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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
May 18, 2023

Meta Quest build v54 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of May 18, 2023 and will be rolling out to Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 headsets. 

 

Custom Skybox View 

Enhance or personalize the Skybox View that surrounds your Home environment in VR by selecting one of the preinstalled options or uploading your own image. You can manage your Skybox View from the Personalization tab in Settings. Check out our Custom Skybox View blog for more details.

Note: Custom Skybox View is not available in groups and may not work in all environments. 

 

Follow request improvements

We’re making it easier to manage your follow requests to connect with other users. Follow requests will now be grouped together at the top of your notifications. Selecting this notification will take you to the People tab where you can view and respond to all your follow requests.

 

Guardian improvements

We are improving your headset's ability to remember more boundaries, so you can spend less time redrawing them.

  • This will be rolling out gradually.

 

App Library improvements 

We’ve updated the look and feel of your App Library.  Filter and sort are now integrated into search for a more robust search experience.

 

Avatar mirror rollout

The avatar mirror in your Horizon Home is now available in more environments, allowing you to easily view and personalize your avatar. 

 

Improved Quest Touch Pro controller tracking

We have improved the tracking performance for Quest Touch Pro controllers, more reliably positioning controllers in VR based on their position in real life.

 

Light theme 

We moved Light theme from Experimental Features to System Settings. Light theme allows you to select a lighter color scheme for menus and notifications in VR. To change your display theme, select Personalization from Settings, then select Display Theme. 

 

Physical Space setting

We’ve combined the Boundary, Passthrough and Objects & Furniture settings into the Physical Space setting. 

 

Customize more notifications in VR

You can now turn on notifications in VR for more apps from the Notifications menu in Settings.

  •           This will be rolling out gradually.

 

    90 replies

    Ryanality
    RyanalityAuthor
    Honored Contributor
    May 18, 2023

    There's also a new feature for people that have Gamepads connected with their headsets. Check out this post for more details.

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      TomCgcmfc
      Honored Contributor
      May 19, 2023

      I'm currently on v45ptc on both my Q2 and QPro.  I have not seen any updates for my QPro but I did get a recent update on my Q2.  I assume that staying on PTC will ensure that I'm also getting the latest v54.  Is that correct?  Thanks.

      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
      Stugabaranda
      Up and Coming
      May 19, 2023

      Guardian improvements and Physical Space settings...  Interesting 

       

      Meta Quest 2 256GB, GC Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Intel 12th Gen Intel i5-12400F, 16Gb RAM, Windows 11 home 22H2. Connected with dedicated router via ethernet cat 6 with pc and to Quest 2 on wifi 5 ch 36
      Moriarti4
      Moriarti4
      Up and Coming
      May 19, 2023

      How is this in release now ?

      Skybox doesn't work ?!

      App library looks worse than before NOT improved ! 

      Still only got the same amount of mirrors in certain homes ?

      Improved tracking on pro controllers ? You mean you fixed what you broke in the last 2 updates ?

      Light theme has been there for ages ?????

      You mean the notifications that pop up when you don't want them and don't when you do ?

      Ohhh! You changed a directory name ! (bet that took some coding?!?)

      And let's not even mention Air Link issues! lol

      This isn't just me stating these facts there's over 100 posts in the PTC v54 thread about it, with zero answers from you ?

        BadBoyDustTTV
        Participant
        June 2, 2023

        Can you actually mention the Air Link issues? Or direct me to the most recent forum post where I can join the conversation on that?

        Thanks!

        CPercky
        Participant
        June 2, 2023

        The causes for Air Link problems can be different, you can find several discussions here that deal with the topic.
        https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/new/
        https://www.reddit.com/r/QuestPro/
        https://discord.com/channels/1030760266113224747/1030760266767536153
        https://discord.gg/EgdehV9J4b

          Exius86
          Participant
          May 19, 2023

          You forgot to mention that it completely breaks Meta Move. That was reported in PTC and still Meta decides to release it...

            ShocksVR
            Inspiring
            May 23, 2023

            Yup !  Disappointing that Move still hasn't been fixed.  This should be a priority fix as many adults use their Quest for fitness apps/subscriptions. 

