Oculus Quest 2 New Update Version 41
Quest update 41 is beginning its roll out today, here’s what’s new!
The big star of version 41 is that finally, horizon home is now a reality. You can now invite a friend into your home environment to hang out in your somewhat personal virtual space, watch a movie or jump into a multiplayer game together.
For movie watching currently oculus tv is the only supported app but meta has stated that this is just the first step in their long term vision for home and they will be adding more features and improving the experience over time.
A reminder here that quest updates roll out slowly to make sure everything is working correctly so if you don’t see it today don’t worry like high school graduation it does eventually happen.
To try this feature go into your friends list in the people slash party app and from there you can invite the fam over to see your horizon home.
Up next more parental supervision tools are hitting the quest. As stated by meta teens will now initiate a request for their parents to respond using the oculus mobile app.
I’m just imagining now kids yelling Mom let me play gorilla tag now!
Once parental supervision is set up parents can block specific apps like we saw in update 40, approve downloads from the store via a notification in the oculus app, see all the apps their child owns, purchase notifications, headset screen time, a list of their oculus friends and lastly the ability to block oculus link and airlink to prevent their child from accessing VR content on their PC. We all know how spicy Steam vr can get.
And again meta plans to evolve the parental control features on a regular basis, probably because they’ve been in trouble with the law when it comes to children and VR. Meta wanted to remind everyone that quest devices are intended for use by people ages 13 and up so I guess the bulk of vr chat and gorilla tag users are officially against the terms of service
Now you can invite your friends over virtually and check on your kids quest activity, are you excited for these version 41 features? Let me know down below and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.
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