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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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      Cygnos
      Up and Coming
      April 25, 2021

      I have v28 on my Quest v28 on PC

      But still no airlink or 120hz option i only have the airlink option in the PC app under beta settings.

      Rebooted my headset many times, and that did not work for me.

        chert1024VR
        Inspiring
        April 26, 2021

        You have to reset to default the Experimental settings in your Q2 headset. After the headset reboots, you should now see Air Link and 120hz options.

          Cygnos
          Up and Coming
          April 26, 2021

          That didn’t work for me.

            jhaskins75
            New Participant
            April 25, 2021

            I received a Full refund for my quest 2 which had a serious issue with Tracking Lost and having to do a factory reset multiple times to get it to function so I am asking if the new released units will have the v28 update installed that fixed the tracking lost issue before I repurchased the Quest 2 again.

            Spyder17
            Inspiring
            April 26, 2021

            I had the tracking lost issue after the v27 update.  Was told by support it was a software problem, not hardware.  I now have v28 and (keeping my fingers crossed) haven't had the issue since updating.  Also have the 120hz and Airlink options.  Have to reboot the headset to get and make sure that you turn on the AirLink option under Beta setting on the PC software.

              chert1024VR
              Inspiring
              April 26, 2021

              Bummer. That's what I did for those options to appear.

                GoldenRetroGames
                Inspiring
                April 26, 2021

                I really hate how updates get rolled out. My desktop software updated days ago and I even have the Air Link option, but my Quest 2 is still stuck on release 27.

                  LameDuckWarrior
                  Inspiring
                  April 26, 2021

                  It is a bit of a culture shock for me too.

                  Just always remember the hardest part was waiting on the developers update overall.

                  Never the "rollout" LOL and this one is particularly weird in that once the update hits, the things IN the update are themselves "rolled" out.

                    DrGNOLA
                    Inspiring
                    April 28, 2021

                    Just seems like shockingly bad company policy, I don't care how hard the update process is. If you don't have it ready, don't tell me it's coming...sort of...later...? Great! : (

                     

                    GoldenRetroGames
                    Inspiring
                    April 27, 2021

                    My Quest finally updated. Air Link works really well. It's a huge improvement over Virtual Desktop for me. The only issue I have with it is a slight audio delay. It's not significantly noticeable in most games, but it's quite noticeable in Beat Saber. Hopefully that's something that can be addressed by the time it stops being an experimental feature.

                    benville
                    New Participant
                    April 27, 2021

                    So no sign of "Bring your desk into VR" as stated in the patch notes?

                     

                    I had v28 on PC and headset days ago but no Air Link or 120hz until I did a Factory Reset of the headset.  Even then, still no option for the desk.

                    Cygnos
                    Up and Coming
                    April 27, 2021

                    It worked for me after factory reset and resetting the experimental features.

                    ThePixelCowboy
                    Inspiring
                    April 27, 2021

                    I have all the features except for the light theme and the desk. Has anyone gotten this two?

                    Anonymous
                    April 27, 2021

                    I cannot find the airlink option, anyone care to help?

                     

                    Beowulf22
                    Participant
                    April 27, 2021

                    My experience so far with the Air Link.

                     

                    Headset v28 update: Done

                    Headset Experimental Features, Air Link enabled: Done

                    PC App v28 update: Done

                    PC App Beta AirLink feature enabled: Done

                    PC App / Device: Quest 2 and Touch (Active and Connected): Green Check marked

                    Headset / Settings / Quick Actions: Oculus Air Link, "My Laptop": Connected

                     

                    I click on "Launch" (under Air Link popup box, still in the Headset)

                    Get three dots *** for about 5 seconds . . .

                    and the headset kicks me back to the main Quest lobby (not the Rift one).

                     

                    If I check back the Oculus Air Link headset status it momentary says "Not connected", but almost immediately turns back to "Connected" without me doing anything. PC App, on the other hand, first shows "Active", then briefly "Not connected" (when it kicks me to the lobby), and then back to "Active".

                     

                    On the PC App under notifications I got several errors:

                    (White circle icon) "Oculus isn't working correctly. Click here to check our support article".

                    (Greyed circle icon) "We can't find your headset. Please connect your headset."

                    (White circle icon) "Oculus link stopped working. Plug your headset back into your computer if you want to re-enable Oculus Link".

                     

                    Clicking on the first notification brings me to a generic help page, nothing specific about the Air Link (asking me to restart things, to check the graphics card). Which I did. I rebooted the PC, redownloaded and reinstalled Oculus PC App. Rebooted the headset (pressing the power button). I have the latest drivers: for both graphic cards.

                     

                    The problem is always the same: basic Air Link connection is fine, but any attempt to Launch breaks the connection and I can't get any further.

                     

                    My laptop is Asus TUF Gaming A15: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics 2.90 GHz, RAM 16GB, SSD 1TB, NVIDIA RTX 2060 with 6GB, Windows 10 20h2.

                    I have a Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) router with both my Oculus Quest 2 and my laptop being on the same 5 GHz network. No traffic, port, protocol restrictions on my router for the internal network (I can do anything connecting any devices, Xbox Series X, SMB file access etc).

                     

                    The hardware wise, my setup meets the Air Link requirements. But, I can only connect via Air Link, but not fully Launch it. I don't know what else can be done. Obviously, this is still beta, and sort of expected to have issues.

                     

                    Thank you for reading!

                    Tiger
                    New Participant
                    April 27, 2021

                    This maybe due to your router. Some router may have problem like high used or poor build. That just 2 of the thing. Try going to same room with router with your laptop and quest 2 and see if that help. If that don't work. Make sure your laptop can run it by link to quest 2. Let me know if that help or not

                    Beowulf22
                    Participant
                    April 27, 2021

                    No, this is not the router. I tried a different one (Netgear Nigthhawk EX7700 AC Wi-Fi extender). Everything was close in one room, no other traffic, same 5GHz network. Same problem, basic Air Link connection is OK, but Launch fails. Unfortunately, I cannot try your second suggestion, the Oculus Link USB cable, since I don't have one.

                    LameDuckWarrior
                    Inspiring
                    April 27, 2021

                    I've actually got a Netgear Nighthawk 7000 in bridge mode and works great until it glitches really hard every few minutes. Wonder if it's because its bridge mode that it glitches as I'm not experienced with networking?

                     

                    Actually works ok by connecting directly to router downstairs just wanted to see if I could improve on the connection.

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