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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
January 19, 2022

Quest build v37 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of January 17th, 2022.

App Library

  • Oculus first party apps are no longer pinned to the top of your App Library. Instead, you can control the order of your apps through your App Library’s sort + filter settings.

Link Sharpening+

  • If it looks like your view in VR with Link is a little bit clearer, you’re right. We’ve improved the Link Sharpening algorithm for better visual clarity.

Stationary Guardian

  • Stationary Guardian now uses Passthrough. When you move toward the edge of your Stationary Guardian, you won’t see the boundary outlines. Instead, Passthrough will fade in to show your real-life surroundings.

Horizon Home

  • To help you explore your Horizon Home, you can now teleport to different designated areas in your Home environment.
    • Simply hide the Universal Menu by pressing the Oculus button, and press your controller thumbstick forward to see a set of potential hotspots. Then aim at one of the hotspots and release the thumbstick to teleport.
    • With the Universal Menu hidden, you can also press the thumbstick left or right to rotate in place.

Diagonal Resize

  • To better control your VR workspace, you can now resize your app windows to different heights and widths. Initially, this will be supported in Browser, Oculus TV, and Files as well as some 2D multitasking apps currently available on Quest.

Display Bar

  • To provide more flexibility in how 2D apps are displayed, you can now change the distance, scale, and rotation of your 2D app panels by using the Display Bar to switch between Tablet and Desktop modes.
    • To switch between panel types select and hold the Display Bar under the center panel, then drag the bar up or down.
    • We’re also making Browser tabs a bit smarter as part of this update. When you move between Desktop and Tablet modes, your Browser tabs will now consolidate into a single window to help keep your workspace neat and organized.

Tracked Keyboard Selection

  • In v28, we made it possible to not just pair but see Logitech’s K830 keyboard in VR. Now we’re also adding support for the Apple Magic Keyboard on Quest 2.
  • You can pair your Apple Magic Keyboard with your headset under the Experimental Features panel in Settings. You’ll also need to enable hand tracking (if you haven’t already) which can be done under the Hands and Controllers settings menu.

Share to Headset

  • If you’ve ever been browsing a made-for-VR art gallery on your phone and wished for a more immersive experience, we have you covered. In our latest sharing enhancement you’ll now be able to send a link directly from your phone to your Quest via the Oculus App, making that 3D view actually feel like you’re there.
    • To do this, first make sure your headset is turned on and Bluetooth is enabled on your phone. Then, open a website on your phone, click Share, choose the Oculus App → Open Now, select your headset, and it’ll automatically open in Browser when you put your headset on.
      • Please note: Currently this is only available on Android but will be coming to iOS soon.

Improved Quick Actions Menu

  • Accomplish the basics quicker without needing controllers. You can now use a pinch gesture with your hands to bring up a quick action menu. This allows you to quickly do things like take a screenshot, activate voice commands and more.
    • To bring up the quick action menu, position your palm in front of your face and pinch with your thumb and index finger.

Redesigned Explore Page

  • We’ve redesigned your Explore page to make it easier to find the experiences that you care about. To do this, we’ve made the following updates:
    • Adding cards that make it easier to find your friends.
    • Updating sections so you can discover the games, apps, and content that you care about.

Controller Settings

  • We’re adding the ability to adjust your Touch controller settings not only to give power users more options, but also to improve accessibility and address issues that may arise with wear and tear.
    • The most recent setting addition for v37 is the ability to adjust the thumbstick center dead zone, as well as the thumbstick range. You can make these adjustments from the Experimental Settings section within the settings panel.
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    NoctemCreations
    NoctemCreations
    Participant
    January 29, 2022

    Ryanality please tell me whoever your QA testers are cause they really need firing..... this update amongst others have been absolute trash. and being owned by multi-billion dollar company and having millions of dollars funded to you every year. employ some better staff. and also actually listen to your userbase. literally for the past 2 years people have been asking for basic features like app pinning. either to the universal bar or to the explore window for easier app launching. even the fact if we select sort apps by installed. then turning off device and turning it back on should start it back in installed sorting but no. come on and sort your updates and your QA testers out. !

      LipeB0ss
      Participant
      January 30, 2022

      THIS. Freaking listen to this, "Oculus"... 1 year owning this "Quest 2" VR headset with a GARBAGE OS in it. V35 broke the rendering on my Q2, I complained and they removed me from PTC. Waiting 1 month for the V37 hotfix to go out. Dear lord, I HATE Meta.

      I ASKED SUPPORT FOR HELP, THEY SAID THAT IN ORDER TO HELP ME, THEY NEEDED ALL OF THIS:
      "Full name, shipping address and phone number" Ok. I might now want to receive a call or unwanted visitors at my home, but that could be for cross-checking if I'm a legit user, right? I du no...
      "Preferred email address to receive labels" Ok but... Label? What for? I ain't returning an unit because of a software fix being needed.
      "Oculus username and/or email address associated with your account" Ok?
      "Headset serial number" in case mine's one of many that have some kind of problem they already know of? Otherwise, ask it in the end. Again: SOFTWARE, WIDE SPREAD PROBLEM. They already fixed it but aren't sending it to normal users yet...
      "Unit serial number" Serial number + also unit number?
      "Retail receipt or invoice including item, retailer, price, and date -OR- Oculus order number" Dear lord... SOFTWARE WIDE SPREAD PROBLEM. WHY'D THEM NEED THIS ALL... WTH!

