Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to Meta’s Quest VR platform. The two corporations introduced the partnership at Meta’s Connect occasion on Tuesday however didn’t announce a launch date.

With Xbox Cloud Gaming, “You’ll be able to play 2D games with your Xbox controller projected on a massive screen on Quest,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated in the course of the occasion’s keynote.

You gained’t all of a sudden be capable to play Halo Infinite as a VR-native recreation, however the app might make for a extra immersive expertise whereas taking part in any of the tons of of video games within the huge Xbox Cloud Gaming library because you’ll be seeing your recreation on an enormous digital display screen. (And it provides you one other approach to play your video games if another person is hogging the lounge TV.) It’s additionally a means for Microsoft to continue to grow in cloud gaming, which it virtually actually desires to push additional into, on condition that Google Stadia will quickly be off the board.

Meta and Microsoft are additionally engaged on higher integration of the Quest and plenty of Microsoft platforms, together with the Microsoft Teams office chat app in addition to the Microsoft 365 suite of productiveness apps.