The Bigscreen app’s new Cloud Browser characteristic affords a synchronized browser with no PC, for a price.
It was already doable to share your PC display to others in a Bigscreen room, or to cowatch YouTube, native movies, or “channels” with no PC.
Because the title suggests, the brand new Cloud Browser runs within the cloud and streams synchronized to every person within the session, that means it provides you internet screensharing standalone on Quest, with no PC.
Bigscreen says Cloud Browser can be utilized with nearly any web site, together with video providers like PLEX or web-based video games, apart from platforms that use DRM, akin to Netflix and Disney+. These aren’t supported.
Bigscreen’s Cloud Browser is offered totally free for the primary two hours you ever use it, as a trial. After, it is priced at $1.99 for a day go or $9.99 for a 30-day go.
To be clear, solely the host must pay, not everybody else within the session.
The characteristic brings a functionality in any other case unavailable on Meta’s Horizon OS platform. Apple’s visionOS affords screensharing at any time throughout FaceTime periods, together with with its practical Spatial Personas. However Apple’s providing requires $3500 headsets, for now, whereas Bigscreen Cloud Browser works on the brand new $300 Quest 3S, in addition to the roughly 20 million Quest 2 headsets already in client fingers.
You’ll find the Bigscreen app for Quest on the Horizon Retailer.