Quest’s Horizon OS may quickly allow you to share 2D home windows with others, datamining reveals.
VR fanatic Luna recurrently inspects the code of Meta’s Horizon OS to find new options and adjustments in growth. Now, Luna has found references to contextual “Share” and “Unshare” buttons on the menu bar for home windows, with an outline of “Shares a panel in order that different customers in your world see it”.
Strings in Quest/Horizon OS v76 PTC counsel that Meta is engaged on the power to share home windows with different customers in Horizon Dwelling (and presumably Worlds).
This can doubtless work equally to SharePlay on visionOS. pic.twitter.com/ZudymM05XJ
— Luna (@Lunayian) March 22, 2025
This might doubtlessly allow you to share your net browser with one other Quest proprietor visiting your digital dwelling, for instance, although it doubtless would not assist DRM’d video content material akin to streaming companies.
At present, YouTube VR is the one 2D app which helps co-watching on Quest, by what seems to be a customized implementation developed with Meta. Co-watching sure content material can also be obtainable in immersive apps although, akin to Bigscreen and VRChat.
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To be clear, 2D window sharing is separate from the primary individual view sharing that Horizon OS already helps in WhatsApp and Messenger view calls. That function sends your view of all the pieces you are seeing in VR and combined actuality, whereas this upcoming function would share the contents of a particular 2D window, akin to your net browser.
Window sharing is a basic function of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s visionOS, the place it is branded as SharePlay. SharePlay can also be supported on different Apple units through FaceTime, letting you watch supported content material with individuals who do not but personal a headset.
