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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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    g0dmak3r
    Up and Coming
    June 8, 2023

    I'm having issues with the dashboard on airlink with HAGS turned on in windows 11. Major lag when viewing desktop while a game is running. Only happens with HAGS on. Fine with it off. But I'd like to see it be looked at so I can keep it on.

    TechnoStone
    Participant
    June 9, 2023

    HAGS doesn't work well with VR in general, especially while streaming. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/r6vjrx/psa_update_real_fix_for_the_controller_tracking

      COYG316
      New Participant
      June 9, 2023

      I've finally got V54 but there is no option anywhere for custom skybox? 

      NomadsAnIsland
      Honored Contributor
      June 10, 2023

      I thought so too, but first you have to activate the option in Experimental Features and then at the very bottom of the Virtual Environments screen (scroll down) you'll see the option for the Skybox customization.

        NicoEng
        NicoEng
        Up and Coming
        June 10, 2023

        Just had my Q2 and PC update to v54. I don't think HAGS is on, I will check but all seems fine so far the new skybox feature works. I do not think the App menu update looks like an improvement to me. I have not seen any changes in the guardian yet. 

        OrionFowl
        New Participant
        June 10, 2023

        Where did lying down mode go? Please bring this back or let me roll back to v53.

        NomadsAnIsland
        Honored Contributor
        June 10, 2023

        Well it looks like the Home Environment has been ripped out of Link/Air Link Oculus App. The EXE files have been removed from my PC Oculus app with the v54 update.

          tanubon
          Inspiring
          June 10, 2023

          I hope rumor of renewal of Home is true.

          JohSm67
          Inspiring
          June 10, 2023

          Time for a new Thread!

          Just got PTC v55.0.0.71.731 on my Quest Pro and it feels fast and stable!

          Nice Wi-Fi option under experimental, It enables you to get alot of great information about your Wi-Fi Link/Speed and other! Nice…

          I’m in love with my Quest Pro, cant use the Quest 2 any longer it feels so outdated!

          JohSm
          NicoEng
          NicoEng
          Up and Coming
          June 10, 2023

          That's good to hear maybe a full relese of v55 will be nice and stable for all of us 

          jazza1971
          New Participant
          June 13, 2023

          So my Quest2 must have updated on the weekend. Can you please put the warning about 'allow connected device to access files to connecting to a device' back to when the headset boots up, after the guardian. It is bloody annoying because now you start the quest link, then the warning comes up and you have to use a hand controller to accept it, then it disconnects the quest link and you then have to start the quest link again. Its not efficient, where as when it was right when it booted you could select quest link and off you go.

          Buetigame
          Participant
          June 13, 2023

          Got v54 now... desktop and firmware for Q2... after holiday.

          So it's happened, which doesn't to so before (after nearly 3 years of use): Air Link is broken.
          There is a random "falsh" which looks like a big centered X, cunching the screen in it.

          What's up with that?

           

          BlueberrieSmoothie
          BlueberrieSmoothie
          Honored Contributor
          June 13, 2023

          Hey Buetigame! You're not the only one having issues with Air Link after this update. The engineers are actually already working on this! We y have a thread dedicated to this specific issue with Air Link on v54 here. I'd certainly recommend checking out that thread, and that is where one of the moderators will post as soon as there is a fix!

          Make sure you smash that Kudos button!
            Buetigame
            Participant
            June 15, 2023

            Hi BlueberrieSmoothie ,

            thanks for your fast supply, gladfully I'm not the only one.
            But your linked thread is already marked as "solved", solution:
            - factory reset or
            - goto "PTC" 55

            Whitch PTC? Desktop/Firmware or both?
            A factory reset (of course!) wouldn't work.

             

            NomadsAnIsland
            Honored Contributor
            June 15, 2023

            This piece-meal rollout of version features give the impression that "release" versions are still in beta test. For example the feature to pin apps to the Universal Menu did not roll into my headset until weeks after the initial version update on my headset. Then a few days later it was removed, never to be seen again on my headset.

            The same for the v54 changes to the App Library view. At first along with the cosmetic changes (smaller tiles, uninstalled apps "greyed out") there was a filter button/icon next to the search bar on top. A couple days later the button goes away.

            If a new feature is buggy or unpopular in PTC it should not be rolled out into the "production" version. Of course some bugs won't get caught in beta-testing (PTC). With the number of serious bugs we see each release Meta perhaps should look for a better beta-testing community or seriously reconsider the rushed schedule of a new release every month.

            Stugabaranda
            Up and Coming
            June 15, 2023

            propose a better community of beta testers?
            But do you think any of the beta testers get rewards?
            There are people here who DAILY waste their blood reporting bugs!
            Or maybe you expect beta testers to fix the problems Meta creates for you?
            As far as I'm concerned you should only thank the people who are part of the PTC and I would have told you even if I wasn't part of it right now.

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