Quest headsets now work higher when you do not have an web connection.
VR fanatic Luna has observed that Horizon OS v69 now caches app icons for the app Library. In addition they report the OS now darkens the icons of apps which require an web connection to work, letting you see which you’ll presently use.
This appears to be rolling out alongside v69.
Icons are cached quite than clean and apps that require an energetic connection are grayed out. https://t.co/lHXLg2T57I pic.twitter.com/rM75LTFtsJ
β Luna (@Lunayian) September 29, 2024
Beforehand, the OS would all the time try and load the icons from the web, exhibiting a clean gray placeholder if no connection was obtainable. When you might nonetheless launch the apps, you would not see their icon.
App icon caching is a rudimentary characteristic of just about each different OS on the market, so Quest homeowners will probably be completely satisfied to see it arrive on their headsets.
The advance comes six months in any case internet-connected Quest headsets stopped working for round an hour, after which the corporate vowed to make them “extra resilient”. And all these enhancements are a part of a wider effort at Meta to show Horizon OS right into a viable basic computing platform, widening the scope of Quest headsets from gaming units to private computer systems.
