Meta Quest apps that feel made for the headset.

Why build for Meta Quest

Meta Quest headsets are standalone: the computer is inside the headset. There’s no PC to buy, no cables and no base stations to set up, so you can hand one to a trainee, a customer or a visitor and they’re inside your experience within seconds. That makes Quest the practical choice for most training, sales and event projects.

The trade-off is performance. Quest runs on a mobile chip, so a scene that would be easy on a gaming PC has to be designed carefully to stay smooth on a headset. Smooth matters more in VR than anywhere else, because dropped frames make people feel unwell.

VR or mixed reality?

Quest 3 and 3S show the real world in colour through their cameras, called passthrough. That opens up two kinds of app.

Virtual reality replaces the room with somewhere else. It’s the right choice when people need to be in a place they can’t easily reach: ScannerVR puts trainees in a warehouse to practise LiDAR scanning, and the High-Rise VR Tour lets people walk around a building that isn’t finished yet.

Mixed reality keeps the real room and adds to it. MR Escape Room turns the player’s own space into a puzzle game on Quest 3, using passthrough, spatial anchors so objects stay where they were placed, and hand tracking so players can reach out and touch things.

Built to run smoothly on the headset

• Performance first. We profile on real Quest hardware from the first build. ScannerVR holds 72 fps standalone, using URP with baked lighting.
• Only load what’s needed. Large scenes load in the background while people see progress, instead of freezing the headset.
• Comfortable movement. Teleporting and smooth locomotion options, and short onboarding so first-time users aren’t lost.
• Clear interaction. Grab, point and press with hands or controllers, confirmed by sound and haptics. VR Review Hub uses ray-based selection and 3D menus that live inside the scene.

What we’ve built for Quest

VR Review Hub is a photoreal product showroom for Quest 3 and 3S, with audio reviews tied to each product and diegetic 3D menus people grab and rotate. The High-Rise VR Tour is an optimised standalone Quest 3 walkthrough with a real-time construction animation. KairosVR, built in Unreal Engine 5.6, runs across three synchronised Quest 3 stations as a guided experience.

Getting it onto headsets

For a public release, apps go on the Meta Horizon Store. Since 2024 that has also included the apps that used to be in App Lab. For internal use, release channels let you invite specific people to install a build, which suits staff training and testing. Meta stopped selling its business headset program in February 2026, so for larger fleets we’ll talk through the device-management options that fit your setup.