Quest's Workrooms Now Gives You Extra Windows Monitors Too

Quest’s Workrooms Now Gives You Extra Windows Monitors Too

Time Stamp: June 5, 2023 5:34 AM
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Horizon Workrooms can now give you two extra virtual monitors on Windows, a feature formerly only available for macOS.

Workrooms is Meta’s collaborative productivity app for its Quest headsets. It lets you view your PC monitor inside the headset and share your screen with teammates as avatars in a VR meeting room.

In addition to the collaboration features, Workrooms offers a solo Personal Office space, letting you choose between a few VR environments or your real room, ie. mixed reality. Unlike in the meeting spaces, your Personal Office shows up to three monitors.

On Mac Workrooms can create two entirely virtual extra monitors, but until now this feature wasn’t available on Windows. You had to have three real monitors to have a triple monitor setup, somewhat defeating the purpose.

The latest Workrooms update brings the feature to Windows too. Your Quest 2 or Quest Pro can effectively turn your single-screen laptop into a triple monitor setup. This is also possible with the third party app Immersed.

We should note that even Meta’s $1000 work-focused Quest Pro doesn’t really have sufficient angular resolution to make this a practical replacement for real monitors for most people though. However, leaked specs of the ultra premium headset that Apple will seemingly reveal today suggest it will, and Apple will reportedly have its own solution for viewing your Mac’s display in VR and AR too.

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