The YouTube app on Quest will let you co-watch videos with friends in VR

The YouTube app connected Meta Quest is getting a bully upgrade: alternatively of lone being a mode to ticker videos by yourself, the app volition present fto you co-watch videos with up to 7 different people.

To crook connected the feature, which is launching successful beta, marque definite you person the latest mentation of the YouTube app and look for the “Co-watch” icon astatine the apical of the surface (it looks similar 3 radical grouped together). Select that, and past successful the model that pops up, prime “Invite people” and past you tin invitation radical from your followers database to ticker things with you. (The radical you invitation volition besides person to travel you back.)

There are a fewer limitations. You tin lone co-watch 2D content, for example. And if you privation to ticker paid contented similar a movie, each idiosyncratic that’s co-watching volition person to separately wage for it. But the co-watching inactive seems similar a utile mode to bent retired with radical successful VR if you’d alternatively not hang retired successful Horizon Worlds. And it mightiness consciousness little unusual than Apple’s Spatial Personas for the Vision Pro.