Meta’s Quest 3 ‘Layout’ app lets you take measurements in mixed reality

Meta is launching an app for its Quest 3 headsets that lets you instrumentality measurements and visualize changes successful your home. The inferior app, called Layout, volition look successful the Quest 3 room arsenic portion of the v68 update.

Meta says you tin usage Layout to measurement furnishings astir your home, allowing you to get a consciousness of however overmuch country you person for a caller sofa oregon TV without taking retired your portion measure. You tin besides usage the app to spot virtual objects successful a real-world environment, arsenic good arsenic effort retired the leveling instrumentality to guarantee the representation you conscionable hung up isn’t crooked.

Along with the Layout app, the v68 update includes Meta’s experimental AI assistant that’s already connected the company’s Ray-Ban astute glasses. As seen successful Meta’s demo video, you tin inquire the AI questions astir what you’re seeing successful your real-world environment, specified arsenic what benignant of garment volition look bully with your caller brace of pants. This diagnostic is presently lone disposable successful English, and conscionable successful the US and Canada.

Another bully upgrade coming with the update is the quality to download aggregate games astatine erstwhile and negociate them from a caller “Downloads” tab successful your library. Meta is besides adding the quality to brace Touch controllers from wrong the headset (instead of from the newly-renamed Meta Horizon app), on with caller audio-level equilibrium tools.