Meta’s Quest headsets add spatial video and pinch controls to compete with Vision Pro

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Meta is rolling out spatial video and new pinching gestures to its Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets just before the launch of the Vision Pro.

The Meta Quest 3 will soon give wearers the ability to easily view spatial videos as well as use new pinching gestures for control, features that are similar to what you’ll find in Apple’s much more expensive Vision Pro headset that launches this week. Both changes are starting to roll out gradually as part of update v62, which should get to most owners of Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro headsets starting the week of February 7th.

” His post includes a short clip of a Quest headset playing a spatial video of trees. Meta is making spatial video demos available from the “Spatial videos” section of the Files app as well, allowing users to try out the feature before the update arrives. Some Quest 3 owners have already shown how to convert Apple’s spatial videos for playback in their headsets using standard side-by-side 3D formats, but official support should mean having the ability to skip that extra step.

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