still thinking about how the official meta quest twitter account put out a (for some reason now deleted) video yesterday of someone pretending that a screenshot of a task manager from a phone was actually a task manager they could interact with in headset
and someone put it out there thinking no one would notice the window title literally said "file viewer", or that the box didn't check when they tried to check it
it feels interestingly desperate - like facebook has in some way squandered every non-gaming advantage they could have had, and it was just waiting for someone to come along and show what even 2D apps in a 3D space could do. like, i didn't fully realize the shit state of media apps until reading uploadvr's extra long AVP review
Iāve often heard people say āyou can do this already with Quest!ā, but this simply isnāt true - at least not legally. Quest has no built-in way to rent or download movies and no apps on the store offer downloading or 3D. Thereās a Netflix VR app, but it requires controllers to use, doesnāt support downloads, and only streams 480p. Thereās also a Peacock app, but itās essentially just a shortcut to the website so doesnāt support downloads either. To legally download movies on Quest you have to sideload the Android phone APKs of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video from your computer. However, neither of these services has 3D content and Netflix will only stream 576p. Itās not that Quest as a piece of hardware isnāt capable of this use case, itās that Meta simply doesn't offer the software for it. Meta (then Facebook) had its own 3D movie rental service back in the Gear VR and Go days, but then shut it down around the launch of Quest to launch a partner app from Vudu instead. Then last year, it shut that down too.
and so while i have no interest in meta's hardware anymore beyond academic, i'm curious what they try to actually improve their odds in this area - if they actually try and get google play or something