Reality Browser is a full featured Internet Browser in Augmented Reality.
Create browser instances in thin air and position them anywhere in your room. Interact with everything on the internet.
Take Reality Browser anywhere. Runs entirely on the Quest - no PC necessary.
• Put YouTube on your wall and scale it to the size of a cinema screen. • Place your X (twitter) feed on your desk • Watch videos on the ceiling • Keep your chats, forums and discussions at your finger tips.
Wow, how cool is that!!! I mainly use this browser to watch TV, Prime Video and YouTube in passthrough mode. It's awesome! For example, I use the large main screen at the front and a smaller one on the right with a fireplace burning in it. On the left is a wide screen that simulates a window with a wonderful view.
I didn't rub Aladdin's lamp, but I still have three wishes: 1) Netflix login doesn't work for me. It would be great if you could fix it. 2) The laser pointer is too small on large screens and is barely visible. 3) My biggest wish is a tool for precisely aligning the individual screens. For example, it is very difficult to align a large screen exactly straight freehand.
Exciting but needs work. The free web browser placement is the compelling feature here, and at its core that feature works. I can place screens where I want in my room and it just works.
My main issue with it is that you can't have simultaneous playback between windows. So for example I cannot play a movie while also streaming a live hockey game in a side window; when one video is played, the other is paused.
A lesser issue is with screen placement. Right now, grabbing a screen brings it to your hand position and locks it there. If you are on the couch and want the screen on a wall, you must physically get up, walk over to your wall and place the screen. If the screen is large enough, it is difficult to see if you've oriented it how you want toward your sitting position. It would greatly simplify placement if grabbed screens kept their relative starting positions, and if you could.offset their position with the right thumbstick.
I hope the developer continues to improve it. If it can be dialed in, I would consider this a must-have app.
Just a few accessibility nitpicks. ✅I like how I am able to freely resize and place browser windows. I am nearsighted, and love being able to plant a mega sized E*Trade window on a wall.
❌It would be "better" if it also supported a "dark mode." For example, the fonts on the help screens would be more readable, if a dark mode was supported.
❌It would also be nice if the virtual keyboard supported hand tracking.
The future of "stand-up desks". This app has some serious potential to change how we interact with the web. Get steps in by putting browsers around your physical space.
It's also a great tool for doing tutorials or following along. Like workouts, cooking etc. Just throw up a screen where you need it and load your content or video and get to it. It's great.
There are some minor details that need to be improved or added, and I hope these improvements will come soon in an update.
1. The ability to move the browser in 3d space using the controller, without walking around to place them. In, out, up, down, left, right, rotate. Could be integrated using arrows at the top of the browser window when hovered over.
2. Retain the size of curser point regardless of distance from browser window. When you place browsers across the room the pointer becomes almost too small to see.
3. Either include the system keyboard or include swipe typing and speech to text on the app keyboard. The current keyboard is tedious to type with.
4. A menu setting to request the desktop version of a website.
5. Ability to save a workspace. It would be amazing to be able to set up windows that can be loaded with ease or change between workspaces with ease. At minimum it could operate simply like traditional browsers that launch specified tabs that you can quickly place where you want them.
6. Right click.
7. Ability to open image direct links or full screen display. It's nice to be able to throw an image into your space.
8. Browser crashing issues - if browsers are open for a while they will blank out to a white screen and not be able to be reloaded. The keyboard also does the same thing at times.
9. Ability to load and use google docs.
While the app isn't perfect it's on its way. This could be a big game changer. Especially for people that can't access multiple physical monitors.
Read comments, what I want in developmen. Happy with what I see so far. I agree with what others are recommending. As an immersed power user, these features should be at the forefront.
1. Keyboard / mouse support 2. Able to move monitors without physically moving them. 3. Having different backgrounds except passthrough 4. Tied for 3rd, tabs
Overall you may save me from having to buy a quest 3 (using pro). Thank you!
Comparison with Transcend XR. I purchased both Reality Browser and Transcend XR and thought they were very similar apps and each had its own advantages and disadvantages, but then I realized they were developed by the same developer. I don't know why they didn't include Transcend XR's features in this app. Or vice versa.
