Microsoft is working on bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’
to Meta Quest headsets – in other words, extending Windows apps into 3D space.
The company revealed the news at its developer conference, the
2024 Build Event. At Build, Microsoft offers comprehensive sessions for
developers as well as professionals that help them build awareness about the
company’s tools that support new Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 features.
The new Meta x Windows collaboration implies that, soon, owners
of the Meta Quest headsets could view 3D apps and digital objects via their
wearable gadgets and physically interact with these apps and objects using their
hands.
Microsoft demonstrated this interactive visualization
created by its software partner Creo, showing a digital burst 3D view of an
Xbox controller from the perspective of a Meta Quest 3 headset.
A preview is exclusively available for developers who need to sign up for the access to an unnamed “volumetric API."
