What you should know
- Many customers are reporting that the choice to forged to a Chromecast has been removed from their Meta Quest headsets.
- Official documentation now states that “Chromecast is not totally supported with Meta Quest.”
- Meta now recommends casting to a cellphone then mirroring to your gadget of selection.
Ever since the authentic Meta Quest, it has been straightforward to point out everybody what you are doing in VR by casting to a Chromecast-enabled TV. Unfortunately, many customers on social media have been reporting that the function is not out there, leaving Meta Quest gamers with the choice to solely forged to a smartphone or a pc.
We’ve written Meta about the situation however did not hear again in time for publishing. Official documentation now states that “Chromecast is not totally supported with Meta Quest,” leaving little doubt that Meta is slowly eradicating this key function on headsets like the Meta Quest 3 for some purpose.
Instead of instantly casting to a Chromecast-enabled TV out of your headset, Meta now needs gamers to first forged to the Meta Quest app on their smartphone or pill. Once you see gameplay casting seem, Meta then recommends mirroring your gadget’s show to the bigger display of your selection, as displayed in the photograph above.
While this provides a number of steps to what was once a easy casting course of, there are just a few optimistic factors to the new course of. Casing to the Meta Quest app permits VR gamers to nonetheless take screenshots and file movies. Casting on to a Chromecast disabled this function. Recording can be performed instantly from the Meta Quest app on a cellphone or pill.
This additionally means Meta Quest headsets can forged gameplay on Apple, Samsung, Miracast, and different varieties of units as an alternative of being relegated to only Google Chromecasts. Additionally, this methodology appears to be extra dependable than direct Chromecasting, as direct Chromecasting was vulnerable to crashing randomly.
Casting is one of the first issues it’s best to do along with your Meta Quest 3 while you get it, however we’re nonetheless unsure why Meta seems to be to be eradicating the function as an alternative of encouraging gamers to make use of the new methodology, as an alternative. Until we hear for positive, keep on with utilizing the app first.
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