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Meta Quest build 49.0 release notes

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These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of January 19th, 2023 and will be pushed to Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest headsets.

Explore new Home environments

We’re adding two new Home environments to explore and we're also making it easier to move around in your Home. You can now explore more of your Home environment and you can rotate your view when you have the universal menu open.

Our new Home environments include:

Polar Village: Explore snow-capped cottages, the majesty of a winter’s (early) morn, the light of flickering fireplaces and the awe-inspiring aurora borealis.
Abstraction: Step outside the boundaries of reality, with an explosion of color and amorphous blobs!

Parental supervision on Family Center

We’re making it easier to set up and manage parental supervision tools for Meta Quest with the new Family Center. On Family Center, you can get answers to common questions, discover what parental supervision tools are available and make changes to existing settings.

Parents can also invite teens to set up parental supervision on their accounts on Family Center.

Do Not Disturb for Immersive Experiences

We’ve added a new Do Not Disturb mode in v49 that, once activated, silences notifications while you’re in 3-dimensional games and apps. You can find this setting in System Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb. Keep in mind that certain critical notifications (examples: party invites, battery status) will still be displayed.

Accessibility settings for Meta Quest mobile app

We are adding our accessibility settings to the Meta Quest mobile app, increasing the ease-of-use and ease-of-access for accessibility settings in your VR experience.

Secure payment updates

When buying games or making in-app purchases in VR, you can now use the Meta Quest mobile app to pass the 3DS (SCA) authentication step of the checkout.

Universal menu updates

We’re giving the universal menu a visual refresh. We’re also adding a fourth app to your app history, and an active app indicator that shows your current open apps.

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AlphaEndgame

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The only relevant feature of this update would be the ability to disable the avatar arms and go back to the ghost hands. Is this ability implemented? I'll hold back on updating until I can use the ghost hands again.

RyanalityAuthor

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There's no official news on if this will become a feature that can be toggled on or off, but we've been sharing the community's interest in being able to turn off the visible avatar features with our developers. If there's any plans that we're able to share regarding this, we'll update the idea threads on the topic!

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Ggizzle1k

Up and Coming

Hey fam, we’re on the same page to develop the company

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BOLNICHKA39

Participant

Does this version have hand tracking 2.1? And then after the release of version 2.0, my tracking was broken, I wrote earlier that tracking works fine in the helmet menu, but it's terrible in games, one game is not even passable because of this.

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cvan65

Inspiring

What happened to the Avatar clothing store that was in an Oculus blog over a month ago with new clothes we can buy? I have TWO friends (one on a Quest2 and one on a Quest Pro) who have had this ability for weeks now and there's no mention of it anywhere? Why don't we have it yet? I have both a 2 and a Pro and got the 49 update today and still nothing. These updates are the just so poorly handled. Why advertise that this feature is coming and then drop it from the conversation even though some users have it?

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bright90

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What will the versions be in my quest 2 software update page? I can’t figure out if I’ve gotten the v49 update yet… out of four different versions listed on my software update section, half say 49xxxxx, and the other half say 47.000xxxxx

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Buetigame

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The long number isn't the version... you've got v47, as I do.
One and a half week after announcement 😞

I also vote for making the "arms" optional... or deactivateable at least.

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LoriDegre

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When Meta? When will this V49 hit my OQ2? I purchased a set of Pro controllers and they paired fine but are stuck on 0% firmware update and have been for 4 solid days. I’ve un-paired and re-paired a couple of DOZEN times. Still no progress. Can you please roll this V49 update out fully so those of us waiting to use these controllers can finally do so? “There are MANY of us” 🙏 I honestly do not want to return them, but if they aren’t going to function, $300 is more than I want to spend on a set of paper weights. At the very least can you tell us why we are all having this issue and when it will be resolved. Appreciate it. 👍

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cvan65

Inspiring

Just a heads up: I was able to pair the Pro controllers with my Q2 with version 47. I only got 49 a few days ago. It did not update automatically in my headset though. I just happened to go into System, Software Update and I could click to download it so you may want to check that. After it downloaded, I still did not have the clothing store but after I restarted my headset some hours later, it showed up. Hope you get your issue sorted.

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LoriDegre

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I keep trying, all day every day since buying the controllers. Will try again today. Today is day 5 of fighting with this. Not what I signed up for Meta. WTHeck?

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LoriDegre

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I have the new home environments, I do not see a mirror anywhere and my pro controllers will not update. Can I assume the update dropped onto my headset but didn’t fully complete updating to V49? It seems to be at a midway point. My settings says there is no update available, my V is a mix, 2 sections star with 47 and 2 sections star with 49. 🤷🏻‍:female_sign: I also cannot get my Pro Controllers to update, they are stuck on 0% firmware for 5 solid days now. Tried every trick in the book, followed all your ‘support’ suggestions, except for 1. I am not doing a factory reset. I’ll return the controllers first and just keep my original controllers. I should not have to wipe my headset and factory reset to update a set of controllers. Ridiculous!

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TomCgcmfc

Honored Contributor

LoriDegre wrote:
Tried every trick in the book, followed all your ‘support’ suggestions, except for 1. I am not doing a factory reset. I’ll return the controllers first and just keep my original controllers. I should not have to wipe my headset and factory reset to update a set of controllers. Ridiculous!

Honestly, doing a factory reset isn't the worst thing in the world to do imho. Much better than needing to do a Windows clean reinstall, lol!

I've found with my Q2 I need to do this once or twice a year. I've even done it once already with my QPro. It does fix a lot of problems and makes your Quest feel like new again. Cloud backups help but you still need to download apps again. When you go through the setup you can select which ones you really want to download.

One tip I've found that helps avoid factory resets is to keep your headset on (and connected to your charger or external battery) while it downloads and installs software and firmware updates. A bit if a pain to do but it seems to help make sure everything is downloaded and installed correctly.

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers

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bright90

Participant

Factory reset will not fix this issue.. (though as a general practice/principle, I hear you)

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JoeDude

Participant

What ever happened to "Advanced Camera Setting." I've never had access to it. Is it available in 49, or is it dead forever?

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JoeDude

Participant

I updated to 49 today - still no advanced camera settings to be found. How do I get advanced camera settings? Thanks

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TomCgcmfc

Honored Contributor

Both my Q2 and QPro are still on V47 but my Oculus Desktop PC app updated to v49 yesterday. This has actually caused me a few problems trying to initiate Air Link. I seem to either need to retry this quite a few times and/or drop my oculus desktop app graphics setting back to default 72Hz settings. Even with a rtx4090, lol!

Maybe this will improve when I actually get v49 on both my Q2 and QPro.

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers

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Buetigame

Participant

Got both (App & Firmware) on thursday (2nd Feb) and no problems with (Air-)Link, so it should be.
The power drain raises with this firmware, round about 20 to 25% per day... before ~10%.
Maybe they will fix it again...

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Santey287

New Participant

Hello, do you have any information about solving the problem with periodic frame skipping? This is described in more detail here https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/Get-Help/v46-frame-drops-stutters-headroom-dips/td-p/997865/page/23 and https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/yunj4w/q2_wired_link_visibly_stuttering_and_link_details/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_

button. I was waiting for this to be fixed at 47, now 49 and the problem is not solved. It's hard for me to play my favorite games because of the twitching picture and it makes me very sad.

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bright90

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Yeah, this is an issue I’m experiencing. It’s been a few months since I’ve been using my quest 2 - games used to run pretty smooth over airline/cable. Now with current software version, it’s just dropping frames all the time.

I’ve spent more time trying to fix issues in the last week than just using the headset…. How disappointing

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