From the meta leaker goat Brad Lynch and his private source we found out about some possible new oculus meta quest 2 features coming in the future for the meta quest home environment and dashboard.

A quick resume feature like the one found on the xbox series will be added as part of a system that will expand your home environment. This feature will rid the days of only having one app open at a time and having to completely close out and save before entering another VR experience. This will work for both 2D apps like the browser and VR games. 

This quick resume feature will be built upon a 3 windowed system anchored to different places inside your home space. So when you teleport to let’s say the couch of your home environment you’ll have a set of three custom windows waiting for you in the headset memory and are then triggered to resume when you enter the area. So you can have a window for bigscreen, amazon prime and netflix pop up and then seamlessly jump in when you are by your virtual couch. This of course will then suspend all the other apps that will be anchored in the other areas you just left. The keyword here again is suspend and not close out, so please keep me open daddy, I’ve got some bonelabbin to do.

Overall the dashboard and home area will be rebuilt for better optimization and multitasking more than likely preparing for the launch of the work and productivity based project cambria and hopefully the quest 2 will get to take part in some of those upgrades.

Shout out again to brad and his secret source. What three windows would you have waiting for you everytime you logged in to your quest. Let me know down below and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.

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Project Cambria or maybe the final name of it the Meta Quest 2 Pro headset gets a few words from Mark Zuckerberg during Meta's Q1 2022 earnings call. Here are those words.

“The last priority I want to discuss today is the metaverse. While we're focusing on the biggest opportunities and challenges of today, I think it's important to build the foundation for the next era of social technology as well.

The centerpiece of our strategy is the social platform that we're starting to build with Horizon. It's still early but as we build out the experience, the next focus will be on growing the community. We plan to launch a web version of Horizon later this year that will make it easy for people to step into metaverse experiences from a lot more platforms, even without needing a headset. I think the best experience will be on virtual and eventually augmented reality platforms -- and especially on our platforms like Quest, where in an upcoming release, from the moment you put on your headset you’re going to be embodied in your Meta avatar and ready to interact in Horizon with your friends right from your Quest home.

But making this available everywhere will mean you can interact with anyone on whatever device or platform that they want to use. Our other focus for Horizon is building out the metaverse economy and helping creators make a living working in the metaverse. We expect to be meaningfully better at monetization than others in this space, and we think that should become a sustainable advantage for our platforms as they develop.

On the hardware side, Meta Quest 2 continues to be the leading virtual reality headset. Later this year, we'll release a higher-end headset, codenamed Project Cambria, which will be more focused on work use cases and eventually replacing your laptop or work setup. This premium device will have improved ergonomics and full color passthrough mixed reality to seamlessly blend virtual reality with the physical world. We're also building in eye tracking and face tracking so that your avatar can make eye contact and facial expressions, which dramatically improves your sense of presence.

It's also a good example of why we're developing hardware in addition to the social platforms. We're bringing Horizon to more platforms, but if you want to be able to make eye contact or have your physical facial expressions just automatically get translated to your avatar in real-time, then our hardware will provide the best metaverse experience -- whether you're playing a game or meeting with co-workers in Horizon Workrooms. We'll share more details about Project Cambria in the months ahead as we get ready to launch it.

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The pandemic social deduction sensation among us is coming to quest and virtual reality this fall. As for an exact release date we shall get to that in a moment, but first here is everything we know about among us vr.

Coming to us by way of creators Innersloth and award winning VR devs schell games which are the creators behind the I expect you to die series Until you fall and many others. 

AVR will feature crews of 4-10 players online and will place you in a full 3d version of the skeld, With all the same tasks, emergency meetings, literal finger pointing and backstabbing we all know and love. 

I’m really looking forward to fixing some wires, aligning the engines and clearing asteroids with my actual hands. Or opening and peering through grates to sneak up and cut someone in half of course. We haven’t seen how that will look in VR yet.

The meetings will be taken in person rather than a chat screen which should be real interesting come launch. We have only seen one task in VR which was during the game awards trailer back in december which pointed out with a limited first person view it feels like the imposters will have a much better advantage than the flat screen third person counter part.

