NVIDIA GeForce NOW is Coming Soon to Meta Quest, Vision Pro, and Pico Headsets

NVIDIA announced that its cloud gaming service GeForce NOW will soon work on virtual and mixed reality headsets, including Apple Vision Pro.

The graphics giant said that GeForce NOW adds support for multiple headsets, including Apple’s Vision Pro spatial computer, Meta’s latest Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets, and Pico virtual and mixed reality devices when the v2.0.70 update arrives later this month. The company did not provide a clearer timeline. NVIDIA is catching up with Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service, which available now on Quest devices. GeForce NOW is believed to be the first game streaming service officially available on Apple Vision Pro.

Cloud gaming uses the power of the Internet and servers equipped with powerful hardware to move all processing to the cloud, delivering gameplay to connected clients via video streams. This approach allows devices that don’t have powerful GPUs to run the latest games, although network latency can be an issue in some networks and regions.

NVIDIA also said that GeForce NOW will support “gamepad-compatible games” on the headsets. As you know, Vision Pro uses eye tracking and hand gestures for interaction. Although Vision Pro doesn’t come with motion controllers, you can easily a pair of game controllers from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to the headset. Vision Pro will soon be able to support true virtual reality game controllers such as Sony’s PlayStation VR2. according to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg.

GeForce NOW on Vision Pro, Quest and Pico devices includes “all the bells and whistles of NVIDIA technologies, including ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS,” the company confirmed. GeForce NOW members talk about performance and Final subscriptions can “use RTX and DLSS technologies in supported games” for even better graphics quality.

NVIDIA said that owners of the aforementioned headsets will be able to play cloud games by visiting GeForce NOW website Using a supported browser after the update is released. For Vision Pro owners, this means the ability to play streaming games in a special VisionOS environment on a virtual 100-foot screen.

GeForce NOW is available on other Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad through the mobile version of Safari, but the installation process leaves a lot to be desired since each cloud game must first be added to your library as a progressive web app (PWA). It’s interesting that NVIDIA hasn’t bothered to release native GeForce NOW apps for Apple platforms, even though Apple now allows game streaming apps on the App Store.

NVIDIA offers many GeForce NOW subscription levels with different levels of graphics quality. The Performance tier offers eight vCPUs, 1440p GeForce RTX graphics, and 6-hour sessions for $10 per month or $50 for six months. Compare that to the Ultimate tier ($20 per month or $100 for six months), which doubles the number of vCPUs, provides GeForce RTX 4080 graphics at 4K resolution, increases session duration to eight hours, and provides support for DLSS 3, NVIDIA Reflex. and cloud G-Sync. Subscriptions come with other benefits, such as priority queuing and access to more games. There is also a free, ad-supported tier for those who want to try the service before subscribing.

Source: NVIDIA