Motorola phone owners will soon be able to wirelessly see and use their device in VR on Quest’s Horizon OS.
Announced in a guest appearance by Mark Zuckerberg at Lenovo Tech World 2024, Motorola’s Smart Connect app is coming to Horizon OS as a 2D app “in the near future”.
Zuckerberg said this will let you “interact with any apps on your phone and a much bigger virtual screen”, though only with Motorola phones.
Motorola has around 5% smartphone market share globally and around 10% in the US. This news will not affect the majority. It’s not clear if Motorola’s solution would support DRM-protected content like Netflix or Disney+ that could be used to download content while offline. You can already view almost any phone in Horizon OS using a USB-C cable via
With visionOS 2, but it doesn’t support the HDCP DRM system.
Zuckerberg also confirmed that Lenovo, Motorola’s parent company, is still working on multiple Horizon OS headsets of its own, originally Meta Quest HDMI Link.
Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From ASUS & Lenovo
Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third-party headset makers, including ASUS and Lenovo.
There’s no timeline for when we’ll see the first Lenovo Horizon OS headset though, and given there wasn’t a tease at Lenovo Tech World 2024 we likely won’t see one until 2025 at the earliest.announced back in April