Latest Meta Quest 2 update brings undisturbed VR joy - MIXED Reality News

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The latest update for Meta Quest 2 brings a caller location environment, a “do not disturb” mode and a web hub for parental monitoring.

Meta writes connected the Oculus Blog that the update volition beryllium released shortly. The update has not yet shown up successful the Meta Quest Release Notes, the website that lists the afloat merchandise notes.

The update is mentation fig 49, with Meta skipping update 48. The past update is conscionable nether 2 months aged and was rolled retired astatine the extremity of November.

If you present deliberation that the archetypal update of the twelvemonth volition bring large new functions (couch mode) oregon improvements (performance increase), you are mistaken. Meta has seemingly saved these for later. But what precisely does update 49 bring?

New and improved location environments

In December, the wintry location situation Polar Village with snow-covered houses and awesome polar lights was released conscionable successful clip for the Christmas season. With Update 49, Meta introduces the location situation Abstraction: a colorful and abstract scenery without existent objects, which is expected to beforehand concentration.

Meta besides adds respective hotspots to the Desert Terrace, Space Station and Winter Lodge location environments, allowing you to research caller areas. Also caller are virtual chairs and sofas to beryllium connected with your guests.

“Do Not Disturb” Mode

Virtual world is expected to beryllium immersive, truthful perpetually popping up messages similar “Player X has started crippled Y” detracts from the VR acquisition alternatively than enhances it.

A caller “Do Not Disturb” mode remedies this and prevents unimportant messages from being displayed successful games and apps. The caller mode complements the older “Do Not Disturb” mode, which works system-wide, i.e. careless of whether you are successful the menus oregon successful games and apps.

Web hub for parental supervision

Meta introduced parental supervision tools for the archetypal clip with Update 41, which was rolled retired past summer.

While these settings were antecedently lone disposable successful the Meta Quest app, they are now disposable connected the web with Update 49.

In the alleged Family Center, parents and guardians tin find answers to communal questions, spot which tools are available, and marque settings: to restrict which apps the children person entree to oregon to cheque which games they person purchased and however overmuch clip they walk successful VR.

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