How to Watch the Olympic Games in Paris in Meta Quest 3
If you’re not lucky enough to be in Paris for the Olympics this month, the second best way to watch the games is with the Meta Quest 3 headset, which lets you watch Peacock’s coverage of the Olympic events either in a virtual cinema or on an augmented reality screen. You can stream everything Peacock has to offer from its app on Quest 3, which means tons of live events, archived competitions, match replays, highlight reels, and more.
How to watch the Olympic Games in Paris on Meta Quest 3
Here’s how to watch the Olympics in virtual reality using Meta Quest 3:
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Go to the Meta Horizon store.
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Search for Peacock
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Download and install the Peacock app.
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Log in or register: Peacock’s premium plan costs $7.99 per month and includes ads. Premium Plus, without ads, costs $13.99 per month.
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Once the Peacock app opens, Olympics coverage should be front and center. Click the “Olympics” tab and go to town.
How well is the Olympic Games covered in Meta Quest 3?
I tried Peacock’s Olympics coverage this morning and enjoyed broadcasting in a floating window the preliminary rounds of a sport I know nothing about while I did the real thing – the Olympics are great background entertainment for homework. This is what it looks like, for example, when you watch women’s rugby while doing laundry:
The full-screen room is great for my favorite use of VR video: lying in bed and projecting the video onto the virtual ceiling. This lazier style of viewing than sitting on the couch could be a killer VR/AR app, and the Olympics is your opportunity to try it out.
Another use for the VR Olympics is the ability to watch a different sport than everyone else in the house. You can put on headphones and project equestrian competitions directly onto the TV showing gymnastics, while (sort of) hanging out with your wife and watching the Olympics “together.”
Unfortunately, Peacock’s VR coverage of the Olympics is limited to the 2D streams of content available in their app, so it doesn’t take full advantage of VR’s capabilities with immersive, 3D side-lighting of Olympic events or anything like that. We hope for something similar in 2028.