Meta’s redesigned Quest app puts a big focus on Horizon Worlds

Meta is rolling retired a revamped type of its Quest mobile app that links it much intimately pinch its 3D societal level Horizon Worlds. The app, now called Meta Horizon, comes pinch a caller tab that lets you complete quests from your telephone and customize your avatar.

You tin besides usage nan app to research and subordinate caller worlds, arsenic good arsenic link pinch friends successful Horizon Worlds, which launched connected mobile and nan web past September. Meta says nan update won’t return distant immoderate features successful nan existing app, and you tin still usage it to group up your Quest headsets and browse nan room of apps successful nan Meta Horizon Store.

Another mini update coming to nan Meta Horizon app is nan summation of ray mode, allowing you to easy switch betwixt ray and acheronian whenever you want. Meta besides rolled retired a caller provender featuring content from creators successful nan mobile app earlier this month.

The update comes arsenic Meta looks to grow Horizon Worlds and its grip connected nan VR industry. In April, Meta announced plans to licence its headset operating system, called Horizon OS, to companies for illustration Lenovo and Asus. It will besides commencement featuring experimental App Lab titles much prominently successful nan Meta Horizon Store and is trying to make it easier for developers to bring their mobile games to Horizon OS.