GeForce Now On Quest 3, Pico & Apple Vision Pro Gets 90 FPS Streaming
GeForce Now in the web browsers of Meta Quest 3, Pico and Apple Vision Pro headsets now streams at up to 90 FPS for Ultimate subscribers.
If you weren’t aware, just over a year ago GeForce Now got official support for the web browsers of Quest 3, Quest 3S, Pico 4, Pico 4 Ultra and Apple Vision Pro.
GeForce Now lets you play supported flatscreen PC games you already own on Steam, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Store, Microsoft Store, EA’s store, or GOG, without a PC. It works on a range of devices including laptops, tablets, smartphones, and supported TVs and streaming devices, as well as those standalone XR headsets.
| Free | Performance ($10/month) |
Ultimate ($20/month) |
|
| Ad-Free | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Session Length | 1 hour | 6 hours | 8 hours |
| Quality | 1080p | 1440p | 4K |
| Render Rate & Streaming Rate |
60 FPS 60 FPS |
60 FPS 60 FPS |
240 FPS 90 FPS |
| GPU | “Basic” | “GeForce RTX” | RTX 5080 |
| vCPU & DRAM |
4 cores 14GB |
8 cores 28GB |
16 cores 56GB |
| Settings Persist | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
The service is offered in three tiers: Free, Performance, and Ultimate.
Free is ad-supported and limited to 1080p, with a 1-hour maximum session time and basic system specs such as 4 vCPU cores and 14GB of RAM. The $10/month Performance tier removes ads and streams at 1440p with an RTX GPU and double the vCPU cores and RAM, while the $20/month Ultimate tier renders at up to 4K 240 FPS and now streams at 90FPS, with quadruple the vCPU and RAM of the free tier and an RTX 5080 equivalent GPU handling rendering for some titles, with an RTX 4080 for other less demanding ones.
On the default Balanced quality mode, the Ultimate tier will stream to headsets at 1080p 90FPS. By switching to Custom mode, you can increase this to 1440p 90FPS on Quest and Pico, or 4K 90FPS on Apple Vision Pro headsets.
Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes To Meta Quest
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available for Quest headsets.
On Quest, GeForce Now is not the only officially available cloud flatscreen gaming service, as Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming has been around since late 2023. Xbox Cloud Gaming offers a catalog of Xbox games with the subscription, as well as select titles you own on Xbox.
But what neither GeForce Now nor Xbox Cloud Gaming do is truly take advantage of the stereoscopic nature of headsets by offering their flatscreen library in 3D. Traditionally, this would require injection or an SDK for developers. But with advances in AI, either Nvidia or Microsoft could likely pull it off by feeding the color buffer and motion vectors to an AI model, as Google is doing with System Autospatialization on Android XR.
X-Plane & iRacing Getting Official Apple Vision Pro Support Via PC VR Streaming
X-Plane 12 and iRacing will be officially playable on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your PC via Nvidia CloudXR, with your physical accessories blended in using mixed reality passthrough.
And speaking of taking advantage of headsets, Nvidia recently announced that it’s been working with Apple to leverage the VR foveated streaming feature of visionOS 26.4 in its CloudXR SDK. As well as enterprise applications, this is bringing official support for X-Plane 12 and iRacing on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your own PC.
But will Nvidia take the obvious next step and offer VR titles on GeForce Now, eliminating the need for a gaming PC? UploadVR put that question to the company at a recent briefing, but it declined to answer.
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