Feature Request: Enable Casting from Quest VR Glasses for Parental Monitoring
To Meta Development Team,
As a concerned parent and Quest VR user, I’d like to highlight an important limitation in the current system: the inability to cast directly from Quest VR glasses when the user is logged into a child account. This feature is crucial for parents to monitor and assist their children’s activities in VR, ensuring a safe and educational experience.
Currently, casting functionality is restricted in child accounts, making it impossible to supervise what content is being accessed. This is concerning, especially when the system requires parental permissions for various actions but does not provide parents with an effective way to observe or guide their child’s usage in real-time.
Why This Feature is Important:
1. Safety and Oversight: Parents need to ensure that children are engaging with age-appropriate content and are safe from potential harm, whether it’s from apps, games, or interactions in VR spaces.
2. Parental Assistance: Many VR applications and experiences require some guidance, especially for younger users. Without casting, parents are left in the dark and cannot help effectively.
3. Consistency with Parental Control Philosophy: The system already requires parental permissions for specific actions. However, without casting, there’s a lack of transparency, which is inconsistent with the principle of active parental involvement.
Suggested Implementation:
1. Enable Casting for Child Accounts: Allow parents to cast their child’s VR activity to a connected device (e.g., TV or smartphone) when logged in with a parent-authorized account.
2. Parental Approval: Require the parent to initiate or approve casting, ensuring that this feature aligns with privacy policies.
3. Optional Notifications: Provide the child with an on-screen notification that casting is active to maintain trust and transparency.
Conclusion:
This feature would not only provide peace of mind for parents but also reinforce Meta’s commitment to creating a safe and family-friendly VR environment. The lack of such an essential monitoring tool feels like an oversight in the current system. Enabling casting for child accounts would align with the broader goal of fostering responsible and safe usage of VR technology.
Thank you for considering this request, and I look forward to seeing improvements in this area.
