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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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      DCWolf
      DCWolf
      Participant
      April 28, 2021

      Beowulf22 you write your Laptop and your Quest2 are in the same 5GHz network.
      This is a wrong setup. The PC ( Laptpop ) must be connected with a network cable to the router !

        AlexiTQ
        Up and Coming
        April 29, 2021

        Link is still broken in some games, with display glitches/white horizontal stripe showing up. It's obvious at this point that Oculus doesn't give a **bleep** about fixing these issues. 

        AlexiTQ
        Up and Coming
        April 29, 2021

        After some more testing I'm having these issues in all games. On top of that, horrid performance with low fps and huge latency spikes as well as crackling audio. The issues have gone from really annoying to a completely useless headset.

        Rangerscott77
        New Participant
        April 29, 2021

        Still no fix for ASMedia usb controllers.

        TomCgcmfc
        Honored Contributor
        April 29, 2021

        My ASMedia win10 driver dated 16/11/2020 is working fine (power savings disabled of course) with my official link cable.  This is the usb3.1 gen2 type-c port (only have one of these) on my asus maximus hero xi motherboard.  I also have a separate startech 2x usb3.1 gen2 type-c ports (sata powered) that also seems to work fine but I get better usb test speeds and a little better performance with my MB port (2.5Gbps vs 2.0Gbps.  Go figure?

        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
        AlexiTQ
        Up and Coming
        April 29, 2021

        Yeah, good for you. Link is still broken.

        ovrdoz
        New Participant
        May 3, 2021

        Hello,

        I have v28 on my headset and on the pc app, the air link is visible on my headset but not on the app which is in v28, I tried to restart it, fix it, reinstall it, but the air link option in the beta tab of the app is still not visible, does anyone have any idea how I could solve this problem?

        thanks

        TomCgcmfc
        Honored Contributor
        May 3, 2021

        ovrdoz  First thing to do is disable the public beta slider.  After the app updates and restarts hopefully you will see the air link option on the settings/beta tab.  If you do not see it go to your Oculus app desktop settings/account and sign out, and then signin.  Restart the app and hopefully your air link option will appear.  Otherwise, contact Oculus Support.  Good luck and cheers. 

         

        Edit; My french is not so good but that warning looks like your gpu is not compatible.  Some newer ones get that warning but still work.  After restarting non-beta PTC and you still get that message I hope yours will still work as well.

        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
          DrGNOLA
          Inspiring
          May 3, 2021

          Pretty much this. I had to wait a day for it to show up across all settings, but that was a week ago. I believe it was disabling the beta and/or other settings to reset things (Experimental Settings, etc) is what finally pushed my unit over the line to fully recognize AirLink. Though it may have just been when the rollout hit me, too. As is too common with Oculus updates, who really knows...? Like 3 developers in a cave doing the work, I wager, truly know the answer. Note to Mark: you're a social media giant, for goodness sakes, you can do better if you really expect VR to conquer the world...😀😅

            CDMDalek
            Participant
            May 3, 2021

            My Quest 1 has been great, and I've never had issues. After the v28 update, I turned it on, and today, my right lens has what is called "noisy black". I closed each eye individually, and it's only in the right lens. No scratches or anything. It doesn't do it on starting up with the Oculus logo, and it's mainly when it transitions into opening apps and games. I tried restarting, but it's still there. Not noticeable on bright games, but if I try to watch a movie on Youtube or something with a lot of darks, it's there. I added an image I found online that looks kind of like what I see. Any ideas of how to fix this? Will it just go away? Is it a software bug? It didn't happen until the newest update. I filled out a support ticket, but I'd love to figure this out! Thanks in advance.

            TomCgcmfc
            Honored Contributor
            May 3, 2021

            CDMDalek  See what Oculus support has to say.  They will probably ask you to do a Factory Reset (google how to do this) and this often helps fix a lot of Q1 issues.  Good luck and cheers.

            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
            CDMDalek
            Participant
            May 3, 2021

            Thanks! I had thought about doing a factory reset. I had put in a support ticket just in case, but do you advise doing a factory reset? Appreciate the help! I love my Quest.

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