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Ryanality
Honored Contributor
March 10, 2022

Quest build v38 release notes

These features and enhancements will become available starting the week of March 8th, 2022.

App Library

  • When you are in a Party any owned apps that support enhanced Multiplayer features will be highlighted, making it easier to jump into a multiplayer game/app.

Recently Met

  • You can now view, join and friend recently met players by pressing the Oculus home button when in a game/app.
    • You can also see people you recently played with in the People Tab as well as in the Oculus Mobile App.

MR Couch and Desk

  • MR Couch and Desk are moving from Experimental features to the Guardian settings. Now all users will be able to place persistent desks and couches in their Horizon Home environment.

Tracking Updates

  • We're making improvements to the tracking system on your device. Some users will need to create a new Guardian.

Settings Updates

  • We’ve redesigned the Settings page to make it easier to find what you‘re looking for.
  • In addition to design enhancements, we’re adding a search bar in the Settings menu to use when you know exactly what you’re looking for.

Logo Updates

  • We’ve updated some of the UI elements to use the Meta Logo.

Tooltips

  • Hovering over an option in the Quick Action Menu brings up a tooltip to help guide you through the various Quick Actions available.

Keyboard and Bluetooth

  • Tracked Keyboards and BT settings will now be moving from Experimental Features to Device Settings.
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75 replies

YuanM
New Participant
March 19, 2022

After updating to the V38 version,  puting on the Quest2 and manually pressing the button to turn on the screen, and the screen is still black after three small white dots appear. 

After several attempts, I found that I need to remove Quest2 from head and then press the button to light up the screen .

This was not the case before the update.

March 19, 2022

How do I get V38? I live in the UK and it shows “latest version”.. what do I do??

BubblzZz
Participant
March 19, 2022

Try connecting your device to a personal hotspot for Wi-Fi (from a cellphone), then restart your quest by resetting experimental features. Check and see if it has pushed the update. Repeat this process several times. I have always found that this process helps push the update to my quest.

March 19, 2022

This worked, thank you so much for the help 

BubblzZz
Participant
March 19, 2022

To whichever dev who sees this, 38.0.0.51.727 PC software is a total mess. 120hz mode is completely broken now. Mobile AFI is obviously turned on even when set to disabled. Judder and latency artifacts everywhere. I'm really starting to loose my patience with these updates and software. Every update just makes this technology worse.  This is getting beyond ridiculous and I seriously question the leadership in the software development department.     

New Participant
March 22, 2022

Put on Quest 2 to be greeted with new Meta logo. Ok. And, can't find guardian, try to set guardian, guardian app keeps stopping. com.facebook.spatial...(something cut off) keep stopping. I had to go into sidequest and shut off my guardian via usb-c cable to my phone just to get to the console. So I can use my Quest 2 but I have no guardian. I've seen many many people having issues with the latest versions 37 and 38. You guys need to fix this guardian thing fast, people might get hurt. 

March 22, 2022

Roll Back! Check v.38 PTC megathread, scram!

New Participant
March 22, 2022

Dealing with issues that I have not had since airlink was first released. Main game I play is Elite Dangeorus. When switching roles from ship to on foot it seems deleyed and out of sync for 1 minute to 3 minutes until it finally sinks. Sometimes is does this in the dash menu with no games running. setup is 5600x 3060ti 16 gb ram dedicated router wifi 6 for airlink with ethernet to pc. Has not been an issue in some time.

March 22, 2022

Paradigm Shift!

Participant
March 22, 2022

Please help us with this issue: "2 quest 2 headsets but I am getting error messages when 2 family members try to play same game", the app-sharing function has been a disaster for many of us since the V38 upgrade. thank you. https://forums.oculusvr.com/t5/Support/2-quest-2-headsets-but-I-am-getting-error-messages-when-2-family/td-p/953220

 

March 22, 2022

That is not an issue. You cannot play together online from a shared game. You are sharing one license, meaning one use at a time.

Participant
March 23, 2022

It used to work well before updates. Many people have the same issue.

New Participant
March 24, 2022

After the latest update (with the MetaQuest blue pretzel), I can no longer open the Dead and Buried II app. It says timed out due to no internet connection, and takes me back to the Home Page. The internet connection is fine, and all my other apps work. They work before I try to open D&B, and after I'm sent back to Home. 

March 24, 2022

I'm ok with the way Quick Settings and Settings, Profile, and Notifications are set, from best to worst, if those don't get a change. If and only if, ESPS can't change, for whatever reason I don't need to know, your going to have to give me a complete list of everything, that I can sort Alphabetically and by Release Date Month, in Explore. Store is going to need a Wishlist and Not Interested folder. The top two games my Store view promoted were Creed and Arizona Sunshine, both games I know I'll never play. The runners up were what I have in my App Library, 80% not interested. 100% never sorted to benefit me personally, thats the end so thats my foot, that has to change. Beyond those coin flips, I'm going to need better Event management and better Stats (Move) management. I don't do anything with those. What actually happens to the People section I'm very flexible and open there, whatever. Microsoft put out the best sweep for destructive user created content with Xbox, but where they lacked pretty miserably was with their avatar efforts, never graduated Quick Thrill 30 Second Fad status over here. Heavenly for sim fans and a micro second shrug from nonsim grunts as myself.

Participant
March 24, 2022

Hello, 

I was having a blast and played 99 percent of my games at 120hz over airlink and was having no issues as long as I was on a router channel that wasn't used by others. RTX 3080 gave me a solid 120 frames. As soon as the update came out it's now a judder mess even with the new AFI set to disabled. 90hz is affected as well. Only one game I play in 90hz is Stormland. Although the glitches aren't seen in 90hz I can still say it feel a bit off and loading times have increased (SSD nvme ). Please advised or better yet please, please, please, I'm begging you......... Add a roll back option. I shouldn't have to wait and yes I'll need to wait until it's fixed because it's just awful for me now.

Participant
April 7, 2022

jay4405

 

Stop using 120Hz with v38 firmware. There are issues in this combinatioon for now, as stated here: Air Link Framerate Insurance (AFI) (oculus.com). Use 90Hz, activate AFI (with ODTool, Mobile ASW > Enabled - Framerate Insurance) und everthing works fine... better than before, if that's even possible 😉

120Hz is and was experimental for now, so there is no guarantee it will work in all circumstances.
They will fix it, give 'em some time.

Inspiring
April 7, 2022

In my case i'm using Cable, 72 Hz and 1.0X resolution.