Meta is testing a function for its Quest headset that permits you to freely place home windows, just like the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Multi-window multitasking has been part of Meta Horizon OS (previously Meta Quest OS), however at present, it solely helps three digital home windows docked in a side-by-side structure.
Particularly, it brings the Quest 3 nearer to Apple’s spatial computing when utilized in blended actuality mode, however judging from the footage, it would not appear to work fairly the identical approach. You possibly can freely transfer as much as three home windows in your 2D utility (corresponding to browser or working system home windows (corresponding to your libraries and settings)) inside your area, and maintain three different home windows docked.
Different demos have proven that viewports will solely keep in mind their place inside a restricted distance and return to the default place if you swap orientations or reset the view. We’ve not examined it ourselves to see its full limitations, nevertheless it seems promising.
The replace additionally means that you can swap between curved and flat home windows, in addition to a dimmer to cut back the brightness of digital environments when utilizing 2D functions. (The latter is just not but obtainable in pass-through mode.)
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional enables you to transfer home windows round any area you are in and maintain them locked in place whilst you transfer and after you’re taking off your headphones. This manner, you possibly can place a window in your lounge subsequent to the fridge and one other window subsequent to the TV, and stroll backwards and forwards between the home windows as in the event that they had been actual objects.
