Threads Launches a New VR App for Meta Quest Headsets
Meta brings its popular social platform to VR headsets with a full-featured app following a milestone of 500 million monthly active users.
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- Meta has released a dedicated Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets.
- The app supports full functionality including browsing feeds, posting, and watching videos.
- The rollout follows Threads coming to Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month.
Meta has officially rolled out a dedicated Threads application for Meta Quest virtual reality headsets, as announced by the company on Tuesday. This launch comes right on the heels of Meta bringing the social platform to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month, alongside recent milestones showing that the platform has successfully surpassed 500 million monthly active users.
The newly released application appears to be robust and full-featured. According to Meta, the Threads VR app allows users to perform a wide variety of tasks such as browsing feeds, creating new posts, liking and replying to conversations, visiting user profiles, searching for content, and watching videos—offering the complete core experience of the platform inside virtual reality.
Meta emphasized its goals for the platform in a statement, noting that the application was specifically engineered to make using virtual reality more social than ever before. Whether users want to keep up with active conversations during a gaming session, discuss the latest television show or hit album with friends, or simply perform quick checks between daily tasks, the native Threads app aims to significantly enhance the overall VR experience.
"We designed the new Threads app for Meta Quest to make using VR more social than ever." Meta
Expanding Threads into immersive hardware ecosystems like Meta Quest and AR glasses demonstrates Meta's long-term strategy to tightly integrate social networking with spatial computing devices. By embedding communication tools directly into headsets, the company bridges the gap between solitary virtual reality experiences and social connectivity, minimizing the need for users to remove their hardware just to check online updates.
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Users who own a compatible device can download the new application directly from Meta’s official store.
Source: The Verge
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