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Ryanality
Honored Contributor
September 22, 2022

Meta Quest build v44 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of September 15, 2022.

Advanced Creator Settings

We want to empower creators to capture and deliver high quality experiences to help connect and grow engagement from their audiences. As such, we’ve added Advanced Camera Settings that can be enabled from your Experimental Settings panel in VR. Once enabled, you’ll have access to these additional camera settings:

  • Image Stabilization: Choose how much to reduce the appearance of headset movement in your videos.
    • Increasing image stabilization decreases the field of view.
  • Aspect Ratio: Choose your default format and resolution for photos and videos.
    • We heard your requests, and are happy to add that 1920x1080 or "Landscape" is now possible.
  • Frame Rate: Choose your default frame rate for videos.
    • Higher frame rates can negatively impact app performance.
  • Video Compression Quality: Choose a default bit rate for videos.
    • Higher bit rates improve video quality but also increase file size.

Parental Supervision

We continue to add features to our Parental Supervision tools for VR. Two of the newest additions include:

  • Block Developer Mode: Parents can now block teens from using their headset in developer mode through Parental Supervision tools.
    • Blocking developer mode will prevent teens from installing apps on their Meta Quest that may not be available on the Meta Quest App store using a connected device or computer.
  • Note, this will be rolling out gradually.

Unlock Pattern for Apps

You can now lock multiple apps with a single PIN entry. With this update, you can also filter and lock apps based on rating categories.

  • You can find this feature by selecting Settings > Security Settings > App Lock.
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71 replies

Honored Contributor
September 29, 2022

I got v44 on my Q2 and PC app today.  All seems to work ok.  I see the system/camera settings if I enable camera options in Experimental.  Not something I use or care about though.  I still do not see any app organisation options yet.  I see that the Oculus logo has now been removed from the power/reset panel. 

 

Only small bug I've seen so far is that when I startup my Q2 I initially see my home environment with the dashboard menu up high.  It then flashes to the usual confirm guardian panel.  Seems to work fine after that, just a bit annoying.  I have reported this to Meta. 

 

Edit; now it seems to show red points of objects around my stationary boundary and asks me to move these out of the way, go to room setup, or continue.  Pressing continue seems to advance to my Q2 home ok.  Not sure if there is a way to turn this off.  I've never turned on space sense or ever used room scale guardian.

 

Otherwise, I don't really see any significant differences in performance compared to v43 (standalone and with Air Link).  I'm always grateful when updates don't brick my Q2, lol!  Thanks Meta.

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
NicoEng
Up and Coming
September 29, 2022

I got v44 about 5 hours ago and it seems charging stopping at 53% to 84% in the last firmware is a thing of the past.

Participant
September 29, 2022

We've recently receive this update and it has apparently broken OpenXR/Vulkan support - swapchains are now invalid. Can anyone tell me how to roll back to the previous version?

Inspiring
September 29, 2022

Well,

Air Link is not hitting FPS again as it was doing in pre-win 11 days.

Headset is on 44, tried Oculus software on reular and PTC.

Graphics card up to date, OS before AND after update to 22H2.

 

2070 card.

 

Anybody else seeing this? I

Inspiring
September 29, 2022

Turns out I just can no longer increase the multiplier as before.

Less headroom. Thanks

New Participant
September 29, 2022

C'mon guys seriously literally after every update I have to factory reset my headset. I was using the headset yesterday and everything was running ok, I updated to v44 and immediately after that the guardian system got ruined. The dashboard is very high when guardian is off and I always had it turned off. Clearing the guardian doesn't help. It's literally unusable. I have to climb a ledder to be at the same level with the dashboard. If I turn the guardian on the dashboard height is ok but I'm way too close to the floor even though I set the floor distance correctly. Clearing and redoing the guardian doesn't fix it. Neither restarting. So I did a factory reset again because factory resetting became my hobby, which of course didn't fixed it.  If only we'd have an option to never update the headset again.... The headset is amazing but those updates...man...

NorbertNoBacon
Inspiring
September 30, 2022

This is a new bug they introduced, I notice it as the headset boots before guardian kicks in, the dash is really high. They don't seem to be able to develop or test anything properly before deployment without making every update a chore. What's the point of having a PTC channel?!

New Participant
September 30, 2022

Until you create parental controls to actually lock out the App Store, everything else is useless

New Participant
September 30, 2022

Also remote permission from the app. Seems like parental controls have been a joke. My kid can just download a web browser off the App Store and have full internet access

Honored Contributor
September 30, 2022

SupMyDudes11 wrote:

Also remote permission from the app. Seems like parental controls have been a joke. My kid can just download a web browser off the App Store and have full internet access


Maybe you need some stronger net filtering software like Net Nanny.

https://www.netnanny.com/

 

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
NicoEng
Up and Coming
September 30, 2022

I was a bit quick to say the charging issues that I experienced after v43 and continues in v44. The Quest 2 still stops charging before getting to 100%, I have factory reset since getting v44 but the issue still happens, when will it be fixed? 

 

To get things working again I need to boot into USB mode and simply select reboot. This is a work around but something I should not have to do. 

NicoEng
Up and Coming
September 30, 2022

I get that too, after a boot before the guardian kicks in the menu is above my head almost out of reach. Then the guardian starts and all is as it was. This issue is nothing compared to my charging issue, which I reported to support as a factory reset did not cure it 

Participant
September 30, 2022

Hi Ryan

 

There is bug when you disable guardian in v44 causing menu dashboard to float above head when restart quest.

 

Can't drag it down. Can you look into this issue please