Almost two years in the past, Meta introduced that Quest’s social house, Horizon House, would permit customers to observe YouTube movies collectively—one thing we’ve been wishing was simple to do in VR for a very long time. Pleasure waned, nonetheless, when the characteristic by no means truly made it out the door. Now the corporate says social viewing for YouTube is lastly prepared.
It’s been doable to observe YouTube movies along with buddies in VR; it simply hasn’t been simple. Downloading further apps—which frequently have their very own accounts, avatars, and friends-lists—is numerous hoops to leap by way of. Ideally the characteristic would simply be constructed proper into the prevailing YouTube VR app on Quest.
That was the plan anyway. Back in 2022, Meta announced that social viewing was coming to YouTube VR on Quest. However then it simply… by no means occurred.
Higher late than by no means, anyway. Meta at the moment introduced… once more… that YouTube VR is getting a social viewing characteristic. The corporate says customers will have the ability to provoke a co-watching session from inside the YouTube VR app, which is able to permit others to affix you within your Horizon House to observe the identical content material.
At the moment we don’t know for certain what number of customers can be part of the identical session, however our understanding is that the social viewing characteristic ought to help not solely flat YouTube movies, but additionally immersive 180 and 360 VR content material as effectively.
Meta says the characteristic will start rolling out subsequent week.
