What you need to know
- A new Instant Replay feature is now available in Horizon Worlds, allowing players to instantly save gameplay recordings.
- Instant Replay automatically saves “select gameplay moments” in supported worlds and sends them to the Meta Quest app gallery for review as they occur.
- Meta is also testing a new “Frame Budget Boost” feature to increase performance in Horizon Worlds.
Every player had a “Did you see that?” Moment. On consoles like PS5, Xbox Series. Now Meta is testing a similar feature in its social app Horizon Worlds so players can spend more time gaming and less time recording.
Meta calls the feature “Instant Replay,” and it automatically saves “selected moments” from a world when set up by the world’s creator. When these moments are captured, they are automatically sent to the gallery on your headset – also accessible via the Meta Quest smartphone app – where you can review them and choose whether you want to share them.
In Horizon Worlds, each world that supports the new feature will have a new camera icon on the world page. You’ll also receive an assistive feature notification on your headset when you enter a world that supports Instant Replay. Meta allows players to disable the feature by going to Settings > General in the Horizon Worlds app and then selecting Off for Instant Play.
Android Central reached out to Meta to see if Instant Replay could be included in the top Meta Quest games, but they didn’t get back to us in time for publication. We will update the article as soon as we have more information.
Over the years, Meta has significantly improved the gameplay capture experience on Meta Quest headsets. Previously, recording on the original Oculus Quest was low-resolution and unreliable, but this has been improved on the Meta Quest 2. The Meta Quest 3 was launched with an option to record gameplay in 16:9 1080p quality.
Late last year, Meta released Casting 2.0 for developers, which enabled ultra-wide video recording at the expense of recording performance. This mode is only available in the Meta Quest Developer Hub. Luckily, there are some tutorials that make it relatively easy to get started.
An automatic recording feature would be the best addition yet, as it would mean players wouldn’t have to manually start a recording before starting their gaming session.
In addition to Instant Replay, Meta is testing a new “Frame Budget Boost” feature that is automatically enabled for all worlds and may improve performance in some situations. Meta encourages world builders to review the new tool and see if it makes sense to keep it enabled for their worlds.
This is all part of Meta’s push to make Horizon Worlds more accessible and available. The company began expanding Horizon Worlds beyond VR last fall, and better performance and auto-recording features could help boost the game’s popularity on similar apps like Rec Room and Roblox.
The Meta Quest 3 gets better every month with new features and an ever-growing library of must-have VR games.