Meta is testing a characteristic for its Quest headsets that lets you 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 number of years now, however at present, it solely helps three digital home windows docked in a side-by-side format.
It brings the Quest 3, particularly, a step nearer to Apple’s spatial computing when utilized in blended actuality mode, however from the video, it doesn’t appear to work fairly the identical method. 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 area and preserve one other three docked.
Different demos recommend that the home windows will solely bear in mind their placement inside a restricted distance and return to their default positions do you have to change orientation or reset the view. We haven’t examined it but ourselves to know the complete limitations right here, nevertheless it appears promising.
The replace additionally lets you 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 lets you transfer home windows round whichever area you’re in and preserve them locked in place even when you transfer round and after you are taking the headset off. That method, you’ll be able to have a window sitting subsequent to your fridge and one other positioned alongside the TV in your lounge, after which stroll to and from the home windows as in the event that they’re precise objects.
