Microsoft recently announced the official rollout of its “Mixed Reality Link” feature for Windows 11, now available to all Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S users following the latest update to Meta Horizon OS. After a period of public previews that began in 2024, the feature has finally reached its stable release, allowing Quest users to experience an immersive Windows 11 productivity environment.
Once the Mixed Reality Link application is installed on a Windows 11 PC, users can stream their desktop directly to a Meta Quest headset, creating a virtual workspace. The experience closely resembles the virtual desktop functionality found on Apple’s Vision Pro, supporting the display of multiple high-resolution virtual screens within a 3D environment.
Beyond local PC streaming, Mixed Reality Link also supports portable cloud PC solutions, including Windows 365 Cloud PC, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Microsoft Dev Box, offering flexibility for both personal and enterprise users.
The launch of Mixed Reality Link marks a significant milestone—it brings a premium virtual office experience to a far more accessible hardware platform compared to Apple’s high-end Vision Pro.
With the Meta Quest 3S starting at just $300, the contrast is stark against the $3,500 price tag of Apple’s Vision Pro, underscoring a vast market divide. The move clearly reflects Meta’s broader strategy of heavy investment in the VR/AR ecosystem, aiming to challenge Apple in the virtual productivity space through aggressive pricing and wider accessibility.
Recently, Meta also teased an upcoming next-generation VR headset, promising an experience “indistinguishable from the physical world,” alongside the launch of new Ray-Ban smart glasses featuring AI-powered real-time translation—further signaling its ambitions to redefine the boundaries of mixed reality.