Meta has quietly folded its Quest desktop-streaming tools into one first-party app. The Horizon OS 2.7 update rolling out since mid-August renamed the long-running Remote Desktop feature to Virtual Display and absorbed Meta Quest HDMI Link into it, giving Quest owners a single way to mirror computers and external gadgets in the headset.

Virtual Display now installs automatically on Quest headsets and connects to Windows PCs, Macs, and HDMI sources such as gaming consoles, handhelds, and phones through a compatible HDMI-to-USB-C capture adapter. Meta says the standalone HDMI Link app will eventually wind down as its duties move into Virtual Display.

The days of Quest serving as a passive monitor for a PC or Mac are over. Meta once billed its remote display system as a one-way connection, meaning controller input could not reach the mirrored computer, but this update flips that behavior on Windows and Mac alike. Touch controllers now steer the cursor and click through the remote desktop on either operating system.

Mac users get the look-to-connect prompt that Windows owners have had since late 2024. Gazing at a physical MacBook in passthrough surfaces a floating connect button over the machine, skipping the manual device picker. The Mac client also gains the same display formats as Windows, including Portrait, Compact, Wide, and Ultrawide layouts.

UploadVR tested the update on an M2 MacBook Air plus 2017 Intel iMac and MacBook Pro models running macOS Ventura. Older Intel Macs connect successfully, though the quick-connect prompt did not appear on every machine. One gap remains: a computer mouse or trackpad cannot cross from the mirrored desktop into Quest menus or other Horizon OS panels.

Source: UploadVR