Meta overhauled Quest’s TV app as a hub for streaming content material, each flatscreen and immersive, and eliminated all user-uploaded movies.
Initially generally known as Oculus TV, then Meta Quest TV, and now merely TV, the app beforehand totally centered on 180° and 360° content material, together with user-uploaded movies.
Earlier this yr, Meta emailed all creators with movies on the platform to tell them that their movies would quickly be unavailable, and can be deleted on September 22. The corporate really useful migrating them to YouTube prematurely of the deadline.
Now, the TV app has been utterly revamped.
Whereas it nonetheless reveals choose professionally produced 180° and 360° video content material, corresponding to Crimson Bull’s Touching the Sky and The Faceless Woman, it now focuses simply as a lot on flatscreen streaming content material from Amazon Prime Video and Comcast’s Peacock.
It incorporates a glossy new design with seven tabs: Residence, Motion pictures, TV Exhibits, Immersive, Sports activities, Music, and Watchlist:
- The Motion pictures and TV Exhibits tabs are populated by content material from Prime Video and Peacock. None of this content material performs inside the TV app, to be clear. It merely acts as a hub collating really useful content material, and clicking on any will carry you to mentioned content material within the Prime Video and Peacock apps.
- The Immersive tab incorporates a mixture of hyperlinks to Horizon Worlds live shows and in-app 180° and 360° content material from companions like TARGO, Crimson Bull, Examined, and SNL.
- The Sports activities tab is populated by livestreams and sports activities films and documentaries from Prime Video and Peacock. As with Motion pictures and TV Exhibits, these are hyperlinks to the content material that can open within the app for the platform.
- The Music tab is a mix of hyperlinks to currently-running Horizon Worlds live shows, in-app 180° and 360° recordings of previous live shows, and hyperlinks to Amazon Music content material.
- The Watchlist tab, as you would possibly count on, reveals content material that you have added to your watchlist.
Footage by UploadVR of the new Horizon OS TV app.
Whereas the app has 180° and 360° tags to mark immersive content material, it would not distinguish between 2D and 3D.
Meta “Courting” Disney & A24 To Make Immersive Video For Horizon OS
Meta is “courting” Disney and A24 to provide immersive video for Horizon OS, providing “hundreds of thousands of {dollars}”, The Wall Road Journal reviews.
Final yr, Meta and James Cameron introduced an unique multi-year partnership to assist carry considerably extra 3D video content material to Quest headsets, and earlier this yr The Wall Road Journal reported that Meta was “courting” Hollywood companies together with Disney and A24, providing “hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” to offer “episodic and stand-alone immersive video primarily based on well-known mental property”. The Horizon OS TV app overhaul could also be laying the foundations for searching this future content material.
Meta Join 2025 takes place subsequent week, and it is attainable the corporate may have extra to share on its TV app technique then.
