Meta revealed at Connect today that it’s working with Microsoft to bring its Quest platform better wireless pairing with Windows 11 PCs, aiming to make using a PC with Quest a more seamless experience.

“Soon you’re going to be able to easily connect to any Windows 11 PC. You just look at keyboard and it will start pairing,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on stage.

When it arrives, we still don’t know beyond “soon”, but Zuckerberg says it will support multiple virtual displays, and make Quest more of a “natural extension of your PC.”

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In the teaser, a user is seen dragging windows across multiple virtual monitors, which would be a departure from the Remote Desktop experience afforded by Air Link.

“This is the path to building a general computing platform,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s not just games, although [Quest] is really good at that. You’re also going to be to use it for apps, watching videos, and all of the different things you would do with a general purpose computer. Quest is the full package.”

We’re here at Meta Connect 2024, so we’re filling in details as they arrive. Check back soon for more.

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Scott Hayden
Well before the first modern XR products hit the market, Scott recognized the potential of the technology and set out to understand and document its growth. He has been professionally reporting on the space for nearly a decade as Editor at Road to VR, authoring more than 4,000 articles on the topic. Scott brings that seasoned insight to his reporting from major industry events across the globe.
  • ViRGiN

    Renji Bijoy from Immersed/Visor enters panic mode.

  • Arno van Wingerde

    Hm, I still would only work with my headset on in an extremely narrow number of use cases… Monitor any time! Perhaps during a flight or so, but even there…

  • Ondrej

    Great they are making this feature, BUT:

    “This is the path to building a general computing platform,”

    Since when pairing is general compute? You are not computing anything here.

    What happened to "XR will replace laptops?"
    oh, right, the XR ecosystems are purposefully so dumbed down and anticonsumer they need to stream things form actual computers.

    At least it's not as bad as on AVP where you have M2 chip inside that could run everything that runs on mac, but doesn't, because Apple is evil.

    It's funny how millions of people own smartphones more powerful than their laptops and can't use them for many things, because, again, these corporations are evil.

  • Totius

    I believe they should aim to bypass completely PCs.. since standalone headset do not have enough power to handle hugely multitasking workloads, they should put your windows system in the clouds