Meta’s Hyperspace lets you scan the real world and turn it into the Metaverse — and create anything you want with new AI tools
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Meta’s Hyperspace lets you scan the real world and turn it into the Metaverse — and create anything you want with new AI tools
Scott Younker
18 September 2025
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Smart glasses may be all the rage at Meta Connect 2025, but some interesting things are happening in the Metaverse. The company announced a new tool called Hyperspace that can bring real spaces into the metaverse.
Hyperspace Capture uses cameras on your Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S headset to “capture” your real-world space in minutes. It can then create a “true-to-life” digital replica that you can visit.
“This is the first step in enabling our vision for photorealistic social teleportation,” Meta said in a press release. Hyperspace is in beta and is rolling out gradually to Quest 3 and Quest 3S owners, aged 18 and up only, starting today.
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Meta showed off how the scanning works with rooms from celebrities like Chance the Rapper’s living room and Gordon Ramsey’s kitchen.
Once you have access, you should be able to scan your own physical space. Meta does not mention if you can capture outdoor spaces and all of the provided examples are only of interior rooms.
The company also said that you won’t be able to visit other people’s replicas yet, though that feature is coming soon. But if you have a Quest headset, you can check out the Hyperspace world,s including Chance’s studio or The Octagon at UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
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Beyond Hyperspace, Meta is introducing two platforms to help developers and creators build games and worlds.
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“Our vision for the future is a world where anyone anywhere can imagine a character, a scene, or an entire world and create it from scratch,” a press release reads.
Meta’s Horizon Engine is meant to provide better graphics and faster performance for devs to “easily generate nearly infinite connected spaces with realistic physics and interactions.” Meta says it was built from scratch and allows for greater concurrency so that up to “5x more people” can enjoy a single space than Meta’s previous engine was capable of supporting.
Provide examples are giving very early World of Warcraft.
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You’ll mostly see this support in places like the new Arena for concerts or the redesigned Horizon Central hub.
The other tool, Meta Horizon Studio, is an editor and hub for creators. It comes with generative AI tools that can generate audio, textures, TypeScript, skyboxes and more via text prompts. Meta says it will soon add agentic AI assistants that will stitch tools together to make creating even faster.
The goal is get people build gaming worlds in minutes rather than days or months.
“It will dramatically lower the barrier to entry for creation without lowering the ceiling of what’s possible,” Meta said.
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Meta is launching new entertainment hub called Horizon TV. To start, Disney Plus is coming to the hub. Additionally, Meta is partnering with Universal and Blumhouse to bring you horror movies like M3GAN and The Black Phone with “immersive special effects.”
Over the summer at showcases like Summer Games Fest and GamesCom some VR titles were announced for the the Meta Quest VR headsets. The biggest title was probably Marvel’s DeadPool VR.
But other titles are coming as well including ILM’s Star Wars: Beyond Victory and Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. Demeo is one of the best VR games for those who like tabletop RPGs. All of these games are coming this fall.
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Scott Younker is the West Coast Reporter at Tom’s Guide. He covers all the lastest tech news. He’s been involved in tech since 2011 at various outlets and is on an ongoing hunt to build the easiest to use home media system. When not writing about the latest devices, you are more than welcome to discuss board games or disc golf with him. He also handles all the Connections coverage on Tom’s Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game since it released.
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