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April 19, 2021

Quest 2 / Quest Build 28.0 Release Notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of April 19th, 2021.

Bring Your Desk into VR

  • We’ve added the ability to place a virtual desk on your real desk to use while you’re in VR. You can see and use this Desk in the Oculus Home environment.
  • We recommend staying seated while using the Desk.
  • To opt in to this experimental feature, open your universal menu, select Settings, then select Experimental Features. Select Bring Your Desk Into VR to enable your virtual desk.

Pair Your Physical Keyboard with your Quest 2

  • We’ve added the ability to pair a Logitech K830 keyboard to your Oculus Quest 2. When you pair your keyboard to your Quest 2, you’ll see a 3D representation of your hands and keyboard within VR for easy text entry and system navigation while in your Home environment.
  • To begin using your K830 keyboard with Quest 2, open your universal menu, select Settings, then select Experimental Features. Select Pair next to Bluetooth Pairing.

Oculus Air Link

  • Oculus Air Link allows you to discover and pair your Oculus Quest 2 headset to your Oculus-ready PC over a secure Wi-Fi network.
  • You can opt in to this experimental feature from the Experimental Features section of Settings. Follow the instructions on our support site to set up Oculus Air Link.
  • Note: Air Link is part of v28 but it requires that both your headset and PC be running v28 software. That means we’ll be unlocking Air Link once both Quest and PC v28 releases are rolled out, which will happen soon - but you won’t see Air Link just yet, so stay tuned.

120Hz Support

  • 120Hz support is now available on Oculus Quest 2 in an experimental setting. Developers can now ship apps that run at 120Hz, allowing you to experience a higher refresh rate for any app that supports 120Hz when you enable this in Settings.
  • To opt in to this experimental feature, open your universal menu, select Settings, select Experimental Features, then select 120Hz.
  • Keep in mind, it’s up to the developer to provide support for 120Hz. While there aren’t any apps that support 120 Hz just yet, people who turn on this setting will experience 120 Hz performance in apps that choose to support it in the future.
  • This feature may affect battery usage, headset temperature and the visual quality of some system features.

Bug Fixes

  • Tracking Improvements
    • Fixed issue where in certain environments, some customers experienced tracking loss.

 

Please note, the Experimental Features section includes features that are still being developed, so you may encounter anything from minor issues to app crashes.

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    New Participant
    April 19, 2021

    Noice!

     

    MelonFelonies
    New Participant
    April 19, 2021

    we **bleep**ing got em gamers!

    Participant
    April 19, 2021

    Unfortunately, this update didn't resolve issues with tracking introduced in V27 😞

    New Participant
    April 25, 2021

    I read a article which said the v28 resolved the tracking lost issue. I hope so as I plan to reorder a new unit as they gave me a full refund for my first purchased that had the faulty v27 update

    New Participant
    April 19, 2021

    I have now v28 on PC and Quest2, but no air link 😳

    Theres no air link button in the beta tab on the PC and no air link button at the experimental features on the quest 2.

    Inspiring
    April 19, 2021

    As stated in the release notes. It's coming.

    New Participant
    April 21, 2021

    It states it's coming with version 28. Well, I have version 28 on pc and quest 2 and not one additional feature.

    So then why did version 28 even come out?

    April 19, 2021

    awesome

    Up and Coming
    April 19, 2021

    What about all the other bugs, aside from tracking?

    New Participant
    April 19, 2021

    I updated but don't see a Bring Your Desk Into VR option under experimental features. Also I find it odd that you've hyped up Air Link so much but then just decide to delay it for some reason even though a lot of us have V28 on headset and PC, don't see how delaying it till everyone gets both makes sense?

    Participant
    April 19, 2021

    i don't have the option "bring your desk" on the experimental features.. any help?

     

    New Participant
    April 19, 2021

    I am not seeing the 120hz mode even after updating my Quest 2 to v28 and resetting experimental settings (and rebooting a few times).

    Participant
    April 19, 2021

    Same

    Participant
    April 20, 2021

    Updated this morning, took a couple of reboots but got 120hz mode and keyboard tracking to show in experimental features. Both work pretty well. I noticed the passthrough hands when using the K830 don't show up in video recordings and scrolling with the trackpad in browser is an awful experience but typing is very accurate, more so than I thought.

    I played Racket Fury at 120hz and while it did feel a bit smoother, it wasn't as noticeable as going from 72hz to 90hz. I'm very interested to see if there will be some 60fps upscaling to hit 120fps for those games that can't quite get to 90fps natively on Quest 2.

    Very keen to try Air Link when it's available but will use Virtual Desktop 120hz beta for PCVR for now (yet to try it tho).