Quest v74 is beginning to roll out, bringing internet shortcuts in Library, the system menu to Quest Hyperlink, DisplayPort Out to exterior screens, improved casting, and extra.
As with all Meta Horizon OS updates, v74 will “roll out” step by step, so it could take just a few days and even weeks to your headset to get the v74 replace. Additional, Meta rolls out some options individually to the principle replace itself, so even having the v74 replace does not assure having all the things listed right here but.
Internet Shortcuts In Library
With Quest v74, now you can add a shortcut to any internet URL to your Library.
To take action, open Browser, choose the menu icon on the high proper, and choose ‘Add this web page to your library’.
Clicking the shortcuts you create will open the URL as its personal minimalist window, with out the tab and URL bar interface of Browser, as you possibly can see within the screenshot above.
Meta has already added sure web site shortcuts to the shop, introduced as if apps, comparable to Peacock, Wordle, and Microsoft Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint. However now you possibly can select any web site your self.
DisplayPort Out To Exterior Shows
It has been doable to wirelessly forged your Quest view to the telephone app, or Google Forged TV gadgets because the authentic Oculus Quest launched, and to the PC app for months. Now, with Quest v74, you possibly can output your view to exterior shows comparable to TVs and screens through USB-C DisplayPort, in any other case referred to as DisplayPort Alt Mode.
Meta says the characteristic affords “excessive decision and low latency.”
Mixed with a seize card and PC, the characteristic might be supreme for video content material creators and livestreamers, as not like common casting it does not require a Wi-Fi community and the standard and latency will not be affected by community situations. It must also be helpful for standalone demos at commerce reveals.
Improved Wi-fi Casting Reliability
For these utilizing wi-fi casting, to the telephone app, PC app, web site, or Google Forged TV gadgets, Meta says it has “considerably improved the reliability” of this characteristic in Quest v74.
Simply over a yr in the past the corporate eliminated the TV casting functionality, citing reliability points, earlier than including it again lower than two weeks later following widespread complaints. It is doable that v74 is seeing the deliberate reliability fixes Meta hinted at in its clarification arrive.
When utilizing Quest Hyperlink, the official characteristic for making your Quest act as a PC VR headset, you have historically been unable to carry up the Quest system menu. As a substitute, uniquely on Quest (no different app or expertise works like this), urgent the Meta/Oculus button on the correct Contact controller would carry up the PC-based Rift menu bar.
Now, with Quest v74, Meta says Quest Hyperlink “contains system tray help, giving fast entry to machine standing and fast actions whereas Meta Quest Hyperlink is operating within the background”.
It is unclear whether or not or not this implies the PC-side Rift menu bar has been eliminated.
Minimized 2D Apps Now Proven
With Quest v74, Meta says minimized 2D apps at the moment are “proven above the common menu, making it simple to see which purposes are nonetheless open”.
Beforehand there was no indication of minimized 2D apps. You’d simply see whichever 2D apps you had open, the three connected to the dock along with as much as three undocked right into a place in house.
Meta hasn’t but launched a screenshot of what the brand new minimized app visibility will appear to be.
Seamless Multitasking No Longer Experimental
Since launch for Quest Professional and Quest 3 and since early 2023 for Quest 2 you have been capable of carry up the browser or different 2D home windows whereas inside an immersive app. And since v62 you have been capable of carry up the as much as three 2D home windows you had within the residence house in these apps.
However to renew interacting with the immersive app once more, you wanted to attenuate the 2D home windows you had open.
Footage by UploadVR.
Quest v69 added a brand new Seamless Multitasking experimental choice, which helps you to proceed to work together with the immersive app whereas your 2D home windows are open. This implies you possibly can, for instance, watch Netflix or YouTube whereas enjoying a VR sport. It has a efficiency penalty, however apps that use dynamic decision ought to scale down their decision to adapt.
Now, with Quest v74, Meta says this characteristic is not experimental, and ought to be “rolling out” to everybody.
Multi-Room House Setup
Since v62 one yr in the past, Quest headsets have been capable of bear in mind the 3D mesh you scanned for a number of rooms, as much as 15 actually.
Now, with Quest v74, Meta will allow you to scan a number of rooms in a single scanning session, letting you stroll round your own home and sequentially scan every room. Every room will nonetheless be saved as a separate scan, although, to be clear.
Quest 3 Blended Actuality Apps Can Now Span Your Total House
Builders can now construct Quest 3 combined actuality experiences that span throughout a number of rooms.
This replace ought to make it simpler to arrange for experiences that span your whole residence, an idea Meta’s SDKs added help for again in July.
Journey Detection
Final yr Quest 2 and Quest 3 received a Journey Mode, and Quest 3S launched with it. Journey Mode makes the headset’s positional monitoring work whereas in a transferring car, with official help for airplanes initially and trains too since v71.
However Why Is A Journey Mode Wanted In The First Place?
Individuals typically assume that markerless inside-out monitoring methods on headsets, glasses, and self-tracking controllers solely use the cameras, however this is not the case. These methods rely simply as a lot on the inertial measurement unit (IMU), a chip that incorporates a tiny accelerometer and gyroscope.
Whereas cameras sometimes run at 30Hz or 60Hz, the IMU sometimes supplies updates round 1000Hz, enabling a lot decrease latency. Nevertheless, an IMU cannot really detect absolute motion – at the very least circuitously. The accelerometer within the IMU senses acceleration relative to gravity, and you’ll take the integral of acceleration over time to get velocity. And when you once more take the integral of these velocity values over time, you get displacement from the unique place.
This course of known as useless reckoning. From second to second, it’s how each headset and controller tracks itself, and the optical facet like cameras or laser base stations are primarily solely used to right for the cumulative error that outcomes from the noisiness of IMU information. However in a transferring car the accelerometer will decide up the acceleration of the car itself, pondering it is the headset itself transferring, which ends up in sudden and fast positional drifting.
Now, with Quest v74, Meta says the headset ought to detect if you’re in a transferring car and recommend enabling Journey Mode with a pop-up, eradicating the necessity to manually know to allow it.
Night time Show Passthrough Enhancements
Night time Show, referred to as Night time Shift on Apple’s iOS and Night time Gentle on Google’s Android, is a toggle which adjusts the show colours to hotter hues to emit much less blue gentle, which some analysis suggests may disrupt sleep.
In Quest v74, Meta says it has up to date Night time Show to “enhance the consistency of coloration stability, white level and heat in passthrough experiences”.
Spatial Audio For 2D Calling Apps
In v69 Meta added spatial audio for 2D home windows, which means audio emitted by them will sound like they’re coming from the window’s place in house.
With Quest v74, Meta says this can now work for calling apps too, comparable to WhatsApp or Horizon calls through the built-in Individuals app, suggesting these sorts of apps did not work with the v69 implementation.
App Crash Detection & Reporting
In Quest v74, Meta says it has added a brand new dialog for when an app crashes, with the choice to report the issue. It is unclear whether or not this report would go to Meta, the app developer, or each.