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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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    ozeftorrente
    New Participant
    July 16, 2022

    when it will be available for other users? I'm still using version 41

    Dadbart
    Participant
    July 17, 2022

    Yes, my Windows 11 has been working fine since v41. However, after my HMD updated to 42 yesterday I noticed my Wi-Fi was reporting TX-RX at 866 instead of the normal 1200 I had right before the update. It's as though it is no longer connecting at Wifi6. Restarted and disconnected-reconnected several times. Anyone else seeing this with 42?

     

    Where is the connection benchmarking tool? Settings or in the Airlink environment somewhere?

    TomCgcmfc
    Honored Contributor
    July 17, 2022

    Dadbart  I think v42 Air Link reporting is still work in progress so you may want to ignore some of its info for now, especially if it’s working ok.  If you go to your normal home quick settings WiFi, select your connection and scroll down to advanced it should give you your WiFi speed.  Mine with a WiFi 5 router correctly shows 866mbps.

    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
    Dadbart
    Participant
    July 17, 2022

    @TomCgcmfc Thanks for trying, but this has nothing to do with Airlink. The Wi-Fi settings, Advanced is reporting 866 now instead of the 1200 it should be. I am on Wi-Fi 6. It showed 1200 just moments before the update and now since the update it is reporting 866, still a day later. That seems to indicate it is no longer connecting at Wi-Fi 6. I have rebooted the router and tested with a couple of other devices that can connect at that rate. The other devices are still showing 1200 TX-RX. Something happened with the v42 update.

    pilot140
    Participant
    July 18, 2022

    I wish they would allow you to remove Move from an account loaded it and it's not for me, but I cannot

    uninstall it, I did stop the data but would like it gone.

    TomCgcmfc
    Honored Contributor
    July 19, 2022

    pilot140  It does not take much storage or resources.  Same goes with other Oculus apps like Browser. So why worry about it imho.

    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
    Dadbart
    Participant
    July 19, 2022

    Yeah, VD is what tipped off first. It had always reported 1200, and then right after update reported 866. That's when I started the other trouble shooting and stat checking.

    maloiik
    New Participant
    July 19, 2022

    After updating to v42 both on my headset and my PC, now i have to restart BOTH to actually get an AirLink connection going. Everything was working smoothly before.

    You are forcing software updates on us that are half baked and badly tested for quality. How could i possibly keep trust in Meta and their future headsets, when such fundamental features of the software refuse to work correctly?

    What a **bleep** show

    BubblzZz
    BubblzZz
    Participant
    July 19, 2022

    With both my PC and Headset on V42 now, Airlink has much improved. 120hz finally works again without constant stutter and glitching.....but now regular cabled link is totally broken. Sigh. Constantly disconnecting, stutter and glitching...Fixing one thing always seems to break something else. Oculus PCVR software is so unreliable that I'm considering just buying a Valve Index at this point.  

      AlexiTQ
      Up and Coming
      July 20, 2022

      Oh hey, have you fixed any long standing issues yet or are you still ignoring them? That's a rhetorical question by the way. What I really mean is, **bleep** you. 

        TomCgcmfc
        Honored Contributor
        July 20, 2022

        I now have non-beta v42 on both my Q2 and pc app.  Both Link and Air Link work ok but I found I needed to drop the bitrates on both down a bit to avoid stuttering.  For link 300mbps and for air link 110mbps dynamic.  The net results are ok but distant objects are not quite as good and/or pop in later.  Starting to make me appreciate my dedicated PCVR Vive Pro a bit more, lol!

        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
          lensmandave
          Honored Contributor
          July 20, 2022

          Got the updates too. Have to say, I'm not getting any of the stuttering that others are reporting. I normally run the Quest at maximum resolution, 72Hz and bitrate locked at 200 Mbps. I cranked the refresh to 90Hz and ran the Half Life Alex scene that TaaberMan illustrated in his video clip...no stutters or dropped frames for me. Go figure.

          Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz. Asus-Z170-PRO MB - Nvidia RTX 3080 ti - 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ HYPERX SAVAGE.
            loSvelto
            Participant
            July 21, 2022

            May I ask, what is your full Oculus PC software version?
            Do you apply any setting in the NVidia panel or Debug tool?

            MSI Z690 A DDR4 - i7 12700KF - Gainward RTX 3080 Phantom GS - 32GB DDR4 3600MHz
            loSvelto
            Participant
            July 20, 2022

            At least you were able to fix the stutters! I've tried every bitrate setting from 0 (man does compression look bad on low bitrate) to 500 but the stutters are there. Subtle, random but frequent. It's so annoying!
            It was working flawlessly, smooth and with good performance, then I've updated the PC software to V42. After the micro-stuttering started, I've updated the Quest 2 firmware to V42 hoping it would fix it. nay...

             

            It looks exactly the same kind of stuttering I observed whenever I tried Windows 11 (and then had to revert back to Windows 10 for the same reason)


            Meta, stop adding stuff, we don't need new features. Or at least give us the possiblity to choose the software version.
            This is the last hybrid VR headset I buy. I believe 99% of PCVR users would agree.

            MSI Z690 A DDR4 - i7 12700KF - Gainward RTX 3080 Phantom GS - 32GB DDR4 3600MHz
              BubblzZz
              BubblzZz
              Participant
              July 20, 2022

              Yup, couldn't agree more. I use my Quest 2 for PCVR probably 99% of the time, and I'd say 99% of the time it gives me some sort of issue where I have to restart it just to connect to Airlink/Link, disconnects randomly mid game, frequent and consistent micro stuttering with high end PC specs and wifi 6 router, microphone issues. I kid you not, every time there some new issue that happens that I have to deal with. Can't wait for the next dedicated PCVR headset to come out, whatever it will be, never again buying a hybrid from "Meta".      

                TaaberMan
                TaaberMan
                Participant
                July 20, 2022

                Oculus PC Software v42, Oculus Quest 2 v42

                Same sh1t, different day.

                 

                Core i7-12700KF

                Asus GeForce RTX 3070 DUAL

                G.Skill 32GB Trident Z RGB

                Samsung 1TB 980 M.2

                Asus RT-AX55 Dual-band -WiFi 6

                 

                99% of people have this RIGHT? This stutter? Right? I uploaded new video what happend on versio 42.

                https://youtube.com/shorts/OEdpjDUUGj4 

                Core i7-12700KF, Asus GeForce RTX 3090 OC, G.Skill 32GB Trident Z RGB, Samsung 1TB 980 M.2
                  loSvelto
                  Participant
                  July 21, 2022

                  I was able to determine what causes the stutter in my system.

                  Whenever an instance of the ExperTool software is running, the issue occurs.
                  This software is a GPU Led control/overclocking tool for Gainward Nvidia GPUs.

                   

                  It doesn’t matter the GPU overclock, the issue occurs whenever this software is running, even reduced to tray.

                  As soon as I close the software, the video stream in my headset is perfectly smooth, no random lost frames.

                  MSI Z690 A DDR4 - i7 12700KF - Gainward RTX 3080 Phantom GS - 32GB DDR4 3600MHz
                    lensmandave
                    Honored Contributor
                    July 21, 2022

                    Yep, way to go. Just turn off all the fluff that is not absolutely essential for your games to run 🙂

                    Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.5GHz. Asus-Z170-PRO MB - Nvidia RTX 3080 ti - 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ HYPERX SAVAGE.
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