It’s another week and so another accidental or maybe purposeful leak comes out from a quest 2 user. Redditor imlife1102 was given access to what seems to be the horizon home feature that was teased back in october of 2021 where your quest friends can join you in your home as their avatar. The reddit user was able to invite a friend into their home and they were able to move around in their space. I found it interesting that we could see their dashboard when they popped in. Nice animation by the way on the pop in. Im life did share that they were not on the public test channel so it was baked into the version 40 update that they recieved. We actually saw a hint of this feature back in the PTC for version 37 called co presence so this seems to be nearly ready for its release. 

To add to this VR code sleuth Samulia also found new strings of code in the recently released PTC for version 41 that looks to hint at creating new horizon profiles attached to your quest accounts. WIth one prompt in the code saying your horizon profile is how you appear and connect with others in VR. We’ll guide you through the steps to get setup. So it seems we might have a new profile process coming soon.

Maybe this is the answer to removing the need for a facebook account to use a quest headset but honestly I’m really not sure but the one positive is that it looks like you’ll be able to more easily change the name that you want to be called in VR according to this string of code here.

What other leaks are coming? Is this just marketing?

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Today marks the release of the world beyond, a mixed reality demo from Meta for the quest 2 and the future project cambria headset.

To get started you will need to use the room setup feature found inside the settings tab under guardian. Once you are done setting up your room for mixed reality you can now search for the world beyond in the app store and you’ll find it under app lab or use this link here: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4873390506111025

When you jump in it’s a little confusing at first but soon a device comes up from the ground below you that turns your controller into a device when you grab it. 

You soon begin to hear some interesting noises and when you look in the correct spot you’ll see our new little mixed reality tomagatchi friend Oppy. 

Use the newly acquired controller device by clicking the trigger to turn it into a flashlight to search out the randomly placed energy balls throughout your room. 

Once you Pokémon catch ‘em all you can then shoot them from your gun and watch them bounce off your walls and around your room and then our little friend will eat them up and ask you to use voice commands to have opp jump, say hi, or come closer. And yes you can pet ole oppy. !

Once all your energy balls are shot here is where the true magic is revealed. The gun device turns into wall portal shooter where you can then turn your walls into the whimsical forest setting we saw in the project cambria highlight. You can reveal the full scene on all four of your walls and ceiling. No luck with the floor though. 

Next you’ll need to find a couple more energy balls for little oppy and then I’ll let you experience the ending. 

This is a fun demo and I’m excited where devs are going to take this new presence platform feature next. How beyond was your world after trying this demo? Let me know and I’ll catch you in the next quickie. 

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With the newest quest update version 40 an experimental feature landed on our headsets to prepare us for the upcoming mixed reality presence platform. Here is how to find it and set it up.

Inside your headset go to the quick settings menu on the left side of your home nav bar. Then hit the cog wheel for the settings menu and over to guardian. Under general scroll down to room setup dash experimental.

This will take you to a passthrough view, with a pop up box to setup your room in VR.. Hit continue to begin digitally marking your walls by first finding a bottom corner of a wall in your room and pulling the trigger to drop the first marker. I would suggest unlike me start with a wall that isn’t obstructed, then go ahead and pin the top of that corner to set the wall height. Next just mark the top corners of each of the surrounding walls until you connect back with your first corner and hit confirm.

If you’d like you can now outline your desk by marking the floor underneath the left side of your desk first, then the top left corner surface of your desk and then over to the right corner to set the width and then mark the back right corner to mark the depth. 

Feel free to also set up windows and doors by finding the top left corner then dragging to the bottom right corner of those areas.

Drop in a couch or in my case I used my office chair with the same directions as the desk and there you have it, your room is now set up for mixed reality.

Unfortunately the frustrating thing is as of recording this video there is no way to use the room you just set up.. A window pops up asking you to download the Mixed reality app zuck talked about in the project cambria highlight called the world beyond. But I can’t find it in the store, on mobile, desktop or in headset yet. I guess that is why this feature is still under experimental. Hopefully we will get to play with sweet little oppy soon. 

What do you hope to see make use of this room setup feature and the upcoming presence platform. Let me know in the comments and I’ll catch you in the next quickie

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It’s all about security in the newest quest firmware update, here’s what’s going on with version 40.

You can now lock individual apps and games with an unlock pattern (can’t imagine what you would use that for…) But if you share your headset and need to keep a youngling away from blade and sorcery here’s how:

Go to the settings cog wheel then security, click the switch for locked apps and then create a passcode if you haven’t already to enable that switch. Then go to your apps page click the three dots and choose lock on the app of your choice. and wala your secrets are now hidden like your high school live journal

New secure payments hit the quest headset with 3DS enabled credit cards. What’s 3DS you say? Its a form of secure payment where the acronym stands for 3 domains meaning the payment passes through the card issuer, the retailer and then the 3ds platform which basically a secure go between for you and the retailer. 

Side note this will also need to be authorized by each developer for in app purchases. honestly I don’t really know what it is other than your payments will now be extra secure 

Messenger is testing end to end encryption inside chat so when you tell your buddy he sucks in blaston its going to be on lock down.

Your quest Audio is also getting some updates for those who are hard of hearing. A new mono option allows the user to hear the same audio from both right and left channels on your headset and in headphones rather than the default spatial audio setting. 

In this setting you can balance the audio to what suits you if you are hard of hearing in a certain ear you can use a slider towards that ear to feel more audibly centered.

Apparently You will be able to do this under the accessibility tab in the settings menu but as of this video I did not have the feature yet.

Lastly for the keyboarders out there meta adds support for the apple magic numeric keypad and the Logitech k375s and MX keyboards. 

There you have it, what are your thoughts on the big 40 update? Lets hash it out in the comments and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.

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Its no secret that not everyone gets the Quest firmware updates at the same time and the folks at scarred ghost let us know why.

Firstly all quest updates get a gradual release so meta can catch any detrimental bugs and fix them before sending out completely to the masses. So you can be early in the rollout timeline but get the bugs or later in the release and get a clean update but just have to wait.

Meta does not time the rollouts by location so certain regions are not getting them before others its just completely random all over the world so they can test for any issues for different regions and languages. Also the timeline is supposedly randomized as well. If you received update 39 early you may be waiting longer than others for version 40. So its kind of like roulette headset.

As for timing, If the rollout goes smoothly they usually take just a few days to get to thos at the end of the line, but if problems arise of course it will take more time for everyone to get the update.

On top of update release timing, new features also get a staggered release. So you may have the latest update and looking for something like the new hand tracking 2.0 feature but don’t yet have it. Almost as if the feature gets a flag from meta’s servers on if your device can enable it or not.

Meta does this again to catch any bugs with new features they may be crippling to the device and if so they can remotely disable the feature while allowing the full update to proceed to everyone. New special features are usually rolled out over 3 - 5 days but again if there are problems it will be longer. Unfortunately as of right now there isn’t a way to know what features are or aren’t enabled for your device.

If you like to risk it for the bisquit you can sign up for the public test channel to get updates early but of course you can run into problems when testing beta software but you could also be the first one with that new Quest horizon home space feature we heard about forever ago. 

Lifes nothing more than a gamble but to sign up for the PTC go into the newest update version of the oculus app on your phone while near your headset, enable bluetooth on your phone then go to menu at the bottom right then devices and once your headset is connected, go below to advance settings and you’ll see public test channel.

If you’re lucky there may be an opening for you but currently at least for me its full.

Life as a quest update is a lottery, do you get them pretty soon after they are announced? Let me know below and I’ll see you in the next quickie!

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