Meta plans to make connecting your Quest headset to Windows 11 easier - by simply staring at your keyboard

Date:
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:50:51 +0000

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Mark Zuckerberg announces integration of Meta Quest and Windows 11 upgrade to Remote Desktop.

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Meta Connect 2024 wrapped up earlier this week, and with it came big announcements. One such reveal was easier interoperation between the Meta Quest VR headset and Windows 11. In his keynote speech Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that pairing your Meta Quest headset with your
Windows PC will happen simply by looking at your keyboard.

Soon youre going to be able to connect to any Windows 11 PC, he said. You
just look at the keyboard, and itll start pairing. The pairing will allow you to work on one or more giant virtual displays, making Quest a natural extension of your PC.

You can already get this kind of feature in Metas Horizon Workrooms app, and in third-party apps like Immersed, but the proposed Remote Desktop
integration means you wont have to use new software or launch apps - it'll be as simple as staring down at your desktop for a moment to engage the link. Considering how much Apple has been pushing its own Vision Pro headset for mixed-reality workflows on Mac devices, this feels like a logical next step for Meta and Microsoft. Meta is putting its money behind augmented reality

The annual Metaverse-focused event also announced its new high-quality mixed reality Meta Quest 3S VR headset, costing $300 (290, AU$500) for the 128 GB version and $400 (380, AU$670) for the 256 GB version; there's also the 512
GB Meta Quest 3, which costs $500 (650, AU$1,050).

Meta AI will be getting a shiny new upgrade, with its smarter open-source language model Llama 3.2. One of the LLMs innovative features is that it can understand images as well as text.

The Metaverse will be seeing a new AR experience, photorealistic spaces
called Hyperscapes. Zuckerberg said, Youll be able to use your phone to scan
a room and then recreate it, or you can step into a room that someone else
has scanned and shared.

Other notable announcements: Batman Arkham Shadow will be a Meta exclusive, and included in all purchases of a Quest 3 or 3S. The Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro will cease sales by the end of 2024.

No date has been specified for when the Remote Desktop integration will happen; all we know is: soon. You might also like... Meta Connect 2024: the 6 biggest announcements from a packed keynote Metas game-changing Orion AR glasses could launch sooner than we thought, but they might cost as much as a smartphone And its gone discontinued Meta Quest 3 model already selling out online



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/meta-pla ns-to-make-connecting-your-quest-headset-to-windows-11-easier-by-simply-starin g-at-your-keyboard


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