Beta

Tessera

Browse a whole library as a wall of moving video. Not a grid of posters — a grid of things actually playing.

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Every media player shows you a wall of static cover art and makes you remember what's inside. Tessera shows you the films themselves, moving, all at once.

As many streams as the headset's decode budget allows play live; the rest hold their last decoded frame, so the wall stays full rather than going grey. When something has to be paused to make room, the player prefers a screen behind you over the one you're facing.

Two ways to watch

Dock mode — one flat panel with an adaptive tiled grid, comfortable for browsing and for passthrough use
Immersive mode — screens placed freely in 3D space, any size, any position, over passthrough or a solid backdrop

The switch between them preserves state, so you don't lose your place changing your mind.

Dozens of videos playing simultaneously in a tiled grid in Tessera — The defining trick — many streams live at once, not thumbnails.

The decode budget

A headset can only hardware-decode so much video at once, and naive players fall over when you ask for more. Tessera treats that ceiling as the central problem rather than an afterthought.

A budget controller weighs each stream by throughput and codec, admits what fits, evicts what doesn't, and watches the decoder's own drop-rate counters to adapt its ceiling while you browse. Video is decoded exclusively by the hardware block — Tessera never implements decompression itself, so all the engineering goes into orchestration instead.

Where your video lives

SMB / network shares — native SMB2/3 with fast seeking
USB drives — including NTFS and exFAT volumes Horizon OS won't mount itself
Local and OS-mounted storage via the standard file picker

3D and VR formats are detected from the file's own metadata where present, with filename and aspect heuristics as a fallback, and a manual override when the file lies.

Video screens placed freely around the room in Tessera's immersive mode — Immersive mode — screens sized and placed wherever you want them.

Tessera's library browser listing files from a network share — The library browser, reading straight off a network share.

Requirements

Headset: Meta Quest 3 or Quest 3S
Not supported: Quest 2 — no AV1 hardware decode and a weaker decode budget
Sources: SMB2/3 shares, USB mass storage, local files
Status: In beta, shipping soon

Want in early, or have a library that breaks it? That's genuinely useful — hello@rabbitholesolutions.ca.