The Bigscreen app’s new Cloud Browser characteristic provides a synchronized browser with out a PC, for a price.
It was already attainable to share your PC display screen to others in a Bigscreen room, or to cowatch YouTube, native movies, or “channels” with out a PC.
Because the title suggests, the brand new Cloud Browser runs within the cloud and streams synchronized to every person within the session, which means it provides you net screensharing standalone on Quest, with out a PC.
Bigscreen says Cloud Browser can be utilized with nearly any web site, together with video companies like PLEX or web-based video games, except for platforms that use DRM, reminiscent of Netflix and Disney+. These aren’t supported.
Bigscreen’s Cloud Browser is offered totally free for the primary two hours you ever use it, as a trial. After, it is priced at $1.99 for a day move or $9.99 for a 30-day move.
To be clear, solely the host must pay, not everybody else within the session.
The characteristic brings a functionality in any other case unavailable on Meta’s Horizon OS platform. Apple’s visionOS provides screensharing at any time throughout FaceTime periods, together with with its practical Spatial Personas. However Apple’s providing requires $3500 headsets, for now, whereas Bigscreen Cloud Browser works on the brand new $300 Quest 3S, in addition to the roughly 20 million Quest 2 headsets already in client palms.
Yow will discover the Bigscreen app for Quest on the Horizon Retailer.
