest update will add a multiuser Horizon Home space, which Meta announced last year at Connect. Horizon Home lets people put on their headsets and immediately invite other Quest users to jump into social experiences, including watching VR videos as a group. It's a step toward a larger Horizon-branded metaverse" that Meta has been rolling out piecemeal over the past few years.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Home's rollout in a video with Free Solo climber Alex Honnold, offering a brief demo of the system. Zuckerberg and Honnold appear as Horizon's traditional legless avatars and pop into a 360-degree video of...