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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
July 11, 2022

Meta Quest build v42 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of July 11th, 2022.

Move 2.0

We’ve been listening to your suggestions to improve Move in order to make it easier to track your VR fitness progress. Last month, we began to roll out tracking and viewing your VR fitness stats on your phone. iOS users also had the option to sync with Apple Health. Today, we’re sharing a couple new improvements to Oculus Move:

  • Earn Move Achievements for hitting your fitness goals. In the Move app, find the dedicated tab to track your fitness milestones, like 5000 calories burned or 100 daily goals completed, no matter what game or app you’re moving in.
  • Visualize your fitness progress compared to the previous week with Move Trends.
    • And for those interested in more fitness stats, check out your peak and average intensity (calories burned per minute).
  • If you haven’t used Move yet, learn more about Move and how it can help you track your VR fitness goals.

Messenger

While in VR, you can now see how many unread Messenger chats you have directly from the app icon.

Air Link

Air Link is moving out of the experimental settings panel and will now be available under system settings. We’ve also made the following improvements:

  • We’ve added a Connection benchmarking tool to help understand and improve the quality of your wireless connection.
  • We’ve improved the UI to simplify the number of steps required to set up Link and Air Link.
  • Previously, we announced the beta release of Air Link Windows 11 compatibility. With this release, Air Link is now fully compatible with Windows 11.

Parental Supervision

We’ve added the ability for parents to enable and disable social features for any teens that they supervise. Turning on social feature supervision will prevent teens from:

  • Creating and joining parties.
  • Visiting or watching VR content together in anyone's Meta Horizon Home.
  • Sending/receiving chat messages on Oculus Chat and Messenger in VR.
  • Posting on Facebook from the VR share option.

We’re also adding a new notification for when a teen ages out of a content rating.

Display Contrast

We’ve introduced a contrast slider to help improve overall visibility while in VR. This includes text, controls, backgrounds etc.

  • You can adjust your display contrast from your Meta Quest headset by selecting Apps > Settings > Accessibility and then moving the slider to your desired contrast level.
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    MayaXx821
    New Participant
    July 12, 2022

    Hello.

    I'm having problems using the airlink in my Quest 2 after the update. In the previous version i had no problems connecting with my Laptop, but now when i try to connect the Oculus with my laptop, it stays in the loading screen indefinitely. I tried to connect many times but the Oculus stays in the loading screen (in the desktop app it says that the Oculus is Active).

      NorbertNoBacon
      NorbertNoBacon
      Inspiring
      July 12, 2022

      There were issues with AirLink on v41 with lag and stuttering, so was really hoping they'd fixed it. Are both the desktop app and Quest 2 updated to v42? I sometimes find one gets the update before the other and this could cause problems if there are significant changes. I usually wait for the PC app to update and then update the Quest 2 afterwards. However, it wouldn't be a surprise if they managed to somehow break it again. Seems par the course with these developers, too much rushing to get features out without proper bug testing and quality control. They also need to also update the link UI so it has some parity with the native Quest UI. It's not only dated, but missing some really basic features like switching between party and app chat.

        TaaberMan
        TaaberMan
        Participant
        July 12, 2022

        Not fixed in quest 2 v42 and oculus pc v41. Test here. Same stutter and lag. Waitting pc versio to update 42 if that not works im gonna burn these headset in my back yard.

        Core i7-12700KF, Asus GeForce RTX 3090 OC, G.Skill 32GB Trident Z RGB, Samsung 1TB 980 M.2
          5ephir0th
          Participant
          July 12, 2022

          Will contrast slider works for apps, games and over PCVR link? Or is like color space that only work on the standalone home?

            tanubon
            Inspiring
            July 12, 2022

            No contrast setting. Before that, I don't have app filter setting of v41. lol

              Recluse205
              Up and Coming
              July 12, 2022

              Interestingly, I seem to have gotten these updates but the Software Version still reports 41.  One thing that persists (which is the most ANNOYING UI THING) is that when the Quest LINK popup comes up and says "CLICK HERE FOR QUICK SETTINGS" clicking THERE DOESN'T take you to QUICK settings.  You have to ignore that and click on the ACTUAL QUICK SETTINGS icon where the clock is. It would be a nice Quality of Life update to FIX THIS and either let the click open the QUICK SETTINGS or remove the line on the popup. I know better than to click it by now, but it always annoys me  🙂

                BubblzZz
                BubblzZz
                Participant
                July 12, 2022

                Constant and unpredictable stutter, frame hitching and lag with Airlink since v40 +, despite the performance monitor showing steady frames. Is this ever going to be addressed? New software updates always seem to break more than they fix.   

