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Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets


“Extend Windows apps into 3D space.”

Details are slim, but the company showed off a digital exploded 3D view of an Xbox controller from the perspective of a Meta Quest 3 headset, a digital object you could manipulate with your hands — and says it took its software partner Creo a single day to bring that interactive visualization to Quest. Meanwhile, other PC makers have begun licensing Meta’s Quest operating system for their own upcoming headsets. A weekly newsletter uncovering the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft’s era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and computing.

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