Quest 3 house owners within the US can attempt photorealistic scenes by way of Meta’s new Horizon Hyperscape demo app.
The app was launched at the moment at Meta Join. It presents six photorealistic scenes, six studios and a Meta HQ convention room. The scenes are absolutely volumetric, which means you may transfer round them with positional monitoring.
Meta describes these scenes as “digital replicas”, and says they have been scanned utilizing cellphones, plus postprocessing within the cloud. It would not disclose the expertise used to scan and render the scenes, however it seems to be Gaussian splatting, which can also be obtainable on Quest 3 within the app Gracia.
UploadVR’s Don Hopper tried Horizon Hyperscape and located it to be considerably larger high quality than Gracia, with a “stark distinction” in visible readability.
The scenes seem like streamed from the cloud, given the app tells some customers they want a stronger web connection, and the Android bundle identify references Meta’s long-in-the-works Challenge Avalanche PC VR streaming tech.
Horizon Hyperscape will even run on the brand new Quest 3S when it is obtainable.
In some unspecified time in the future sooner or later Meta plans to permit customers to scan their very own areas, as is feasible with Varjo Teleport in closed beta, however the firm did not present a timeline for this.
