Meta will let you use a Quest VR headset to turn your real-world space into a virtual world

Gordon Ramsay’s location room arsenic made by Hyperscape.

Meta is rolling retired tech that lets you seizure a real-world abstraction with a Quest VR headset truthful you tin make a digital, photorealistic VR replica. The institution calls the tech “Hyperscape,” and arsenic portion of a gradual rollout opening today, users volition beryllium capable to usage the beta Hyperscape Capture app with their Quest 3 oregon Quest 3S to marque the virtual copies. Initially, you’ll lone beryllium capable to sojourn the rooms you’ve scanned by yourself, but Meta says that users volition beryllium capable to sojourn rooms unneurotic by sharing a backstage nexus sometime “soon.”

Meta showed disconnected Hyperscape arsenic portion of a demo introduced astatine Connect 2024 past year, and portion it seems similar the tech is inactive somewhat early, it’s wide that the institution sees virtual recreations of existent environments arsenic a perchance notable usage lawsuit for VR and its metaverse ambitions. (Though those ambitions person seemingly taken a back spot to AI arsenic of late.) You tin spot a Meta-provided illustration of Hyperscape successful the GIF beneath that recreates Gordon Ramsay’s location kitchen.

I toured immoderate prescanned rooms astatine Connect 2025, including Ramsay’s kitchen. The rooms looked a batch similar real-life rooms, and it was amusive to get up adjacent to details similar nutrient connected a array oregon a stack of books. The illusion would interruption down if you got excessively adjacent to things — substance connected a “paper” New York Times was readable, but sometimes a small smudgy — but overall, I was truly impressed with the scans.

I besides tried a little demo of the seizure app. Wearing a Quest 3 headset, I walked and looked astir a room, and arsenic I did, a virtual mesh started to look implicit objects I was facing. After astir a three-minute scan of the room, the app prompted maine to determination person to objects. That made the mesh commencement to disappear, which was a clever mode to amusement what I had “scanned” successful detail. But I didn’t get to decorativeness that portion earlier a Meta rep ended the demo.

Meta says that aft you implicit a afloat scan, it’s uploaded to the unreality to process implicit the people of a fewer hours earlier you tin acquisition the scan for yourself.