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If you’re not lucky enough to be in Paris to watch the Olympics this month, the next best thing is watching the games with a Meta Quest 3 headset. With this headset, you can watch Peacock’s live Olympic games in a virtual theater or on an augmented reality screen. All of Peacock’s content is available to stream through the app on your Quest 3, which means you can watch a ton of live events, archived competitions, recaps, highlight collections, and more.
How to watch the Paris Olympics on Meta Quest 3
Here’s how to watch the Olympics in virtual reality using your Meta Quest 3.
Go to the Meta Horizon store.
Find a Peacock
Download and install the Peacock app
Sign in or sign up: Peacock’s premium plan costs $7.99 per month and includes ads. The ad-free Premium Plus is $13.99 per month.
When you open the Peacock app, Olympic coverage will be at the forefront — click on the “Olympics” tab to watch.
How good is the Olympics coverage on Meta Quest 3?
I tried Peacock’s Olympics coverage this morning and enjoyed being able to stream the qualifying rounds of a sport I know nothing about in a floating window while I go about my daily life. The Olympics are great background entertainment to enjoy while you do household chores. For example, here’s what watching women’s rugby might look like while doing the laundry:
Credit: Steven Johnson – Peacock
The full-screen in-room experience is perfect for my favorite way to watch VR video: lying in bed with the video projected onto a virtual ceiling. A more casual alternative to sitting on the couch, this could be the killer app for virtual and augmented reality, and the Olympics are your chance to try it.
Another use for the VR Olympics is being able to watch a different sport from the rest of the house: I could put on some headphones, project the equestrian events on top of the TV that’s showing the gymnastics, and my wife and I would feel like we were watching the Olympics together (in a way).
Unfortunately, Peacock’s VR Olympic coverage is limited to a 2D stream of content available on the app, which means it doesn’t take full advantage of VR’s potential, such as immersive 3D sideline coverage of Olympic events, something we hope to see come to fruition in 2028.
