Discord is coming to Quest’s Horizon OS “as a local app” in 2026.
Through the Join 2025 Developer Keynote, Meta’s VP of Metaverse Content material Samantha Ryan introduced that the favored communication platform is coming subsequent yr as a “native app”.
No particular particulars past which were revealed but, however Ryan’s wording means that like Zoom, and in contrast to Spotify, Discord ought to arrive as a real app, not only a net app container.
Zoom Is Now Obtainable As A 2D App On Quest
Zoom is now freely out there on Quest headsets, by an official 2D Android app on the Meta Horizon Retailer.
Discord is about to be the fifth main communication platform out there on Quest. In addition to Zoom, Meta’s personal WhatsApp and Messenger are already out there on Horizon OS as native apps, and so is Instagram.
Final yr Horizon OS added the power to share your first particular person view in communication apps, the equal of a cellphone’s rear digicam, and this yr the power to seem as your Meta Avatar, the equal of the selfie digicam.
As a local app, Discord ought to be capable of benefit from these options too.
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