Meta’s upcoming Horizon OS release offers some of the most useful features of Vision Pro, including video chat selfie cams for Avatars and the ability to share Windows with other users when you’re on Horizon Home Social Space.
Discovered by Serial DataMiner ‘Luna’, the beta version of Horizon OS V76 packs several new features, including a FaceTime-inspired avatar selfie cam that can be used in the video chat app.
Quest’s V76 update is currently available on the Public Test Channel (PTC), but Luna has implemented an avatar selfie cam in the sided version of Discord.
Meta Quest/Horizon OS V76 PTC – Avatar selfie cam running on sideloaded Discord. However, the call background is not yet enabled.
thank you @phene420 Lol to remind me to test it on other apps. https://t.co/6wkehjra8b pic.twitter.com/ezteypaop1
– Luna (@lunayian) March 23, 2025
Currently, the background is not available, Luna points out, but it is said to include multiple default options, including Abstract, Beach, Greenhouse, Home Office, Lights, Lofts and Office.
Luna has revealed a hidden tutorial for the upcoming “Navigator” system user interface overhaul on Horizon OS. The new UI system, teased at Meta Connect 2024 in September, is restaurantizing current dock-based UIs with a more traditional launcher overlay.
New: Data amended tutorial for “Navigator” system UI overhaul on Metahorizon OS.
This was discovered on a V76 PTC. My previous report on this can be found in the quote post below, but TL;DR This is currently planned at V77+ https://t.co/mttvv2ktsu. pic.twitter.com/xiwtd2gqsp
– Luna (@lunayian) March 22, 2025
The tutorial was discovered in the V76 PTC, but Luna suspects that the navigator feature will arrive as an experimental feature after the V77.
Additionally, Luna’s Datamining revealed that the string in the V76 PTC on Horizon OS “suggests that Meta is working on its ability to share Windows with other users in Horizon Home (and possibly the world).
The string in question states, “Protect the panel so that other users in your world can see it.”
Certainly, Quest users have been hoping for these features even before Vision Pro was released, but it was Apple’s $3,500 mixed reality standalone, and was an important driver for ultimately shaping console-style quests into popular computing devices.
Since the launch of Vision Pro in early 2024, Meta has released many features to guide quests closer to Visionos’ parity, including spatial video playback, pinch-style gesture control, and better pass-through for Quest 3.
But Meta’s long-standing photorealistic codec avatar is still missing, but was first teased in 2019.
Like the photorealistic avatars in Vision Pro, Meta researchers have demonstrated that codec avatars can be scanned and recreated by using smartphones.
The important limiter is the lack of eye and face tracking in Quest 3. This could mean that Meta is waiting for the next high-end headset to release a codec avatar. Completely hypothetical and yet unconfirmed Quest Pro 2.
