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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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      Anonymous
      April 24, 2021

      Okay... Headset updates to Runtime: 28.0.0.221.359.286257763 (yesterday: 284530010).

      Air Link is available now, but it did't work "good"... better: is not usable!

       

      How should I describe this?

      It feels like an "extreme latency mode" (count seconds, not mili...)

       

      It's nearly impossible to set the bitrate in the Desktop-App Home... after minutes I mangaged a change from Dynamic to fixed and from 10Mbps to 190Mps (wich falls back to 100Mbps when reconnected) but without any change in latency... maybe in visuals. Even the sound stutters and it does not matter which resolution setting I'll tried (90Hz/72Hz doesnt matter). OVR Metrics shows round about 60fps (and less), the visuals "stutter" (can't decribe this... move your head, some parts of visuals go black an come back... everything last seconds), tracking of controller nearly - point-and-click - is nearly impossible.

      Of Course I'll have an PC and Router which meets the requirements.

      Air Link Support (known issues for example) can't help:
      https://support.oculus.com/airlink

       

      Maybe it is an specific problem I have or this feature is really, really alpha.

      And of course... Virtual Desktop Mobile works like a charme with great visuals and round about 30ms latency.

        TomCgcmfc
        Honored Contributor
        April 24, 2021

        Anonymous  What are your PC specs mate?  Both Link and wireless needs a pretty good PC, esp. a good gpu.  The new rtx3000 series have the fastest encoders and seem to work best.  I can say that my new rtx3090 rocks!  Cost me a small fortune though, lol!

        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
        Anonymous
        April 24, 2021

        TomCgcmfc My Specs?

        It's an 5900X (12cores) w/64GB, PCIe 4x NVME and RTX2080

        OK, it's not a 3090, but... should be enough.

        "small fortune"? 😝

         

        But when I look at your sig... you don't have a Quest2 and so no Air Link, correct?

        An "inVR" latency meter like VDM has, would be nice... it would show, where the problem is.

         

        To be clear: VDM = 30ms, Air Link ~ 2000ms (unusable)

        PC is wired to Frtiz!Box 6591, ~5m away, 5GHz/866Mbps

          chert1024VR
          Inspiring
          April 24, 2021

          What particular version of the PC app does Air Link appear on the Beta section? My PC app is already V.28 (28.0.0.222.469) but I still don't have the option for Air Link. My Quest 2 though already has Air Link in its Experimental settings.

          LameDuckWarrior
          Inspiring
          April 24, 2021

          Had the same problem.

          I hit HELP and navigated to Air Link instructions and downloaded the update there.

          It now has Air Link in the beta tab and for me better than Virtual Desktop.

           

          Not even directly connected to the router.

           

          Good luck 🙂 

          TomCgcmfc
          Honored Contributor
          April 24, 2021

          LameDuckWarrior  If you say you are getting good wireless without your PC wired to your router you have not seen anything yet!  When your wire it to your PC you will notice a huge improvement.

          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
          chert1024VR
          Inspiring
          April 24, 2021

          Already tried Oculus Air Link. It works well. And yeah, I agree that it does seem to work better than Virtual Desktop.

           

          Thank you Oculus for this feature. Now, I can truly say that I'm really enjoying my Quest 2. 🙂

            Fangzhou
            Up and Coming
            April 24, 2021

            I have tried Airlink, it is the worst VR experience that I had ever. Latency larger than 3 second, just not usable at all. 

            My PC is using RTX3080, 1Gbps wired linked to Asus TUF-AX3000 router, Quest 2 connected to router using WiFi 6 5Ghz connection. Same spec works well with Virtual Desktop or wired Oculus Link. I really wonder how do you guys make the Airlink usable (and even some people says it's better than VD). 

            chert1024VR
            Inspiring
            April 24, 2021

            Weird. I have a much less powerful GPU and router compared to you. I'm playing Project Wingman, Star Wars Squadrons, ACC and Half-life: Alyx with Oculus Air Link and everything is working well. My Netgear AC router is about 3 feet away from my Q2 headset  and on top of my wired PC which sits on my desk. I'm not noticing any appreciable latency coming anywhere close to yours.