             

            Also, my TouchPro controller tracking seems to be glitchy with the latest v54 release.  I didn't really notice anything with the earlier v54 revisions, but the latest releases makes it where my controllers will momentarily lose tracking for a split second then pop back to being tracked.  Happens maybe once every 10-15 minutes.  Especially annoying when playing VR shooters since you're often still while aiming with the controllers; maybe the sleep/standby algorithm is kicking in too soon because it thinks I'm idle ?  This wasn't an issue prior to v54 (v50-v53 TouchPro tracking was solid).   Annoying, but still useable; just some feedback.

            i7-7700k, Zotac RTX 3080 AMP Holo (10G), QuestPro, Quest 2 Previous: Oculus GO, Oculus RIFT - 3 sensor Room-scale, Oculus Rift S
            Ryanality
            RyanalityAuthor
            Honored Contributor
            May 23, 2023

            Hi ShocksVR, I'm going to check in with the team and I just want to make sure I've got the issue you're talking about correct. This is for Move not tracking movement for secondary accounts, but tracking admin/primary accounts fine, right?

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            Alakelele
            Up and Coming
            May 20, 2023

            Hello there and thank you for sharing those notes, one thing that has been bugging me on this release is the fact that passthrough is reset at every start of the device.
            It used to remember your settings when it was restarting but it's no longer the case. Could you help us out on this topic Ryanality ?

              Rkkeith
              New Participant
              May 22, 2023

              Ever since this update, my Oculus Go will not pair any longer.  Have tried all recommended troubleshooting with no success.  How can I rollback a version to test.  It was fine until this update came through.  

              viiqiuio
              Participant
              May 22, 2023

              Hi Ryanality  my quest pro keeps popping out "allow access to data blabla" popup, while I don't connect it to any other devices at all. And no reaction after I click on any button on it.

               

                Stugabaranda
                Up and Coming
                May 22, 2023

                HI,
                when a firmware is officially released
                I suggest perfecting the release notes by also adding possible bugs, especially if they coincide with those reported and not resolved by the development team during the ptc phase. in my opinion this would avoid less disappointment on users' expectations in general and, no less, a way to gratify the commitment of all the users who are part of the ptc, and help the development team with their reports.
                I would also suggest that Meta reward the most proactive Ptc users, with credit that can be used on the Oculus store (for example).
                I haven't been part of the PTC for some time, so I suggest this thing certainly not out of personal interest, but simply because if one day Meta will grace us to show us something stable and that looks like a finished and tested product, it will also be thanks to the 'commitment of users who are part of the PTC with the concrete intent to help.

                Meta Quest 2 256GB, GC Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Intel 12th Gen Intel i5-12400F, 16Gb RAM, Windows 11 home 22H2. Connected with dedicated router via ethernet cat 6 with pc and to Quest 2 on wifi 5 ch 36
                  okeyone
                  okeyone
                  Up and Coming
                  May 22, 2023

                  Update 53 Bricked my Pro I'm getting a replacement back today. Kind of scared of the PTC now because my Q2 is out of warranty and not sure if I want to chance my Pro again.

                    philmanagexr
                    Up and Coming
                    May 22, 2023

                    just curious, how did v53 brick your Pro? 

                    Was it something that happened while running the update process, or was it after v53 was fully installed and then something happened to brick it?

                      okeyone
                      okeyone
                      Up and Coming
                      May 22, 2023

                      After it was installed strange things like just turning off or clicking a game takes you to home menu. After awhile when talking it out of standby it would just go off and then shutting down to restart the Meta logo would show then it would just go black screen. Support had me do a factory reset and all it would do was go to logo then black screen. Good news is I got the replacement back today so I'm loading up my games. The bad news is the new headset came with Version 53 installed 🤔😳🤣

                        Stugabaranda
                        Up and Coming
                        May 23, 2023
                        I read on reddit about a user who got v54 and now all apps installed from sidequest won't start anymore.
                         
                        “After v54, all my sideloaded apps are not working. Is there a workaround?
                         
                        It's still unclear whether we're talking about apps he already had installed or apps he's installing now that won't launch, or pirated apps, but in the latter case he can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
                         
                         In any case, I thought it appropriate to report it here so, when in doubt, everyone is free to decide how to move and run for cover if it is still on v53 or v51.
                        In the meantime, Ryanality could you ask the dev team and inform if indeed v54 still supports the work of pc sidequested apps or if Meta decided not to make sideloaded apps work either in general?
                         
                        or if someone who has already received v54 official to check and let know how things are on their device.
                         
                        Thank you
                        Meta Quest 2 256GB, GC Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Intel 12th Gen Intel i5-12400F, 16Gb RAM, Windows 11 home 22H2. Connected with dedicated router via ethernet cat 6 with pc and to Quest 2 on wifi 5 ch 36
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