Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets
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You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens-like 3D apps and digital objects to the headset, too?
At Build, Microsoft has just announced “Windows Volumetric Apps on Meta Quest,” a way to “extend Windows apps into 3D space.”
Details are slim, but the company showed off a digital exploded 3D view of an Xbox controller from the perspective of a Meta Quest 3 headset, a digital object you could manipulate with your hands — and says it took its software partner Creo a single day to bring that interactive visualization to Quest.
Microsoft says devs can sign up for the...