‘Tis season for a Meta Quest replace, with new options, and even a efficiency increase, coming to your Oculus Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, and Meta Quest Professional VR headsets through replace v60. Sadly, the replace additionally means the removing of a function – so lengthy, cellphone notifications.

Per the announcement on Meta’s weblog, which change is essentially the most impactful is a toss-up relying on which headset you personal. For Meta Quest Professional customers it’s probably going to be the mixed-reality efficiency increase that’s coming solely to your headset. Meta is enabling increased clock speeds for the Professional’s CPU and GPU that it says will lead to a 34% and 19% enhance in efficiency for these elements respectively.

This increase gained’t enhance the passthrough video high quality, simply the rendering and responsiveness of the digital objects in your MR area although – so it won’t be sufficient to persuade you to strive extra MR apps if you have not already. 

When you don’t personal a Quest Professional, the very best improve coming in v60 is to the variety of rooms your Quest system can keep in mind. When you decide in to share your level cloud knowledge, your VR headset will achieve the power to retailer data for a couple of play area at a time – that means you must be capable to transfer your play area between rooms extra simply, with out having to redraw the boundaries each time.

As we talked about above, nevertheless, customers are dropping entry to 1 function – cellphone notifications will now not present in your headset.

It’s not clear precisely why this instrument is being taken away – our guess is that it has one thing to do with the function not being fashionable sufficient – however those that do depend on it would discover a downgrade. You’ll now must take away your headset each time you wish to verify why your cellphone has pinged, except you could have a Meta Quest 3; as we famous in our Meta Quest Three evaluate, this headset’s mixed-reality passthrough is a significant leap ahead, and it’s ok for you to have the ability to make out what’s on a real-world display screen. 

A brand new Horizon (Residence)

A couple of different modifications coming in v60 embrace new Meta Horizon Residence environments – the Blue Hill Gold Mine, Storybook, and Lakeside Peak (which you’ll be able to see within the GIF under). These visually distinct areas won’t solely provide you with a pleasant area to load into if you boot up your headset, however a extra customized area that you could invite your VR associates to, to hang around and watch Meta Quest TV content material collectively earlier than leaping right into a multiplayer expertise.

Your profile can be getting a power-up. Now, except you retain the information personal by altering your account preferences, individuals who take a look at your profile can see extra particulars about your shared VR pursuits, together with the apps you each use and your mutual associates.

Neither is super-impactful proper now, however because the metaverse turns into extra social these kinds of minor tweaks will assist to make the expertise much more seamless, so that they’re actually appreciated.

As with earlier updates, v60 is regularly rolling out now, so when you don’t see the brand new options but don’t panic – you shouldn’t have lengthy to attend till the replace installs and so they unlock.

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