Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are available for free on Meta’s Quest VR headsets. The virtual office apps aren’t entirely optimized, though, so bring a Bluetooth keyboard.
Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now available to download for free on Meta’s Quest VR headsets, as reported by Android Central. They appear to be the web versions of the apps, so while there’s a lot that’s very familiar about them, after giving the apps a whirl from inside a Quest 3, I can tell you that the virtual office experience still has a few quirks. The first hurdle is logging in.
But even though it works in VR, it’s not optimized for VR, so I found myself running into a lot of trouble selecting Word’s tiny formatting icons or moving my cursor when I was using the Touch Plus. I spent about 10 minutes typing up a short document, mostly using hand tracking and the Quest on-screen keyboard. While the keyboard worked better than when I last wrote about it, it was still much slower than using even a touchscreen keyboard.
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