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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
November 2, 2021

Quest build v34 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of November 1st, 2021.

Guardian

  • With this release we’re introducing Space Sense to Guardian. Space Sense allows you to see things like people and pets entering your Play Space when using Roomscale Guardian. To enable Space Sense, navigate your Settings > Experimental features. Learn more about Guardian and Space Sense.
    • Please note this feature is only available on Quest 2 headsets.
    • Space Sense is not available for Stationary Guardian.
  • In addition to Space Sense, we’re currently testing additional guardian features as part of this release. Keep in mind that these features are still in development and won’t be seen by all users.
  • We’ve improved notifications when you enter a low-light situation and are at risk of losing tracking.

Horizon Home

  • We’re introducing a new personal workspace environment in Horizon Home today, so you can trade out that snowy mountain lodge for something a bit more professional if you’re sitting down to get some work done.

2D Apps for Multitasking

  • We’re introducing 2D apps to the Oculus Store. The first apps available in the Store are Facebook, Instagram, Smartsheet, and Spike. More apps will follow soon. Developers can get started building and testing PWAs today and we’ll share more about when you can submit to App Lab soon.
  • 2D apps take advantage of Quest’s powerful multitasking features. You can turn on the latest multitasking features by enabling “Multitasking” in the Experimental section of the Settings app.

Android Phone Notifications

Standby Battery Life

  • We’ve adjusted battery parameters to increase the standby life on Quest and Quest 2 headsets.

Link and Air Link

  • We’ve enabled secure pairing for Air Link to enhance security and improve your experience for Air Link. Users who have V34 on both Quest and PC will experience a new and improved pairing flow for launching into Air Link.
  • For best performance on Link and Air Link, please use Windows 10. Windows 11 is not yet supported with our Oculus PC software.

Voice Commands

  • You can now do more with Voice Commands. With this release, you can now ask about the weather, enable or disable the Oculus Move tracker during your next workout, and other general questions. You can also use Voice Commands to control your media and open your settings. Learn more about supported Voice Commands.
  • Example commands include:
    • Weather: “What’s the weather like today?”, “What’s the weather for tomorrow?”
    • Media Control: “Pause”, “Resume”, “Next”, “Go back”
    • Oculus Move: “Show activity tracker”, “Hide calorie tracker”
    • General Questions: “What is ten to the power of forty three?”, “What is 20 Celsius in Fahrenheit?”, “How many calories in three eggs?”

Public Test Channel (PTC)

  • Quest Public Test Channel (PTC) is an early access program for Oculus Quest software releases. By signing up, you can get early access to the unreleased software version ahead of the public release.
  • See here to learn more about how to sign up for PTC.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the progress bar was showing incorrect information when downloading a game or app.
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    DaGirluLuv
    Participant
    November 7, 2021

    You forgot to mention the android notifications don't work yet as the option to set up isn't in the oculus app under headset yet. 

    VR2018FR
    Up and Coming
    November 8, 2021

    Today i just discovered that v34  prohibits me to record  the sound of  the game   with geforce experience.

    attempting to  fix the problem with opening the miror  view not in full screen and having  both  view open  at the same time it did not  change anything,  5 or 6 times  i had to recalibrate the guardian, now  that i have tryed testing  recording using revive or a game on steam  it works fine ( game's sound and voice) and now THIS :  it's impossible to use the link connection, the quest 2 keeps straying in mobile use ! thanks for  v34  update !!!!! 😡

    TomCgcmfc
    Honored Contributor
    November 9, 2021

    All seems to continue to work fine with my Q2/rtx3090 with both Link and Air Link.  My Q2 is on v34 and I got an additional small v34 update  but did not notice any difference. 

     

    I opted into the Oculus desktop pc app to v35 ptc yesterday and this seems to work fine.  Tracking seems a little better.  I did need to do the secure Air Link pairing which just asked you to confirm 6x numbers shown on your Q2 screen with those shown on your PC desktop app.  This made it necessary to be next to your PC monitor so you can confirm this on your PC using your PC mouse.  I would have thought that once paired, you would not need to do this again but I got caught starting up Air Link in my adjacent lounge room and it asked me to pair it again which meant I needed to move back to my PC room to do this.  So, a bit of a pita.  One thing I noticed with v35ptc is that if you have already enabled Air Link on your Q2 experimental, you don't seem to need to toggle this on with your desktop app settings/beta tab.  It now does not seem to make any difference whether Air Link on the beta tab is on/off.

     

    Overall, everything is working great with my Q2/rtx3090 right now and I'm pretty happy with the results I'm getting with Air Link.  I have not found any problems with any apps from the Oculus, Steam, and VivePort stores.

    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
      debevick
      New Participant
      November 9, 2021

      I agree that the pairing confirmation is going to be a crutch. having to go back to the PC every time it request to pair.

      Is anyone else seeing the same PC twice in their pairing window on quest? I have an MSI and a MSI1. Only the MSI will pair.

      That's good news about the airlink button on the desktop app in upcoming v35. Its a pita having to go back to the pc take off headset and re-click that button every time a res change is made.

        Anonymous
        November 9, 2021

        Just got v34 Desktop-App today... jeehaaa 😉

        (a little more than a week, but as expected)

         

        TomCgcmfc I've done the pairing for AirLink only once... afterwards it didn't want me to repeat that procedure. Between Desktop-App sessions all services will be stopped and the headset (Q2) is never shutdown completely... only standby. So what is different to your usage? Mybe ist's a matter of the PTC-version? I'm on retail versions... Q2-Firmware and Desktop-App, both v34.

