NVIDIA announced at CES 2025 that its extending support for its cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW to Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico headsets.

The announcement doesn’t appear to include support for VR cloud gaming—i.e. the ability to play play VR-native titles—but rather access to standard games playable across Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and handheld gaming devices.

Users on Vision Pro, Quest 3/S and Pico headsets will be able to stream games via GeForce NOW via browsers when the version 2.0.70 update starts rolling out later this month, Nvidia says.

When it does arrive, Nvidia says we can expect “all the bells and whistles of NVIDIA technologies, including ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS.” GeForce NOW for VR headsets is said to include support for gamepad-compatible titles on a “massive virtual screen.”

Notably, Nvidia’s cloud gaming service offers users limited access for free, and greater, higher-quality access across various daily passes and monthly subscription options. It also boasts over 2,000 titles in its library.

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Nvidia isn’t the first to offer cloud gaming to standalone VR devices. In 2022, Pluto VR brought its short-lived cloud gaming service to Quest. Called PlutoSphere, the companion app was pulled from the store in early 2024 amid a wider crackdown by Meta to remove unapproved cloud streaming services.

Consequently, Microsoft was given the green light to bring its Xbox Cloud Gaming and Game Pass library to Quest in late 2023.

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Scott Hayden
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  • Yeshaya

    You'd need a regular controller for this, right? I think Quest controllers are a couple face buttons combined shy from the full input capacity of an Xbox or PS controller. In general think this really strengthens the case for VR as a default "flatscreen" medium for budget gamers. Instead of spending $300 on a cheap laptop/chromebook, just get a Quest 3s and have a jumbo UHD screen that travels

    • Michael Speth

      Agree, the controllers are not appropriate for flatscreen games in general.

      I think the major drawback to any of these HMDs is comfort. Playing flatscreen games on a monitor is going to be much more comfortable and ergonomic than playing on an HMD.

      Compare to other streaming services like Playstation Portable, for $200 USD this blows away any HMD for flat screen gaming.

  • Arno van Wingerde

    Now, could you also play PCVR games reliably this way? Not having to buy a gaming PC removes a major hurdle for me – even if it has more latency. If I like it, but find the latency a problem, I at least know that building a game PC will actually pay off… before spending $3000 or so!

  • Mark Lapasa

    I beat Cyberpunk 2077 in Quest 2 on Stadia when it was around, using a Stadia controller.

    Exciting to see GeForce now to fill the gap in streaming gaming on VR headsets.

    • Andrew Jakobs

      Amazon's luna is also an equivilent of stadia.

      • Mark Lapasa

        tbh. I've never heard of luna. Never ever heard anyone talk about it.

        Although my Samsung TV has Geforce Now built in as well as that Xbox cloud.

    • Hey, I beat "Cyberpunk 2077" on Stadia, too!!

      FULL DISCLOSURE: No, I didn't.

      • Mark Lapasa

        I hoping you did. Getting a braindance in VR is something special.

  • Look, is Avalanche coming or not …??

    I'm sick-up & fed with the explanationless holdup!!

  • xyzs

    Yeah but no.
    I am tired of paying so many subscriptions BS instead of just having things done locally. This is pushing people to just be consumers to an exterme level.
    You don't own your game copy, you don't know where is is computed, you pay monthly to be able to run it, and you need of course to get a good internet plan to have a mediocre latency.
    I prefer to invest $1000 every 5 years for a good gpu and run it by myself, it's cheeper on the long run, I wenjoy my hardware, and I can even get money by reselling it.

    • Arno van Wingerde

      But for trying out PCVR, it is hard to beat this, say to run MSFS, before spending 2000 on on 4080 based PC.

      • NicoleJsd

        4090 is actually not enough to run msfs without jagged motion smoothing at 90fps at high/ultra. It’s more cpu bottleneck anyway. I personally wait for 10800x3d or the like to upgrade from 7800x3d.

        I mean 2020msfs of course 24 is a distant future when it will be comfortably playable in VR

  • guest

    Clouds are inherently latent. It doesn't matter how much bandwidth it has!

  • NicoleJsd

    They are too busy snorting coke and watching the cash roll in to mop the comments. Can’t blame them, I’d choose that too vs some janitor duty