              Anonymous
              April 24, 2021

              Maybe a driver issue?
              Would it be possible to mention OS (which Win10 Version), Graphics-Card and driver version?

              Really would appreciate that!

              Mine ist: Win10 x64 20H2, RTX 2080, nVidia 460.97 - not working!

              Thank you!

              P.S.: Desktop-App Home is fixed to 60fps... strange.

              P.P.S.: I've got it now!

               

              In ODT (the Oculus Debug Tool) I've set the "encode bitrate" to 300Mbps - that don't work 😞
              Done that for Link w/ Oculus Link cable... set that back to "0" (default) and it works!

               

              SideFact: with v28 Oculus set the "encode resolution witdh" back to "0".

              - Default Air Link HMD resolution: 1440x1536 (i.e. 2880x1538)

              - Tuned Air Link HMD resolution: 1840x1920 (i.e. 3680x1920) - "encode resolution witdh" @ 3664

               

              @People with "work's better as VDM"...

              That's the reason, very low resolution and really not comparable, sorry.

                LameDuckWarrior
                Inspiring
                April 25, 2021

                There it is. Good job!

                chert1024VR
                Inspiring
                April 24, 2021

                Actually, I set the Oculus PC app to a refresh rate of 90hz and a render resolution of 1.7x (5408 x 2736) when using Air Link. I force 45fps and ASW via the Debug Tool. I compared the IQ of both Oculus USB Link and Oculus Air Link on the PCVR games I play and AFAIK, I see no appreciable difference between the two.

                Anonymous
                April 25, 2021

                You didn't change the render resolution on the quest?

                There will be a markable difference in quality, if you do...

                chert1024VR
                Inspiring
                April 25, 2021

                Yes. I didn't change the refresh rate and render resolution in the Oculus PC app for Air Link. It is the same settings I use with the Oculus Link cable. My encode resolution width (in the Debug Tool) has always been set to "0" even when I was still using the Oculus Link cable. Never bothered changing it since there is already a render resolution setting on the PC app.

                  Fangzhou
                  Up and Coming
                  April 25, 2021

                  Found the bug that makes airlink latency extremely high. 

                  Just open OculusDebugTool, change Encode Bitrate to 0. To be safe I also changed Encode Resolution Width to 0. Then restart Oculus Service, Airlink will work as expected. 

                    Anonymous
                    April 25, 2021

                    If you change the "encode resolution width" to "0" you'll reduce the rendering quality on the device.

                    I wrote that before (beside the problem with the "encode bitrate" ;-):

                    - Default Air Link HMD resolution: 1440x1536 (i.e. 2880x1538) - "encode resolution witdh" @ 0

                    - Tuned Air Link HMD resolution: 1840x1920 (i.e. 3680x1920) - "encode resolution witdh" @ 3664

                    Gotmilkman
                    Participant
                    April 25, 2021

                    I got the v28 update today. So I reset the experimental features and turned on airlink. (Both on the quest and the pc software) Now when I click on air link on the quest headset and click pair, the launch button will not light up and the settings menu either disappears or is blank/frozen. Anyone having this issue?

                    chert1024VR
                    Inspiring
                    April 25, 2021

                    Also had that issue. You have to enable Network Discovery in your Win 10 network settings. That will enable the Quest 2 to pair with your PC. After this, the headset will always be paired with your PC just as long as Air Link is enabled in both the headset and PC app.

                      Gotmilkman
                      Participant
                      April 25, 2021

                      That did it, thank you!

                      Ayameda
                      Participant
                      April 25, 2021

                      Why haven't you solved the passthrough mode being the only visible thing when you start the headset since your last update? Oculus still doesn't take responsibility for their own mess, and refuse to answer any  support tickets.

                       

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