{"id":27970,"date":"2025-09-20T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:53:11","slug":"quest-is-getting-an-official-discord-app-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27970\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest is Getting an Official ‘Discord’ App Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said last May that he would \u201clove\u201d<\/a> for Quest to have some sort of Discord integration, although it seemed it was up to Discord to make the first move. At Connect this week, Meta announced Discord is officially coming to Quest next year.<\/p>\n

While Quest users can technically log into Discord via Quest\u2019s web browser, it\u2019s far from perfect. But in 2026, Discord says a native window app is coming to Quest, which ought to make multitasking even easier. Those window apps allow users to keep apps in view while playing VR games, meaning you don\u2019t need to exit or pause the game in progress.<\/p>\n

Meta calls Discord on Quest a \u201cmassive opportunity for VR developers,\u201d thanks to the messaging platform\u2019s wide user base among gamers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it: Discord is home to a highly engaged community of more than 200 million monthly active players who spend a combined 1.9 billion hours playing games each month across thousands of titles on PC alone,\u201d Meta says in a developer blog post<\/a>. \u201cWith the launch of the Discord app on Quest, VR devs will have an incredible discoverability engine at their disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither company has confirmed anything beyond basic multitasking, however a native app release could point to some greater functionality that PC players already enjoy. Game presence support, or automatically showing what game you\u2019re currently playing to other Discord users, could be on the list. We\u2019re also hoping for improved performance, persistence, and possibly system-level notifications for things like messages and calls.<\/p>\n

Still, some of the top wishlist items may be out of reach. While we\u2019ll be waiting for the full release in 2026 to tell, it\u2019s unlikely users will be able to stream headset POV to Discord, either as a game stream or as a video chat input. Another reach may be access to Quest\u2019s \u2018avatar selfie cam\u2019<\/a> for Discord video chats, which would require the company to integrate Camera2 or CameraX API.<\/p>\n

Something else you probably shouldn\u2019t expect: the ability to invite friends to VR games through Discord, which only a handful of desktop games support on Discord at the moment. Whatever the case, we\u2019re holding out hope for the full-fat Discord users experience, which we should learn about more in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said last May that he would \u201clove\u201d for Quest to have some sort of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,46,125,340,341,342],"class_list":["post-27970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}