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Ryanality
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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    NomadsAnIsland
    Honored Contributor
    September 30, 2022

    Everything is now updated to v44 on phone, PC and headset. Advance camera settings available and working. I don't share my headset but it looks like the unlock pattern and supervision options are there.

     

    I do notice that with Link I had to push up the render resolution setting to 1.5× from 1.3× to get the same level of "smoothness". I also notice there is a distinct distortion on like the 1/8th of the right hand FOV on the right "eye" display only (checked by closing one eye at a time). Neither of these were present prior to v44.

      AREMIDPHOENIX
      Participant
      October 1, 2022

      How did you get the advanced video options? Factory reset? 

        Ryanality
        RyanalityAuthor
        Honored Contributor
        September 30, 2022

        Hi all, thanks for the heads up regarding guardian (no pun intended). I'll bring it up to the team.

         

        You should also be able to get out of that state by recentering the play area by holding down the oculus home button until the circle completes on the display.

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          CrimsonSky3000
          Participant
          September 30, 2022

          Recentering doesn't work. Still stays above head with guardian disabled.

          Ryanality
          RyanalityAuthor
          Honored Contributor
          September 30, 2022

          You could also try grabbing the bar and pulling it down. If it's still not working for you, the team is looking into it now.

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          popsi1091
          New Participant
          September 30, 2022

          everytime i load up home a screen (what the vr sees) pops up and bugs out my pc

          NomadsAnIsland
          Honored Contributor
          October 1, 2022

          Ok, seems like there are problems with Air Link.

           

          I can no longer use bitrate setting of 200 and have to set it to minimum or the controls lag/lockup something fierce.

          Even with the render resolution cranked up to the highest settings the images are still "grainy" with lots of aliasing "jaggies" on lines and edges.

          Significant distortion on the right "eye".

           

          When I switch to the Link cable I can run the render settings at 1.3× and get clean images. No significant distortion on the right "eye".

           

          Basically Air Link is unusable at the moment, I can barely read on screen text.

          SectionOne
          Up and Coming
          October 1, 2022

          Please add 2.5mbps video compression quality setting. (HD quality)

          Not everyone needs a minimum of 5mbps with a huge file

           

          Tbone
          Up and Coming
          October 1, 2022

          After the most recent update, I get a debug window that pops up on my desktop when I used the Link Cable. I'm not sure what setting I have turned on that's causing it. If I close it, the Link connection is severed. 

           

          So now I'm stuck rendering an app three times - on the headset, mirrored on the desktop, and in a debug window.

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          Bladerah
          Up and Coming
          October 1, 2022

          I am still having the problem where my settings are not matching up to what you guys are showing. Theres no experimental option related to the camera. Anyone else going through this?

            JackPelaFox
            New Participant
            October 2, 2022

            Me too. No camera settings anywhere 🤷🏻‍:male_sign: 

              Bladerah
              Up and Coming
              October 2, 2022

              Not sure if this is being looked into yet.

              madhujeettomar
              New Participant
              October 2, 2022

              App is not functioning after updating oculus version to 44041400838600000 We created an android application where user has to launch  VRActivity from normal android activity and user will play game online using CloudXR server. It was working till previous OS version of OCULUS until new update in oculus version (44041400838600000). Now if we launch the VRActivity as root activity then it is working but launching through normal activity then it is stuck or sometimes give black screen within the window itself.

                monkeyjshow
                monkeyjshow
                Participant
                October 2, 2022

                The APKPure app store also become non-functional after the update and I had to uninstall it from two different headsets because it kept trying to open over other apps and only showed a blank screen. I'm wondering how much of the multitasking with 2D apps this update has broken.

                  Choleni
                  Choleni
                  Honored Contributor
                  October 2, 2022

                  i usually play linked to PC.....since update to v44 I can't confirm follow requests neither in vr or pc app......nothing happens when I click the notification.
                  I need to use the mobile app or unlinked Quest.
                  Is that a bug or on purpose?

                  CharlieLima526425
                  New Participant
                  October 2, 2022

                  Quest 2 updated to v44 and having stuttering every 60ish seconds via AirLink playing Red Matter 2 - When I was on v43 it was butter smooth.

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