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” progressively beginning on Monday, after which it might take a couple of days and even weeks to 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 direction of you, which means viewability is awkward except you bodily strafe to the aspect. In Far View home windows might be resized, however not individually repositioned.
In Shut View you may solely reposition all the 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.
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Model 67 provides a brand new experimental possibility known as New Window Structure.
New Window Structure removes the specific modes and as a substitute 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’ll be able to detach as much as three home windows, which means now you can have a complete of six 2D home windows operating 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 permits you to toggle curving, swap the background between passthrough and a digital surroundings, and regulate the brightness of mentioned background.
Footage from VR fanatic Luna.
Quest Professional Eye Monitoring Improved
Quest Professional was the primary client 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 update simply over a yr in the past, eight months after Quest Professional shipped, Meta mentioned it improved Quest Professional’s eye monitoring “to make it extra correct throughout a broader area 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 assist producing a QR code that can be utilized to hitch the Wi-Fi community they’re presently 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 hitch networks, a handy addition given how textual content entry in XR headsets continues to be burdensome.
To hitch a community by way of QR code, go to the Wi-Fi part of settings.
Swipe Typing No Longer Experimental
Swipe typing has been an experimental possibility on Quest since v56, which launched round a yr in the past. With v67 it is now not experimental.
Quest v55 footage from VR fanatic Luna.
For those who’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 particular length of time, muting notifications so you may concentrate on work or get pleasure from an immersive expertise in peace.
With v67, Meta says now you can “open Quest TV or use File Viewer to look at immersive movies” with out quitting the operating VR or combined 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 Community Discord.