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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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    jermx2022
    Participant
    October 2, 2022

    Hopefully this update fixes the pairing issue with phones and being stuck on the pairing screen 🤦🏾‍:male_sign:

    monkeyjshow
    monkeyjshow
    Participant
    October 6, 2022

    This isn't all update, it's a pile of bugs thrown in our faces

      saintcow
      Participant
      October 4, 2022

      Hi, this issue needs to be looked into. I have only seen it since V44 but others seemed too before, more than one is seeing it and I have confirmed that 120hz utilising Virtual Desktop the issue isn't present so it's definitely Oculus software induced. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/x5c9a6/oculus_quest_2_link_issue_flashing_pixel_artifacts/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

      AREMIDPHOENIX
      Participant
      October 4, 2022

      Where are the advanced features???? Is no one going to address this? 

        monkeyjshow
        monkeyjshow
        Participant
        October 6, 2022

        I've noticed that when I try to use 2D apps with passthrough enabled the entire passthrough view becomes extremely choppy after a few minutes. It doesn't seem to matter what app I use or which combination of apps - and I did not get any of the new experimental features, the height was all messed up and 2D apps were crashing on both headsets as soon as they started up with update v44 installed. Why is no one at Meta responding to these issues? I can see that I am far from the only one experiencing these bugs. Was this some kind of alpha preview that accidentally got released into the wild? Y'all need to do a v45 fix like yesterday. Maybe you should just let the Oculus guys go back to running Oculus? This is ridiculous - especially after increasing the price by $100

          SuperHwan
          Inspiring
          October 6, 2022

          Does the v44 version not support OpenXR?

            TomCgcmfc
            Honored Contributor
            October 6, 2022

            SuperHwan  I’m using OpenXR toolkit with msfs 2020 with my Q2/rtx3090 and it works fine with Air Link.

            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
              SuperHwan
              Inspiring
              October 6, 2022

              Apk files containing OpenXR won't run on Oculus Quest2 after v44 version update. It runs fine on devices that have not updated v44.

               

              my headset version is my headset version is 46.0.0.219.0.405105920. 

              I'm not in the PTC.

              why v46?

              TomCgcmfc
              Honored Contributor
              October 7, 2022

              Seems to be a forum problem right now.  I have posted a reply to the previous post and it keeps disappearing.

              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
              CrimsonSky3000
              Participant
              October 7, 2022

              Another bug found. When I power on or restart my quest 1 and leave it sitting it doesn't go to sleep. Can hear fan spinning and white power light still on. When put headset on screen is blank.

               

              Once I press power button on/off it goes to sleep fine then.

               

              Just tested it works fine if I'm wearing headset while powering on or restarting.

               

              Just happens when power on without headset on.

                Bladerah
                Up and Coming
                October 14, 2022

                Has there been any update on the missing settings? I’ve gotten v46 and still don’t have the camera settings.

                  AREMIDPHOENIX
                  Participant
                  October 14, 2022

                  You’d think they’d WANT us to make and share videos 🤷🏽‍:male_sign:.

                  petelurie
                  Participant
                  October 15, 2022

                  My issues has now been fully resolved, and I am getting much better picture and frames.  The issue was changing the bitrate on the OTT or ODT.  now that this has not been changed I dont get any more white lines on the screen.  Can still change FOV and sharpening, but truthfully the options in the headset make it very good at Supersampling 1.5 with 90Hrz.  Thanks

                  SeptemberCorp
                  SeptemberCorp
                  Inspiring
                  October 15, 2022

                  Like other users, Advanced Camera Settings are missed in my account.

                  (Screenshoots are in spanish because I'm spanish)

                   

                  Not available in settings:

                   

                   

                  Not available in experimental features:

                  Experimental features

                   

                  My account is set to administrator in my Quest 2, and the Advanced Camera Settings are missed.

                  Administrator


                  If other person try to login in my Quest 2 with their own account, they have Advanced Camera Settings in my Quest 2. But my account haven't.

                   

                  I've now the v46 and doesn't work, but when I had v44 did't work too.


                  If I try to log in to another user's Quest 2. I still haven't Advanced Camera Settings. Even If the owner has Advanced Camera Settings.

                   

                  I've tried to contact with support (Ticket 5746929) but the only answer I get is to factory reset my Quest 2. I've factory reset my Quest 2 many times but still not working. Other thing they say it's that I've activated Public Test Channel. But isn't true. I've never activated PTC and if I check the PTC appears not available for me.

                   

                  In the Meta Quest android app PTC appears unavailable:

                  Translated to english says "Public Test Channel: Enrollment in the public test channel is complete. Please check back for availability later."

                   

                  In my Quest 2 there is no trace that PTC is activated.

                   

                  I think it's something with accounts (because in same Quest 2, only my account haven't this feature) but support doesn't fix the problem (Ticket 5746929). They only recommend factory resets. 

                    AREMIDPHOENIX
                    Participant
                    October 15, 2022

                    Muchisimas gracias por todo esa informacion amigo!!! 

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