The Meta Quest 2 is getting a GPU boost two years after its release - XDA Developers

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Meta is expanding the powerfulness of its Meta Quest 2, improving the show of its headset, 2 years aft its release.

Despite coming retired 2 years ago, the Meta Quest 2 is inactive 1 of the astir affordable and well-supported virtual world headsets connected the market. Despite its caller price bump, the headset is inactive a large deal, with Meta continuously improving the level done a fig of updates.

Today, the institution announced that it would beryllium expanding the GPU compute powerfulness of the headset, giving developers conscionable a small spot much to enactment with for their projects. Going forward, developers volition beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of the caller 525 MHz GPU frequency, which is up 7 percent from the erstwhile fig which sat astatine 490 MHz.

Best of all, developers won't person to adhd immoderate other codification to their projects to instrumentality vantage of the boost due to the fact that the Quest 2's dynamic clocking strategy volition automatically summation the frequence of the GPU erstwhile needed. Furthermore, Meta states that dynamic foveation volition beryllium capable to enactment successful conjunction with the caller summation successful powerfulness by mounting graphics prime arsenic precedence earlier foveation begins to footwear in.

Of course, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot conscionable however overmuch this caller alteration volition impact the show of existing and forthcoming apps. However, 1 happening to note, and portion a insignificant inconvenience, is that successful its existent state, successful bid to beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of the other power, users volition request to motorboat the app first, past region the Quest 2 headset, past enactment it backmost connected successful bid to activate the other power. The institution states that with upcoming v49 update, that this volition nary longer beryllium necessary.

For the astir part, this quality should beryllium rather exciting, particularly since the Meta Quest 2 is presently a bargain. If you person yet to prime up the Meta Quest 2, you tin bash truthful from your section retail oregon find it connected Amazon and Best Buy. The existent terms of the basal exemplary with 128GB is conscionable $350. For the vacation season, Meta is including 2 games astatine this terms point, Resident Evil 4 and Beat Saber.