The YouTube app on Meta Quest is getting a nice upgrade: instead of only being a way to watch videos by yourself, the app will now let you co-watch videos with up to seven other people.
The YouTube app on Quest will let you co-watch videos with friends in VR
You’ll be able to watch videos with up to seven other people.
You’ll be able to watch videos with up to seven other people.
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To turn on the feature, which is launching in beta, make sure you have the latest version of the YouTube app and look for the “Co-watch” icon at the top of the screen (it looks like three people grouped together). Select that, and then in the window that pops up, select “Invite people” and then you can invite people from your followers list to watch things with you. (The people you invite will also have to follow you back.)
There are a few limitations. You can only co-watch 2D content, for example. And if you want to watch paid content like a movie, every person that’s co-watching will have to separately pay for it. But the co-watching still seems like a useful way to hang out with people in VR if you’d rather not hang out in Horizon Worlds. And it might feel less strange than Apple’s Spatial Personas for the Vision Pro.
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