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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.

 

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    Moriarti4
    Moriarti4
    Up and Coming
    June 2, 2023

    Question ? Ryanality have you any idea as to when the PTC will get v55 as meta seems to have already announced that it will be released in June ? and normally it takes a couple of weeks of PTC testing before release ? 

    Ryanality
    RyanalityAuthor
    Honored Contributor
    June 2, 2023

    If I were a betting man, I would probably say early next week looks good. 🙂

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      Stugabaranda
      Up and Coming
      June 3, 2023

      it's been almost three weeks since the announcement of the release of the stable version of v54 and still nothing on my device.
      I hope all this waiting means getting a well-functioning firmware, without any of the bugs reported when it was in beta phase, and with some concrete changes besides the customized skyboxes. in the release notes mention is made to the improvements of the guardian (even if "gradual implementation" I feel so much "don't kid yourself") and the setting of the physical space which is another aspect that is very close to my heart since I trust in a quick return of sofa and desk and why not, in the wake of the enthusiasm shown by Ryanality  for what is coming, also to see some other piece of furniture.

      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
        COYG316
        New Participant
        June 3, 2023

        When should this be available.  Still not available for me?

          SkyhawkAus
          Participant
          June 19, 2023

          You don't want it, lots of bugs it seems!

           

            keester90
            Participant
            June 19, 2023

            I started the return process with this headset. I am too old and too busy to pour time into this. I’ll look again a little later, and let y’all know how the return goes. 

              NicoEng
              NicoEng
              Up and Coming
              June 4, 2023

              I have wondered as I my quest 2 has been on firmware v53 for so long and v54 was supposed to roll out over two weeks ago will v54 just be skipped and we all wait for v55? 

              NicoEng
              NicoEng
              Up and Coming
              June 4, 2023

              Sorry it was not ment as a criticism it was a genuine question, as v55 is announced for June which is now is the further roll out of v54 still going on for us that dont have it yet?

              Arkgent68
              Arkgent68
              Participant
              June 6, 2023

              Oh so we're about to get 55 now?

              TomCgcmfc
              Honored Contributor
              June 6, 2023

              Arkgent68  Only if you’re enrolled in the quest beta program.  You need to use your smartphone app to do this.  Otherwise just wait until it goes final.

              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
              jimmie312807
              Participant
              June 5, 2023

              Everyone still waiting for v54 should probably count themselves lucky considering the issues people have reported about it. Probably be a good thing if it were skipped in favour of v55.

                Stugabaranda
                Up and Coming
                June 6, 2023

                I agree with you.
                But now it's being released, it won't be skipped so much so that I just received it and what can I say... it just works. it is quite evident that it is an incomplete firmware.
                Let's hope that with v55 or whatever it will be called, it will be better.

                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
                Arkgent68
                Arkgent68
                Participant
                June 6, 2023

                Here it is June 5th and I still haven't received the v54 update.  When will I get this?

                Stugabaranda
                Up and Coming
                June 6, 2023

                HI.
                V54 just arrived on my Quest 2.
                The Skybox option is present (it must be activated in the experimental functions menu before being able to see it at the end of the virtual environments menu)
                The library has changed visually.
                There is a magnifying glass on the dock that does nothing.
                I didn't find any "physical space" settings
                and the configuration of the room remains in the experimental functions with the difference that now the desk no longer even appears in the addable objects.
                Avatar mirrors have been added to all environments.
                No problems on normal use.
                I haven't tested airlink yet.In direct touch mode with the small panel, the same can now be taken with one hand and moved at will without having to pinch the white line at the bottom and this I must admit is a nice improvement.I hope v55 actually introduces something related to "enhancing the Guardian" and this "physical space" because as I imagined, these entries were added to the v54 release notes, but right now they are just words.

                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
                Zythoxic
                Zythoxic
                Participant
                June 6, 2023

                I just updated my Quest 2 to the new v54 and it made my Oculus Air Link basically unusable... I get a massive cross flickering over my whole screen every half a second or something and it really hurts the eyes... The v53 update already massively broke my 5 Ghz connection which took me a long time to fix (yes I'm using the right wifi channel and yes I tried multiple resolution and refresh rate settings, it's the same for all of them). But now this flickering cross is preventing me completely from using Air Link... 

                 

                This just happened as I updated to v54. I updated from v53 because I started having a laggy connection again even though all settings were correct and I restarted multiple times. Now it's not laggy anymore but this massive flickering started and when I move my head a little bit THEN it starts with massive lag spikes... My 5 GHz connection is completely fine. It's just the Quest 2 Wi-Fi drivers that have been broken since v53... You need to stop releasing broken updates... (I got the v53 update without being in PTC and I couldnt downgrade again...)

                I heard a lot of people have had issues with Air Link on v53, has no one had any new issues since v54 yet?

                  Zythoxic
                  Zythoxic
                  Participant
                  June 7, 2023

                  Little update: I managed to fix the big cross across the screen by turning off Mobile ASW in the Debugging Tool. Kinda forgot I turned that on... But I am still getting massive lag spikes when I move around a tiny bit with Air Link... I even got a new router that now has WiFi 6 and it's the exact same issue... I'm using 5 GHz and WiFi Channel 36. I can be in my room or right next ot the router it's the exact same issue... Also tried every single resolution and refresh rate setting, no success... All the same... Messaged the Support directly now and hope they can help...

                    NomadsAnIsland
                    Honored Contributor
                    June 10, 2023

                    Oh, thanks for this. My headset updated to v54 a couple days ago and I noticed the big flashing X/cross. At first I thought it was my graphics driver which I had updated the day before. I downgraded the driver which did not eliminate the problem. Then I saw your post. Disabling ASW eliminated the flashing cross.

                    Not that it matters since Air Link has been basically useless for me since v48/49. With my AMD RX 590 there is a noticeable visual distortion in the right "eye" and the screen resolution is not as sharp as it was before v49. Also when I have a fixed bitrate the resolution goes in and out from blocky (no detail) to somewhat fuzzy/grainy.

                    Everyone points the blame at the AMD drivers but these problems started with the Meta update and the AMD drivers were the same between versions. I tried going back 2+ years of driver versions but the problems remained the same.

                    Even with the Link Cable I am not able to get the screen resolution as sharp as before v48/49.

                    Gaming isn't important enough for me to spend $400 or more to upgrade my GPU. I have some VR games and apps on my PC that I can no longer play. But I mainly used Air Link to access the remote/virtual desktop.

                    Virtual Desktop has been unaffected by any AMD driver updates so I use that exclusively to access my PC desktop while wearing my headset. Immersed was unaffected as well but I uninstalled it. I take this as signs that the screen problems I'm seeing are more Meta's issue than the AMD drivers.

                    OrionFowl
                    New Participant
                    June 10, 2023

                    What are you on about mate? I just want to use my headset while lying in bed.

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