As far as release date goes their may have been a leak caught by the site steamdb which tracks updates in the steam games library data base. Just in time for Christmas Among Us could land on tuesday decemeber 13th for quest over and playstation VR. Again this is rumor but the gaming showcase did state a holiday 2022 release so it makes sense. Let’s just hope for sooner.

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If you are stuck on an older version of the oculus quest 2 firmware here is a quick and easy way to force an update to get you updated.

Here’s how to force a quest 2 firmware update if you have been left behind like me. You will need a cellphone that can activate a hotspot and I will say my phone actually doesn’t have hotspot enabled but has the function to be turned on and it still worked for me, and I hope it does for you.

Step one, In your headset go to the quick menu then wifi settings and disconnect your quest 2 from your home wifi. Mine is blanked out here because meta apparently cares about privacy when you record videos on your quest. Everything else on the other hand.…

Now grab your phone and enable your hotspot. You may need to disable your phone wifi to get the hotspot working just a heads up.

Go back into your headset and now connect your quest to your phones hotspot network. it is often named after your phone name like the default network name iPhone for apple users.

Then go to the system menu under settings and check the update tab again and with the quest gods on your side you’ll see that no updates available box turn to pure gold saying update now.

After this I changed my wifi back to my regular network to download the update which can take a while and then I installed it.

I hope this worked for you, I know getting a hotspot working can be finnicky so give it a couple tries if it doesn’t connect at first and happy updating questies.

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Let’s get your quest videos formatted for tiktok. For this method you will need sidequest set up on your quest and computer. If you don’t have sidequest set up, I’ll show you how coming up.

Step one lets connect your quest to your computer with your usb c cable. Open sidequest and make sure your headset is connected by checking the green dot up in the left hand corner.

Now navigate to the right corner and click on the the run adb commands box with the arrow.

Next hit custom command and use these commands:

adb shell setprop debug.oculus.capture.width 1080

adb shell setprop debug.oculus.capture.height 1920

adb shell setprop debug.oculus.capture.bitrate 15000000

adb shell setprop debug.oculus.fullRateCapture 1

Enter them in one at a time and enter after each full line to get your video in vertical 1080 width by 1920 height and at a good quality bit rate.

Be aware that changing these settings and running a higher bit rate video capture can cause stuttering in some games while you are recording just because the quest is trying to do a lot at the same time so feel free to change these settings to what works best for you.

Once you have recorded your gameplay you can come back to sidequest then hit the folder icon, then oculus then video shots and you’ll see your files download to your computer and then upload to tik tok from there or transfer to your phone.

If you want to know how to set up sidequest click this video here:

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Oculus quest gets a new hand tracking 2.0 update, wireless airlink aka VR Air Bridge is real and Meta might be interested in a quest cloud gaming feature in the future.

A new version of hand tracking has hit the quest. You’ll need to be on update 39 to experience the upgrades which include improvements for tracking overall of course, the ability for recognizing overlapping hands and best of all clapping is now available in this black magic of an update. I can’t wait to high five myself in cubism…

Speaking of cubism and games that track your fingies, hand physics lab, air guitar sim unplugged and liteboxer are already implementing the new upgrades. You will notice the improvement in moving and rotating objects in cubism and hand physics lab especially. The days of losing our virtual hands may be nigh

I have already talked about the D link wireless airlink solution dubbed VR Air Bridge which now seems to be all but confirmed by meta. A user manual from DLink has surfaced along with some actual product shots from twitter user reggy o4.

I originally imagined plugging the device into a usb port and just letting it chill but the newly revealed extension cable with a vertical stand makes more sense as line of sight is important for overall performance and connection to the questset. Set up looks simple, apparently just two steps of downloading the drivers from the oculus setup web page and then plugging the device into a usb 3 port. Press F for those who only have usb 2.0. I’m so sorry. 

Lastly again its Bradly. In another firmware code investigation it was found that back in quest version 24 from 2020 there were lines of code referring to something called avalanche cloud gaming. So its possible oculus was testing this feature internally, but obviously since we are 15 iterations later at version 39 this more than likely isn’t a priority for now for Meta. But hey what if this is part of the reason why zuck bought 16,000 GPU’s from nvidia for that metaverse super computer! Or probably just to upload his consciousness to be preserved for all time.

Would you pay for cloud gaming from meta on the quest? Lets talk in the comments and I’ll catch you in the quickie.

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