The Quest v62 replace is rolling out quickly with a plethora of latest options and enhancements.
Model 62 is a big replace. It makes adjustments to the hand monitoring UX, provides help for iPhone-captured spatial movies, improves the microphone high quality, provides help for a number of combined actuality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Hyperlink, provides Fb stay streaming and YouTube Dwell Chat, and provides help for gamepads on the net.
As at all times, needless to say Quest system software program updates “roll out” regularly, so it might take a number of days or much more than per week to your headset to get the Quest v62 replace.
Simplified Hand Monitoring Gestures
Beforehand, when utilizing controller-free hand monitoring on Quest headsets you opened a particular hand monitoring Fast Motion Menu at any time by pinching and holding your thumb to your index finger in your proper hand for round 2 seconds.
Model 62 simplifies this circulate by default. Now, pinching your thumb in your proper hand instantly opens the common Quest system menu bar, no delay and no completely different mini-menu. Lengthy pinching will now recenter your view.
Basically, the appropriate hand pinch gesture now works precisely just like the menu button on the appropriate Contact controller.
For those who favor the previous Fast Motion Menu, you possibly can re-enable it within the Motion monitoring part of the headset’s settings.
iPhone Spatial Video Help
Spatial Video is Apple’s time period for stereoscopic 3D video on its gadgets. At the moment, solely Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and the 2 iPhone 15 Professional fashions can document spatial movies, and till now solely Imaginative and prescient Professional can play them again simply in 3D.
iPhone 15 Professional Now Information 3D ‘Spatial’ Video For Imaginative and prescient Professional
With iOS 17.2, iPhone 15 Professional can now document 3D ‘Spatial Video’ to observe in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
I say “simply” since you might already play spatial movies recorded by iPhone 15 Professional on any current VR headset utilizing an iPhone app known as Spatialify to transform it to common side-by-side 3D, then sending the file to your PC or Mac, and at last transfering it to a standalone headset like Quest by way of USB or enjoying it immediately by way of PC VR software program.
iPhone-captured spatial video being watched on Meta Quest 3.
That was fairly an concerned course of, however for Quest headsets it should not be mandatory. The Meta Quest iPhone app will now allow you to add spatial movies captured by your iPhone to a cloud storage folder. You will see them out there to observe within the cloud storage part of the Information app inside your headset.
Microphone Enhancements
When Quest 3 launched we had been initially excited to apply it to our weekly VR Obtain podcast however we discovered its microphone had the identical annoying plosives popping subject as Quest Professional.
Quest 3 Microphone Has The Identical Popping Difficulty As Quest Professional
Quest 3’s microphone has the identical annoying popping subject as Quest Professional:
Quest software program v62 brings enhancements to the microphone on Quest headsets.
Meta says it “improved speech readability with suppressed plosives or pop seems like P and T and fine-tuned equalization to provide your voice a extra balanced and nice sound.”
UploadVR plans to check this enchancment quickly to see if it resolves the plosives subject to the purpose we are able to use Quest 3 on our podcast.
Moreover, Meta says it fastened a problem the place the mic could possibly be by chance muted, added a immediate to alert the consumer when the microphone is muted on the system-level however an app is attempting to make use of it, and improved the standard and synchronization of the microphone in display recordings.
A number of Combined Actuality Room Meshes Now Supported
Quest 3 helps room-aware combined actuality. When utilizing an app that helps it, you are prompted to go searching your room to let the headset scan in a 3D mesh if you have not already.
Till now nonetheless the headset might solely retailer one Scene Mesh, so in the event you needed to make use of combined actuality in a unique room you’d need to do the method yet again whenever you return to the unique room.
With v62, Quest 3 can now retailer as much as 15 whole room meshes. Additional, Meta says the headset will now be higher at recalling saved room meshes to reduce the situations you ever need to rescan your room.
App Continuity When Multitasking
Model 62 contains an enchancment to 2D app multitasking known as App Continuity.
Quest headsets have allow you to confide in three 2D apps without delay for years now, together with system apps, internet browser home windows, and sideloaded Android apps.
However prior to now, opening an immersive app would discard these apps. Whilst you have been capable of carry up the browser whereas inside an app since final 12 months, you continue to misplaced the triple app setup you had earlier than launching the immersive app.
Video captured by Luna of this characteristic within the PTC construct.
With v62 your 2D app setup will now persist after launching an immersive app and VR fanatic Luna, who has had entry to the Public Check Channel (PTC) construct of v62 for a number of weeks now, posted a video to X exhibiting what this appears like.
Quest Hyperlink PC VR Enhancements
Simply over two months after Valve launched the Steam Hyperlink for Quest app, Meta is improving its personal first-party Quest Hyperlink (beforehand Oculus Hyperlink) and Air Hyperlink characteristic for the primary time in years.
Quest Hyperlink and Air Hyperlink now help 120Hz refresh charge on Quest 3, and formally helps NVIDIA RTX 4000-series graphics playing cards.
A brand new ‘USB Hyperlink Auto-Join’ characteristic will make Hyperlink robotically reconnect when there is a crash or disconnection.
Hand monitoring, eye monitoring, face monitoring, and physique monitoring are actually uncovered to OpenXR PC apps, whereas beforehand they solely formally labored within the Unity editor.
Meta can be promising normal stability, reliability and battery effectivity enhancements ensuing from bug fixes and enhancements.
The Oculus PC app was not too long ago renamed Meta Quest Hyperlink. It was one of many final locations the now-dead Oculus model was nonetheless used.
Fb Livestreaming For Everybody
Each the unique Oculus Quest and Quest 2 shipped with help for livestreaming to Fb, however Meta eliminated the characteristic in 2021, citing low utilization relative to native casting.
Within the v56 replace again in July, two years later, Meta mentioned it was restoring the characteristic “regularly”, and within the v62 replace Meta says the characteristic will now roll out to everybody.
When Livestreaming to Fb, you will see a floating persistent panel with the present viewer depend and stay chat.
YouTube Dwell Chat For Everybody
In November Meta opened an opt-in early entry program for an in-headset YouTube stay chat overlay. With v62, this characteristic is now rolling out extensively.
To be clear although, the headset will not really deal with the livestreaming. You will nonetheless need to solid to desktop streaming software program like OBS. This YouTube integration is simply the stay chat overlay.
Nonetheless, it needs to be a welcome change for YouTube streamers, as they’re going to not want to make use of a second particular person or pause the sport and convey up a Quest browser window to work together with their stay viewers.
Quest Browser Now Helps Gamepads
Whereas the Quest software program has supported gamepads for years now, helpful for sideloaded Android video games and the not too long ago launched Xbox Cloud Gaming app, v62 provides help for gamepads within the internet browser.
Gamepads are supported by way of Bluetooth or USB-C, and Meta says it now formally helps PlayStation 5 DualSense Wi-fi Controllers and PlayStation 4 DualShock throughout the system, whereas earlier than solely Xbox was formally totally supported.
