NVIDIA introduced at CES 2025 that its extending assist for its cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico headsets.
The announcement doesn’t seem to incorporate assist for VR cloud gaming—i.e. the flexibility to play play VR-native titles—however fairly entry to straightforward video games playable throughout Home windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and handheld gaming gadgets.
Customers on Imaginative and prescient Professional, Quest 3/S and Pico headsets will be capable of stream video games by way of GeForce NOW by way of browsers when the model 2.0.70 replace begins rolling out later this month, Nvidia says.
When it does arrive, Nvidia says we will anticipate “all of the bells and whistles of NVIDIA applied sciences, together with ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS.” GeForce NOW for VR headsets is claimed to incorporate assist for gamepad-compatible titles on a “huge digital display.”
Notably, Nvidia’s cloud gaming service presents customers restricted entry at no cost, and larger, higher-quality entry throughout varied each day passes and month-to-month subscription choices. It additionally boasts over 2,000 titles in its library.
Nvidia isn’t the primary to supply cloud gaming to standalone VR gadgets. In 2022, Pluto VR introduced its short-lived cloud gaming service to Quest. Referred to as PlutoSphere, the companion app was pulled from the shop in early 2024 amid a wider crackdown by Meta to take away unapproved cloud streaming companies.
Consequently, Microsoft was given the inexperienced gentle to convey its Xbox Cloud Gaming and Sport Cross library to Quest in late 2023.