      IF SOMEONE CREATES A HACKED OS THAT KILLS EVERYTHING "META" ON THE QUEST 2, AND MAKES IT A PCVR OPTIMISED SIMPLE STR8 AIO-PRODUCT, I'LL INSTALL IT ASAP.  I'll pay DOUBLE for my next PCVR headset, if that means NO META in my Oculus Quest. 

      ComicBookGuy
      ComicBookGuy
      Inspiring
      January 29, 2022

      Edit: ...ya, looks like a good idea to stay away from updating the Quest 2. Why is this firmware update even available? No one wants a blurry Quest 2.

        IIAIronWolf
        Participant
        January 30, 2022

        It wasn't even an option for me. When I tried to use my Quest 2 today it had automatically updated. -___-

          LipeB0ss
          Participant
          January 30, 2022

          This is what happened to me when I got into V35 and everything basic got wonky or broken. 

            IIAIronWolf
            Participant
            January 30, 2022

            I just got the v37 update, which was done without my knowledge or permission. When I went to use the Quest 2, the controllers vibrated when picked up as usual, but only my hands would work. I had to restart the Quest 2 twice before the controllers finally connected and then I was met with my guardian boundary and no menu to confirm the boundary. I then had to turn off the Quest 2 and turn it back on to get to the menu to confirm and enter the Oculus. 
            The new hand gesture menu is extremely fuzzy, there are features listed in these release notes that are missing from my device, there is no longer two separate windows, one on the dash and one in the background (i.e., I can't pull up my applications while the store is open in the window behind it, as before. And I believe my device is also one suffering from a downgrade in video quality although link sharpening was supposed to make it better. This was all found within 20 minutes of use after the update. I stopped using my device after because I was annoyed, so I'm sure there are more issues I just haven't encountered yet.
            Please make your releases ask the user when they want to update. If I had an option, I would not have updated, as I had been seeing these issues all over social media.

              Anonymous
              January 30, 2022

              It's an online service device, you don't and won't get the choice to update or not.

              IIAIronWolf
              Participant
              January 30, 2022

              I get the option on my Xbox and many other online service devices. Developers can always stipulate that certain things will not work if you do not update, without forcing you to update. 👍

                tanubon
                Inspiring
                January 30, 2022

                Unfortunately, force update isn't simple in Meta's case. The timing of the auto installation varies greatly from person to person, and when we check update manually we'll usually get a message "no update" even update is available (this is so annoying), and because updates aren't installed all at once (rolling update), often resulting in missing functionality. Some people never gets all functions. Our system aren't the same. 🙄

                  Fraisedesbois
                  Participant
                  January 30, 2022
                  résolution clarté netteté de l'image parfaite enfin
                    tanubon
                    Inspiring
                    January 30, 2022

                    I notice that moveable app screen position won't be saved... 

                     

                    EDIT: Oops, It's my mistake. Sorry.

                    Fraisedesbois
                    Participant
                    January 30, 2022
                    Please when you talk about V
37 specify the full version Thank you.

                     

                    MysterySteve
                    New Participant
                    January 30, 2022

                    I don't know if anyone see this, but when this update was pushed, a Link problem I had a while ago has returned. This is a problem with it just straight up disconnecting randomly and sometimes having to take several steps to reconnect. I have replaced both the Link cable I was using and the extension cable both at least once, and this kind of stuff only happens once an update like this happens.

                    As of right now, since this update, using Link and expecting it to work for more than 15 minutes is a gamble at best.

                      LipeB0ss
                      Participant
                      February 4, 2022

                      As for me, my Q2 now sometimes beeps the "disconnection" sound, and sometimes shows a warning saying "your Air Link got disconnected, check your bla bla bla" BUT in reality, nothing was disconnected and it's running just fine. Seems like a false-positive for some Air Link problem of fps drop. 
                      **bleep**, stuff is going to BS at "Meta" since they changed the name...

                      siesar
                      Participant
                      February 1, 2022

                      Hi Oculus_RyanS
                      I have seen an issue or bug in V37 when in Horizon Workroom I try to load the logo, I always see this image:

                       

                       

                      Instead other people with V35 see all of the same image.

                      matthiasbuehlmann
                      matthiasbuehlmann
                      Up and Coming
                      February 1, 2022

                      v37.0.0.147 completely broke our App!

                       

                      The App stays completely black now after startup, which is REALLY unfortunate since our build is waiting in the AppLab review queue already for more than two weeks!

                       

                      were there any changes to the graphics drivers in v37.0.0.147 (since it seems to be the OpenGL ES context that crashes) and is this a known problem that is being worked on already?

                        Ianos07
                        Ianos07
                        Inspiring
                        February 1, 2022

                        matthias_buehlmann We kinda have issue too can you give me more context on that OpenGL crash to see if it is related

                          matthiasbuehlmann
                          matthiasbuehlmann
                          Up and Coming
                          February 3, 2022

                          No idea why my other comment with the stack-trace got removed. But anyway, to me it looks like the 37.0.0.147 update made changes to the shader compiler of the graphics driver and the shader compiler now crashes on certain (valid) shader code.

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