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I agree, not only do the only ones look sharper but they were way less intensive. I loved watching movies in the bubble void environment but now my battery life has shortened by about 50% id say and im stuck using either passthrough or the new forced environment.
- MetaStoreHelp6 months agoCommunity Manager
Hey there shani132 !
We saw you mentioned your battery life has cut in half, and we wanted to get in touch. We have a handy guide right here about maximizing the battery life of your headset.If it seems like you're getting less than 90 minutes on a single charge, we'd love for you to get in touch with our support team so that we can look into this further for you.
We hope to hear from you soon!
- shani1326 months agoExplorer
this is about 50% of my usual battery life which would be in the bubble void environment in V79 which I could get about 3 hours of charge from, so i'm still getting 90ish+ mins of charge time but thats nothing compared to the simple void environment of the old version.
- Maccyb1236 months agoExpert Consultant
Yes, the resolution is very disappointing compared to the old environments. My battery life is ok, but the low res environments give me a headache if I look too long. I can't understand why it's so bad.
- shani1326 months agoExplorer
I used to use the Bubble Void environment and could quite consistently get 3 hours of watching movies on 1 charge but now I can barely get 2 if even that. The headset also gets a lot hotter than with the old environment.
- steve_406 months agoHonored Visionary
If battery and temperature are misbehaving, fully power off and on the headset. I always seem to have to do this after any software update, after the usual quick 'restart'. Powering off always fixes the problem.
- steve_406 months agoHonored Visionary
After the last software update (v81.1034 build 5131230.23080.520) it looks to me like the environment resolution has decreased slightly (maybe by ~15%) and the antialiasing has gotten a bit worse (by about 15%). It could be my imagination, but the UI did seem to be a lot clearer before this update. Perhaps Meta is downgrading the visuals to increase battery performance.
- steve_405 months agoHonored Visionary
OMG. I've just realised that after the last update, I can now anchor my apps. Hurrah! But I am still currently limited to 3 open apps at once, not 12, like we are supposed to get with v81. Also, anchoring apps seems to eat up a lot of the RAM needed for playing games.