Almost two years in the past, Meta introduced that Quest’s social area, Horizon Dwelling, would enable 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 really made it out the door. Now the corporate says social viewing for YouTube is lastly prepared.
It’s been potential to observe YouTube movies along with pals in VR; it simply hasn’t been simple. Downloading further apps—which regularly have their very own accounts, avatars, and friends-lists—is plenty of hoops to leap by way of. Ideally the characteristic would simply be constructed proper into the present YouTube VR app on Quest.
That was the plan anyway. Again in 2022, Meta introduced 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 in the present day introduced… once more… that YouTube VR is getting a social viewing characteristic. The corporate says customers will be capable to provoke a co-watching session from inside the YouTube VR app, which is able to enable others to affix you inside your Horizon Dwelling to observe the identical content material.
At the moment we don’t know for certain what number of customers can be a 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 nicely.
Meta says the characteristic will start rolling out subsequent week.
