Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth mentioned final Might that he would “love” for Quest to have some kind of Discord integration, though it appeared it was as much as Discord to make the primary transfer. At Join this week, Meta introduced Discord is formally coming to Quest subsequent 12 months.
Whereas Quest customers can technically log into Discord by way of Quest’s net browser, it’s removed from excellent. However in 2026, Discord says a local window app is coming to Quest, which should make multitasking even simpler. These window apps enable customers to maintain apps in view whereas taking part in VR video games, which means you don’t must exit or pause the sport in progress.
Meta calls Discord on Quest a “large alternative for VR builders,” because of the messaging platform’s large consumer base amongst avid gamers.
“Give it some thought: Discord is residence to a extremely engaged neighborhood of greater than 200 million month-to-month energetic gamers who spend a mixed 1.9 billion hours taking part in video games every month throughout 1000’s of titles on PC alone,” Meta says in a developer weblog put up. “With the launch of the Discord app on Quest, VR devs may have an unbelievable discoverability engine at their disposal.”
Neither firm has confirmed something past primary multitasking, nevertheless a local app launch might level to some better performance that PC gamers already get pleasure from. Sport presence assist, or robotically displaying what sport you’re at present taking part in to different Discord customers, could possibly be on the record. We’re additionally hoping for improved efficiency, persistence, and probably system-level notifications for issues like messages and calls.
Nonetheless, a number of the high wishlist objects could also be out of attain. Whereas we’ll be ready for the total launch in 2026 to inform, it’s unlikely customers will have the ability to stream headset POV to Discord, both as a sport stream or as a video chat enter. One other attain could also be entry to Quest’s ‘avatar selfie cam’ for Discord video chats, which might require the corporate to combine Camera2 or CameraX API.
One thing else you in all probability shouldn’t anticipate: the power to ask associates to VR video games via Discord, which solely a handful of desktop video games assist on Discord in the meanwhile. Regardless of the case, we’re holding out hope for the full-fat Discord customers expertise, which we must always find out about extra within the coming months.
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