Your Meta Quest Headset Just Got A Major Upgrade For Free - Especially For Content Creators

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Meta has announced 3 caller features for nan Quest headset.
• Horizon TV is simply a caller hub for each your streaming content.
• Also caller is simply a measurement to make a integer transcript of your room.

At Meta Connect 2025 arena successful September, we sewage our expected peek astatine the company's upcoming smart glasses (three caller versions are connected nan way), specifications connected upgrades to its existing glasses, and a fewer different surprises.

While nan spotlight was connected devices, we besides sewage a glimpse of Meta's plans for its Quest headsets. The institution announced a trio of free features for its VR headsets, 2 of which are disposable to each devices and 1 of which is reserved for nan newer Quest and Quest 3S.

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Here's a look astatine nan caller features now disposable connected your Quest headset. 

Horizon TV Hub

Streaming movies and TV shows pinch your Quest headset is astir to get a small easier, arsenic Meta has announced Horizon TV. This caller hub will beryllium nan location to aggregate celebrated streaming services for illustration Netflix, Prime Video, ESPN, Peacock, Hulu, and Disney+. It will support Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision (Vision comes later this year), meaning you'll person high-quality audio and video. 

Some Universal Studios shows for illustration M3GAN and The Black Phone will moreover person immersive 3D typical effects.

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Meta seems to beryllium investing heavy successful TV and movies. James Cameron announced earlier this year that his Lightstorm Vision task had signed a woody pinch Meta for 3D intermezo "featuring big-name IP," including unrecorded sports and concerts, movies, and TV shows. (An exclusive 3D clip of Avatar: Fire and Ash is disposable now, Meta says.)

Horizon Studio

Also connected nan measurement is Meta Horizon Studio, a generative AI editor for nan Meta Horizon Worlds playground. You tin already usage Horizon Worlds to create things for illustration textures and audio for your ain virtual worlds, but you'll now person an AI adjunct to thief you. You tin usage verbal prompts to create worlds for illustration a UFC octagon ring, a home, aliases an underwater seascape, aliases to make changes for illustration a caller situation aliases modify an AI-driven NPC.

Hyperspace capture

Utilizing thing called "Gaussian Splatting," a caller Hyperspace Capture characteristic uses nan cameras connected your headset to return photos of your situation and past move them into a integer replica you tin visit. (It appears that this characteristic is only for nan Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S.) The process takes conscionable a fewer minutes, Meta explains. The consequence is static, and thing moves. Still, the results are apparently beautiful impressive, moreover amended than Apple's spatial photos.