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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
June 21, 2023

Meta Quest v55 Release Notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of June 21st, 2023 and will be rolling out to Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 headsets. 

Quest performance improvements

We’re continuing to move VR forward by pushing the boundaries of what Quest Pro and Quest 2 are capable of. With v55, we’re enabling higher clock speeds for the CPU and GPU for all Quest Pro and Quest 2 headsets, giving you smoother gameplay and a more responsive UI. This update also adds more power for developers to take advantage of for both existing and upcoming apps. 

 

These performance improvements include:

  • Up to 26% increase in CPU speed for Quest Pro and Quest 2
  • Up to 19% increase in GPU for Quest 2
  • Up to 11% increase in GPU for Quest Pro 

Passcode

We’re adding the ability to use a passcode to unlock your device, which will work like the unlock pattern. As this feature gradually rolls out, you’ll be able to set up a numerical passcode between 4 and 12 characters to unlock your device, enter saved passwords, and more. You’ll be able to manage your passcode from Security in Settings. 

Messenger in VR

We’re updating the Messenger experience in VR to help you connect and make new friends while in the metaverse. With v55, we’re bringing the Messenger app, including messaging and audio calling to VR, so you can hang out with those who matter most regardless of which device they use.

 

People you follow are online indicator

You’ll now see a green circle on the People tab in the universal menu to help you know when people you follow are online.

 

Explore redesign

We’re gradually rolling out an experimental design with new content for the default landing page in VR, Explore, so you can effortlessly engage with your communities, compelling entertainment, and immersive experiences. 

 

A few of the Explore changes we’re experimenting with include:

  • New layout formats
  • Reels in VR
    • Reels in VR will only be shown to users who have a Facebook or Instagram account in the same Accounts Center as their Meta account
  • Meta Avatars Store
  • Meta Horizon Worlds featured worlds
  • Media content from Peacock, YouTube VR, Pluto TV and Xtadium  


Easier avatar editing in real-time

We made it easier to travel to the mirror in your Horizon Home to edit your avatar. With just one click on the mirror, you will be transported and ready to view real-time edits to your avatar in an optimal position.

  • This will be rolling out gradually.

 


Eye tracking improvements

 

We’ve improved eye tracking on Quest Pro to make it more accurate across a broader field of view and during expressions like winking. For the most accurate eye tracking, you can always recalibrate by going to Movement Tracking in Settings, then Eye tracking, then Calibrate eye tracking. 

 

Use hands on notifications

We’re gradually rolling out a new way to interact with notifications in VR using your hands. With hand tracking turned on, you’ll be able to tap on icons or buttons, or swipe to dismiss a notification.

 

New virtual environments

 

We’re releasing two new virtual environments:

  • Futurescape: As featured in this year’s Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, Futurescape combines futurism with the beauty and tranquility of nature. You can try out this new environment by going to Personalization in Settings. 

 

 

  • The Great Sand Sea: Available for download to all Meta Quest users who pre-ordered Asgard’s Wrath 2, The Great Sand Sea is a large, free roaming, living world that allows you to immerse yourself in the mysterious sands of a vast desert landscape in VR. Once you pre-order Asgard’s Wrath 2, you can download this new Home environment from the Meta Quest app or directly from your Meta Quest headset and then launch the environment from the Home screen. 

 

Browser multi-touch support

 

Quest Browser now has multi-touch gesture support, allowing you to use Touch controllers or your hands to zoom in, zoom out, or interact with other web elements.

 

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    Buetigame
    Participant
    July 14, 2023

    It's July 14th and there is no sign of this version being released.
    I'm trained to wait, but three and a half weeks... really?

    Maybe it's better to wait if things get worse.

    jimmie312807
    Participant
    July 14, 2023

    "It's July 14th and there is no sign of this version being released."

    You got another week to go for it to be a full month. Hold tight!

    BOLNICHKA39
    Participant
    July 14, 2023

    Does meta have a date by which all devices must update? I still have version 54 and I'm starting to think that the problem is not the update coming to my helmet. I used to get updates within a week after the release of the update and this period was fairly well respected throughout the time from the purchase of quest2, but now it's been almost a month and it worries me

    Noticed
    Participant
    July 15, 2023

    App sharing isn't working any more after the update. When will this be fixed? 

    Buetigame
    Participant
    July 15, 2023

    jimmie.312807 A month is the release cycle for firmwares.
    So I'll get the old firmware when the new one was or will be released?
    Really?

    BOLNICHKA39
    Participant
    July 15, 2023

    By the way, users who received update 55, did you encounter overheating of Quest2? I'm on firmware 54 and playing boneworks via airlink with my rtx 4080 and after ~40 minutes of playing the helmet overheated and required an immediate shutdown. If the frequencies in v55 have become higher, then the problem of overheating has become more acute?

      NicoEng
      NicoEng
      Up and Coming
      July 15, 2023

      I have noticed that after 30 minutes or so playing an MMO my v55 Quest 2 needs to be shut down to cool off a bit. On v54 or before this almost never happened. So my question is are the clocks allowed to go too high and produce too much heat for the quest to handle. I only hope Meta will tone down the clock speed a bit. Maybe an experimental setting that restricts clock speeds a little, more than they were but not as much as they went up by lately. 

        TheodonKhel
        Up and Coming
        July 16, 2023

        nalex66 PITTCANNA You say to be patient but it's been 25 days since rollout started and I'm getting short end of the stick again. I have an issue right now with left controller not able to pair and I'm patiently waiting as advised by Meta for v55 since it has a fix for that issue but my patience is running pretty thin at this point. I understand that Meta wants to have a longer roll out to detect issues just in case but this is way too long even for the safety standards. 

        Last time when I was on v51 the v53 started rolling out and I didn't get it for more than a month if I remember correctly. Guess what happened? The v54 started rolling out literally a day after I finally got v53. It's ridiculous. Not mentioning both v53 and v54 introduced huge controller issues so at some point I had to get in PTC v55 to have playable experience. Now I need that crucial update to make my headset usable again since v55 is not on PTC anymore and I'm still stuck on v54 for so long. 4 weeks is too long. It should be 2 weeks top. 

          JoeKellyCo
          New Participant
          July 16, 2023

          Mine is also stuck on v54… seriously why sh I could roll back to 53!    I did try the ptc v55 for a short bit but the account sharing was broken.  So I rolled back to v54 and it did the factory reset.   Which is fine.

           

          now I just want the real deal v55. 

          nalex66
          nalex66
          Honored Contributor
          July 16, 2023

          The v55 rollout has gone slower than usual. I believe they may have paused it to deal with an issue that was popping up for some people who received the update.

           

          V56 has started releasing in the PTC channel, so it’s likely that either they’ve dealt with the issue and have resumed rollout of v55, or else they could fold the fix into v56 and fast-track that instead (it wouldn’t be the first time that has happened).

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