” Apple is coming, Apple is coming “, the sirens sound within Meta And Mark Zuckerberg does not seem ready to want to give up his place leader. For sure, competition is good and this v62 update illustrates it perfectly. There are many features and fixesLet’s do a check in.
Disclaimer :
We remind you that the features and corrections that you will find in our article may not be activated, even if your headset is in v62 (read our article for more details).
Like theApple Vision Proit will soon be possible to control its application by holding down your thumb and index finger for approximately 2 seconds. If we used to resort to this trick in games that work via hand tracking (hand tracking), now it will work wherever you are.
How does this translate? Pinching with the gesture opens the Quest system home menu bar, a long press refocuses the image (like the button does Meta controllers Quest). This pinch feature is optional and can be activated or not in the settings.
Here we are, it will be possible to do asApple Vision Prothe price less. Space videos will now be compatible with devices Meta Quest 2.3 And Pro. Be careful, only the VisionPro as well as the two models ofiPhone 15 (iOS 17.2) can record stereoscopic (3D) videos. You can find these files in the section Cloud Storage of the native application “Files” from your headset.
Reserved only for 2D applications or certain immersive software, controller support comes second. It will finally be possible to use our controllers during our web browsing. This is the perfect opportunity to play your games flash or potentially benefit from certain services of cloud gaming/computing (Boosteroid, Shadow…).
Controller support will be through Bluetooth or in USB-C. Rejoice, there DualSense from Sony (PS5) and the Dualshock (PS4) will now be officially and fully supportedwhich means great savings in perspective if you don’t already have a controller Xbox.
Baptized App Continuitythe functionality that we are going to discuss will clearly expand the field of possibilities. If it were possible to launch 3 2D applications at the same time, we could not also launch an immersive application (VR), it was either one or the other. Well, now, as you see below, it will soon be ancient history:
Some interesting changes to multi-tasking and multi-window view in Meta Quest OS v62 PTCcontinuing from the improvements in v59:
– Panel movement and distance bar is back
– Panels persist when launching and exiting an “immersive” VR/MR app pic.twitter.com/21jUwSRN0g— Luna (@Lunayian) January 19, 2024
Microphone quality is up for debate: some find it as good as on Meta Quest 2 when others cry scandal. Well, Meta will apparently reconcile everyone with this v62, supposed to eliminate the problems of clicking, plosives (distortions obtained on words containing P and T) and other parasitic noises.
More audible voices, more balanced and pleasant sound, which does not cut off, which synchronizes perfectly in the right place during a recording, that’s all that promises Meta, SO wait and see.
For certain titles RMyou must Meta Quest scans the part to convert it into a 3D model (Mesh). If the process previously made it possible to keep a single scene in memory, from now on, the application will be able to store up to 15 different meshes in order to minimize the need for scanning each time the application is restarted.
THE Quest Link (formerly Oculus Link) is a way to connect, wired, your headset to a PC VR-Ready. We thought that Meta was going to gradually abandon its software stream PCVRbut it seems thatApple went through there and Zuckerberg has no other choice but to demonstrate that its system “offers more than the competitor, except the price”.
THE Quest Link as well as theAir Link now support 120 Hz and the latest Nvidia graphics cards (RTX 4000). Also, a new function USB-Link Auto-Connect will, as its name suggests, automatically reconnect your headset in the event of a power outage. Previously, we were most often treated to a frozen image, which forced the user to have to restart the application, the game, or both. Finally, hand tracking will also be in the spotlight in this update for games PCVR. Of course, this UPDATE also comes with stability and security fixes.
Meta wanted to remove this feature in 2021because no one was using it, and as always, you just have to announce it for the community to want to use it. Following the discontent of players, the firm backpedaled and is now starting to resurrect its functionality through updates.
So, if everyone can benefit from it, these are of course the Youtubers who will benefit the most. The latter will be able to streamer content without having to pause the game or ask a third party to read the comments.
Please note, you will always need to use software streaming (ex : OBS) for this to work.
You will see it for yourself, the number of fixes and features demonstrates how much Meta is panicked by the coming of VisionPro. We can only hope that this game of cat and mouse intensifies over the months, even years to come, for our greatest happiness.
The latest mixed reality headset is available on the website Meta and on Amazon. The model with 128 GB of storage costs 549.99 euros while the one with 512 GBit is sold at 699.99 euros.