                  Ryanality
                  RyanalityAuthor
                  Honored Contributor
                  July 12, 2022

                  The team is working on some improvements with Air Link connections. There's also an open issue here which suggests changing the dynamic frame rate. You may want to try that if you haven't yet.

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                    chriscath666
                    New Participant
                    July 16, 2022

                    Is there an open issue too  for the bad performance stutter/lag from pc link since update v41

                    tanubon
                    Inspiring
                    July 12, 2022

                    Installed latest update, but version number is 41.0.0.124.268. PC app version is 42.0.0.136.285 (PTC).

                      TomCgcmfc
                      Honored Contributor
                      July 13, 2022

                      tanubon  I suspect, like me, your Quest is still on v41.  Seems like a few v42 features were rolled out yesterday (Air Link and messenger) but I don't think this is a full v42 update because for me there was no required restart that is normally required for major updates.  Up to you but I suggest you opt out of the oculus desktop pc app public beta and stick with non-beta v41 for now.  Cheers.

                      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
                      Koldsmith
                      New Participant
                      July 13, 2022

                      Update installed, now my headset won't charge while in use.
                      I've tried using the official supplied charging cable and official plug as well as other charging cables, powerbanks and other plugs.
                      Thanks for ruining my headset Oculus.

                        Cythkato
                        Cythkato
                        New Participant
                        July 13, 2022

                        Using Airlink on Quest 2 v42 with desktop app v42.0.0.136.285 at 72hz 1.3x resolution on Windows 11, about once every 10 to 30 seconds I was getting a noticeable stutter with artifacting that sometimes looked like screen tearing or sometimes like a flashing pattern, mostly along the right half of my view.  This was pretty easily noticeable while viewing desktop, and maybe a bit less noticeable while playing games.  Had never noticed this issue before.

                         

                        Resolved by disabling Mobile ASW in Oculus Debug Tool.  I left (PC) Asynchronous Spacewarp enabled.

                          TomCgcmfc
                          Honored Contributor
                          July 13, 2022

                          Cythkato  I found the same thing back with v40 and also needed to disable mobile ASW.  Since v41 I’ve found leaving it on Auto works fine.  I think that Meta needs to do a bit more work on that feature.

                          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
                            Squeeze22
                            New Participant
                            July 13, 2022

                            The airlink almost doesn't work for me after the update. Before it was very smooth. Now with new feature it says "poor quality" in airlink menu and when I connect to my PC it seems that the frame rate is about just 2fps, I can't even move the controller and click on something. PC is on Win 10.

                            Recluse205
                            Up and Coming
                            July 13, 2022

                            I don't know if this will help.  I am getting the same poor quality warnings, (70 ms latency) but AIRLINK seems to work OK for me.  I usually use the LINK Cable and use either the DEBUG tool or Oculus Tray Tool to set my ENCODE BITRATE higher (300-450).  If I try to use AIRLINK under these conditions, it stutters and lags and I can barely even access any menu items.  When I decide to use AIRLINK, I always go in and change my ENCODE BITRATE to 0 (the default, which, I believe is somewhere between 100 and 150). I could jump in and run Elite Dangerous over AirLink  relatively smoothly, I think it is a little more laggy than it used to be especially inside a station, but not too bad. By the way, in the Headset, I have AIRLINK set to Dynamic Bitrate between 10 and 185 Mbps

                            Coffinmaker22
                            New Participant
                            July 13, 2022

                            How do I get v42 on my quest 2

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