{"id":165486,"date":"2023-06-10T07:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T12:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-test-puts-reels-on-the-quest"},"modified":"2023-06-10T07:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T12:26:32","slug":"meta-test-puts-reels-on-the-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-test-puts-reels-on-the-quest","title":{"rendered":"Meta test puts Reels on the Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reels started as Instagram\u2019s solution for competing with TikTok and soon launched on sister-site Facebook \u2014 a natural expansion. Meta is now testing Reels on a less expected medium: the Meta Quest<\/a>. Its VR headset works for internet browsing, watching movies, games and more \u2014 but the addition of typically-vertical Reels<\/a> presents a different viewing experience than these more malleable (and typically screen-wide) options.<\/p>\n

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the update through a 13-second video on Meta\u2019s Instagram Channel. It featured a Reel from influencer Austin Sprinz\u2019s Instagram account in which he visited the world\u2019s deepest pool. The immersive video is a good choice for VR, taking the viewer underwater into a seemingly bottomless space \u2014 and is certainly better than a cooking or dance Reel.<\/p>\n

The Reels update comes ahead of Meta Quest 3\u2019s fall release<\/a> and follows Apple\u2019s new AR\/VR Vision Pro headset<\/a> announcement. Though, with Quest 3\u2019s pricing starting at $499, compared to the Vision Pro\u2019s $3,499, the pair don\u2019t exactly fall into the same category. Meta\u2019s VR headset line first launched as Oculus Quest and subsequently Oculus Quest 2 before the second-generation model was rebranded as Meta Quest 2<\/a>. The Meta Quest Pro<\/a> followed soon after the name change. As for Reels, there\u2019s no timeline for if and when it will leave the testing phase and become available across Meta Quest headsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reels started as Instagram\u2019s solution for competing with TikTok and soon launched on sister-site Facebook \u2014 a natural expansion. Meta is now testing Reels on a less expected medium: the Meta Quest. Its VR headset works for internet browsing, watching movies, games and more \u2014 but the addition of typically-vertical Reels presents a different viewing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,418,8,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-internet","category-space","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}