Cool browser but will not play Netflix. It is a really cool browser. A little buggy at times like clicking a link and it opens a blank page with the actual link going through.
Buy all in all very decent and works very well.
For some reason will not play Netflix videos. When you try play it days this title is not available for streaming. Same video plays perfectly on phone and smart tvs.
Nice to have would be if the floating window could be made to follow as you walk around.
Firefox based browser lacking features. The experience is alright, but it's lacking support for extensions which makes it unusable to me (can't go on the internet without an adblocker).
Also based on their twitter history and barebones website it looks like the project has been abandoned
A very neat idea, but with a fatal flaw…. Let's get the praise out of the way first; This browser is a good use of augmented reality! I like spawning browser windows then “attaching” them to my walls. (Without Guardian, this would be a cool app to turn every room of a house into its own physical website location, too.)
HOWEVER, this app has a really annoying glitch which makes it almost unusable. If I wait around ten minutes, most windows break. I mean, they turn completely white (with their address bar and keyboard still visible), but I can't see the webpages anymore, even if I use the address bar to change pages.
Even cloning a window doesn't fix the glitch, so I have to exit then open the app again to use the browser for ten more minutes before it happens again. If this wasn't an issue, I would recommend this app, but in its current state, I cannot. This glitch NEEDS to be fixed. (If it helps, i use a Meta Quest 2.) Also, Reality Browser could use more settings. Most are just privacy-related things that I don't care about…
A Chromebook for your head ! This is great, being able to spawn any number of browser screens around you really makes it possible to work and live in the headset.
I wish we could resize the window aspects though, a big tall portrait screen would be useful.
Drops a star for the issue with windows going white, and only fix is to exit and restart the app. I understand this is quest2 resources, but would be better to have a restart button on each browser, or optionally suspend a browser when you it loses focus.
But overall, this is exactly what browsing on a headset should be !
Multiple videos at once please. I just bought the app. Is there a way to watch a video on multiple windows ? I wanna put games on multiple windows but once 1 is on then the other one pauses.
The regular meta browser can do it so I’m sure there is a way. Thank u!!
Tutorial. I can't close windows, is there a tutorial, or a button configuration, just goes right into app. Pushing buttons grabs, and opens windows, but how do I close one? What do all my buttons do? Also a shame there is no hand tracking to just type on these keyboards instead on click on every letter
Slow. I used it and it was evident that the performance is really slow (compared with Firefox vr and consider that that application had no updates anymore)
Some advice. As it is easy for us to change the direction of the window, it will be useful if we can change the aspect ratio, or switch between horizon view and vertial view. And the surrouding view is also an essential founction.
PLEASE ADD NETFLIX SUPPORT. This browser is fast and well made, but could you PLEASE add support for Netflix. It says error when I try to play a Netflix video. I’ve been trying to find a way to stream Netflix from my standalone quest 2 other than the official Netflix app that only streams in sd. PLEASE do this soon! Please read!
Thank the Lord and Amen! 🤣. I actually own a Chromebook and to my Surprise just realized that I can't use any of the virtual desktops that includes horizon workrooms which I had already had set up because they are strictly windows and Apple OS (Don't even get me started on the loss of revenue All those students were working from home really high school students not loving horizon work rooms together with their friends?). I just recently started a new job for a non-profit where I don't have a work laptop so I'm working from a Chromebook and I like using my virtual office on my quest. So thank you.
Some things that I'd love to see: copy button in the URL bar, larger area I guess for the hidden or unhidden keyboard view? For me it seems super precise especially when you're on the edge trying to copy and paste something out of the browser it'll hide and unhide constantly... I don't think there's enough leeway there. Fields don't do well in this browser either. For instance anything in a pop-up window that has a form that has dropdown fields will not open. Or a dropdown window with a field...for instance find your store ZIP code you can't type in it; won't allow you to. Just little simple things that would make life easier. But thank you very much I really needed something like this and I'm really glad that I accidentally just happened to run across it!
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