Meta is testing a function for its Quest headsets that permits you to place home windows freely, just like the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Multitasking with a number of home windows has been a part of Meta Horizon OS (previously Meta Quest OS) for a couple of years now, however at the moment, it solely helps three digital home windows docked in a side-by-side format.
It brings the Quest 3, specifically, a step nearer to Apple’s spatial computing when utilized in combined actuality mode, however from the video, it doesn’t appear to work fairly the identical approach. You’ll be able to freely transfer as much as three home windows from 2D apps — such because the browser or OS home windows like your library and settings — round your house and maintain one other three docked.
Different demos recommend that the home windows will solely keep in mind their placement inside a restricted distance and return to their default positions must you change orientation or reset the view. We haven’t examined it but ourselves to know the total limitations right here, however it seems to be promising.
The replace additionally permits you to change between curved and flat home windows, in addition to a dimmer that lowers the brightness of digital environments whereas utilizing 2D apps. (The latter doesn’t but work for passthrough mode.)
The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional permits you to transfer home windows round whichever house you’re in and maintain them locked in place even whilst you transfer round and after you are taking the headset off. That approach, you may have a window sitting subsequent to your fridge and one other positioned alongside the TV in your front room, after which stroll to and from the home windows as in the event that they’re precise objects.