        MystaMagoo Already explained that some posts ago... Desktop-App is user-specific for rollout, so the provided version is connected to the user, not the PC. But there is a quick workaround - change to PTC/Beta for  both user and you are done... forever.

         

        vfragos Be sure to set the "Encode Resolution Width" under "Oculus Link" per "Oculus Debug Tool" (short ODT) to 3664 for Quest2. This will raise the native resolution on the device for Link. You'll find that tool unter "C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics\OculusDebugTool.exe" (if that's the place where Oculus was installed). Also you may set the "Disortion Curative" to "Low". You'll see the difference 😉

         

        The "recommended" resolution in the desktop ist the "safe point" for most hardware... the higest resolution with 72Hz, which goes down, the higher you set the refresh rate. Keep in mind, that redering in 90Hz means a constant 90 Frames in the VR-App at the desired resolution... for my RTX2080 90Hz@5408x2736 (as nalex66 wrote) would be much to high...  3840x2160 = 4k, so 5408x2736 nearly doubles that (+80%!). Also for a RTX3080ti a resolution of 2x4k@90Hz ist much to high for HLA (as an extreme example).

        But you are free to test out your rig, of course...

          TomCgcmfc
          Honored Contributor
          November 9, 2021

          Anonymous  Thanks mate.  Today I opted out of oculus pc desktop app v35ptc and ended up on v34 (ended up still on v33 when I tried this a few days ago).  All seemed to work ok Except the good old  X Plane 11 shutdown bug reared its head again and I needed to use win10 Task Manager to kill it.  I had put in a bug report w/logs on this when v34 was still PTC but this did not go anywhere, and the fix back then was just to go back to v33 final.

           

          Anyway, I opted back into the Oculus PC app PTC which then took me back to v35PTC again and X Plane shutdown properly.  Also, I did not get any Air Link Pairing requests.  Maybe it just remembers these or maybe it only needs to do this if you go back and forth from Link/Air Link?  I'll try this later today and report back.

           

          One thing I noticed in task manager was that Oculus Dash service has changed its priority from Normal to High.  I'm not sure why Oculus did this (for both v34 and v35ptc btw) but maybe there is a good reason for this.  I did try temporarily lowering the Dash priority to Normal but this did not seem to make any difference with either version and the XP11 shutdown bug was still there with v34, but not v35ptc.  Anyway, I'll just leave my Oculus pc desktop app on v35ptc for now.  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
          panthercz
          Participant
          November 9, 2021

          Notification from Android phone still missing...

          Phone: Samsung S10e (Android 11)

          Oculus App: 136.0.0.10.115

          Quest version: 35.0.0.73.341

            Ryanality
            RyanalityAuthor
            Honored Contributor
            November 9, 2021

            Thanks! panthercz can you make sure you put in a bug report, ideally with logs? Since you're running the PTC for v35 it'd be really great for them to get those logs.

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            panthercz
            Participant
            November 9, 2021

            Sent via Oculus Quest feedback.

            LameDuckWarrior
            Inspiring
            November 9, 2021

            Missing here as well.

              nalex66
              nalex66
              Honored Contributor
              November 10, 2021

              One thing has been really bugging me with the v34 update; when I start up my headset, and it wants me to create or confirm a Guardian, it only gives me a few seconds, and if I haven't clicked anything (like Confirm or Create Guardian), the headset quickly shuts down again. It never had this behaviour before v34--I used to have time to wait and see if it would remember my previous Guardian (which would occasionally take a few seconds of looking around the room). It even sometimes shuts down when I'm in the middle of setting my floor height. I know they made some changes to conserve battery life, but if this is a part of that, it's a bit overkill. I tried extending the automatic shutdown time from 15 seconds to 1 minute, but this pre-Guardian behaviour doesn't seem to be impacted by that setting. Has anyone else noticed this?

               

              (I'm also annoyed about the missing gridless passthrough boundary for Stationary Guardian, which still hasn't come back.)

               

              Edit: I joined the Quest PTC, and can confirm the that with v35, my headset is no longer shutting down a few seconds after starting up.

               

              Edit 2: I spoke too soon. The abrupt shutdowns right after startup are still happening.

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              DickDastardly
              Participant
              November 16, 2021

              So will key features like voice commands ever be available to anyone outside the US? It's hard to take all the Connect waffle about diversity and inclusiveness seriously when non-Americans continue to be treated as second-class citizens by Oculus.

               

              We had this feature on Rift years ago (before it was summarily removed without explanation) and it was really useful. It's now been months since it launched on Quest in the US and it's still unavailable anywhere else (including in countries like the UK, Australia or New Zealand which speak the same language). Can we get an update on when it will be available please?

               

              And whilst you're at it, will anyone outside the US ever get the ability to use Hulu or Movies Anywhere or to buy or rent 3D movies, or even to access Supernatural or Horizon Worlds? The grandiose visions of building the metaverse look pretty silly when you currently lock out most of the planet.

              Anonymous
              November 17, 2021

              Hi.

              alexvojacek
              Participant
              November 18, 2021

              You're putting too much crap onto the Quest which will no doubt will make it slower, so you can sell a Quest 3 and on top of that you keep ignoring the BIG ISSUES we Windows 11 users have with Link NOT WORKING.

              I guess my choice as customer is to abandon this platform and look for something more PC oriented.

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