The Quest v67 replace allows you to freely place 2D home windows, improves Quest Professional’s eye monitoring, lets Quest 3 scan Wi-Fi QR Codes, and extra.
Quest v76 will “roll out” regularly beginning on Monday, after which it might take a couple of days and even weeks in your headset to get it.
New Window Structure
Usually the Quest system interface helps as much as three seen home windows directly and has separate ‘modes’ you turn between, Shut View and Far View.
In Shut View home windows cannot be resized and the aspect home windows are connected to the center app and never angled in the direction of you, which means viewability is awkward until you bodily strafe to the aspect. In Far View home windows could be resized, however not individually repositioned.
In Shut View you may solely reposition the whole interface, together with the connected home windows, whereas in Far View you may reposition all of the home windows collectively individually from the interface, however you continue to cannot individually reposition home windows with out transferring the entire interface.
Clip from Meta.
Model 67 provides a brand new experimental choice known as New Window Structure.
New Window Structure eliminates the express modes and as an alternative allows you to seize and detach home windows to place and resize them freely. For the connected aspect home windows, it additionally angles them barely towards you to considerably enhance viewability.
You possibly can detach as much as three home windows, which means now you can have a complete of six 2D home windows working directly, three docked and three indifferent.
New Window Structure additionally provides the brand new means to take any window fullscreen, which makes it a lot bigger and briefly hides the dock and different home windows. Within the dock’s place is a simplified management bar that allows you to toggle curving, swap the background between passthrough and a digital setting, and modify the brightness of stated background.
Quest Professional Eye Monitoring Improved
Quest Professional was the primary shopper standalone VR headset to ship with built-in eye monitoring, and stays the one shipped Oculus or Meta headset with eye monitoring.
Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering on Quest Professional
Within the v55 replace simply over a yr in the past, eight months after Quest Professional shipped, Meta stated it improved Quest Professional’s eye monitoring “to make it extra correct throughout a broader discipline of view and through expressions like winking”.
Now, in v67, Meta says it has “made additional enhancements”, although is not specifying precisely what these are. The corporate recommends recalibrating eye monitoring to see the brand new advantages.
Quest 3 Wi-Fi QR Code Scanning
Many units these days help producing a QR code that can be utilized to affix the Wi-Fi community they’re at the moment connecting to, and a few venues have these codes printed out to be used. The QR code accommodates the community SSID and password.
Quest 3 now helps scanning these QR codes utilizing its passthrough cameras to affix networks, a handy addition given how textual content entry in XR headsets remains to be burdensome.
To affix a community through QR code, go to the Wi-Fi part of settings.
Swipe Typing No Longer Experimental
Swipe typing has been an experimental choice on Quest since v56, which launched round a yr in the past. With v67 it is not experimental.
Quest v55 footage from VR fanatic Luna.
Should you’re unfamiliar, swipe typing is an enter technique obtainable on smartphones the place you “draw” a steady line between letters on the keyboard, and a few individuals discover it permits quicker typing than individually urgent keys.
Do Not Disturb Timer
With v67, now you can activate Do Not Disturb for a selected length of time, muting notifications so you may deal with work or take pleasure in an immersive expertise in peace.
With v67, Meta says now you can “open Quest TV or use File Viewer to observe immersive movies” with out quitting the working VR or blended actuality app.
Creator Content material in Horizon Feed
Meta says you may quickly begin to see movies from content material creators in Horizon Feed, the default interface you see when loading up a Quest headset.
Meta says content material creators can enroll to be included on the Meta Quest Group Discord.
