What the Quest? Project Cambria, Oculus Quest 2 Pro so many rumors are swirling right now. Heres a quick round up of what has recently surfaces as far as specs and release date for project cambria or maybe the quest 2 pro.

The rumors are swirling, the image leaks are falling from the sky so what in the oculus hemmingway is happening???

Supply chain analyst Ming CHi Kuo doubles down on his claims of a quest 2 pro coming in the second half of this year. With two 2160 by you guessed it 2160 mini led panels (you know because they are square), dual element pancake lenses, with facial expression recognition and he believes the headset should ship nearly 2 million units this year. Just in time for a rich person’s christmas. Here’s to you blank check kid.

Now the question we all are asking, is this project cambria zuck bucks was talking about back in october or is it something different? The reality is we just don’t know.

Youtuber and VR data miner extroidanaire Brad Lynch gave his details on what he too believes to be a quest 2 pro from a source that he also knows in the supply chain world that actually was able to use the device. Sounds like I need a supply chain friend, any takers? I can give you an oculus store referral code for 30 bones, don’t spend it all in one place (wink) oh wait.

The headset as bradley’s source describes it has two cameras on the front under each eye for gathering depth data and then 1 high resolution RGB camera in the center, that works in tandem with the 2 depth cameras to create a full color passthrough mode for XR experiences.

His source also confirmed that the field of view is similar to the Quest 2 and that the front is much thinner than the Q2. The IPD adjustment is full movement and smooth rather than the 3 clicky settings we have now and comes with a visual indicator for what your IPD actually is in milimeters. Me I’m a 59.1 and you know what that means..

The source shared that the HMD was very good at facial recognition and was able to track their eyebrows and yes nostril movement.

Sadly though the source did reiterate that it didn’t feel like a big upgrade in the terms of resolution and FOV but was very impressed with the light weight, clarity and form factor. The audio experience was also similar to quest 2.

So basically this may be an xbox one s or playstation slim for your face. 

Finally brad believes it will launch along side a facebook connect presentation in the fall.

Well what you you all think? I mean I still like my Q2 so I’m diamond handing until I see a full iteration but glad to see another VR headset in the works.

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Here are the final details on new features and updates coming to the quest 2 via the version 39 update.

A Quest update is upon us version 39 will soon be rolling out. In it you will find the mountain study home environment that places you in a mountain retreat so you can set up your desk and virtual office in the view of a snow capped mountain. 

Personally I would have liked to just you know be outside, maybe put my computer on a rock looking up at the actual mountain not through a window? Why stay inside when in VR we literally go anywhere! Anyways to find this new environment hit the new virtual workspace tab in your quest settings menu.

Up next multitasking is now official and no longer experimental so it is here to stay along with a few quality of life tweaks like making it easier to swap between multiple apps and return to whatever you last had open. The tri window experience is ELITE!

The king of update 39 is for us mac kids. Share to headset is finally coming to ios. SHare to headset if you missed it lets you send vr content from your phone to your headset much more easily. So instead of finding that VR post on reddit and then going to your quest then browser and then searching and sifting through posts you can send the link right from your phone and have it waiting on your headset the next time you put it on. 

Reminder for this to work make sure your quest is on and bluetooth is enabled on your phone. Then find your link on your phone, click share, choose the oculus app on your phone then “open now” and choose your headset and it will be waiting for you like your dog waits for you at the door for you to come home from work. Its kinda like that…

Lastly the quest browser logo has changed. Please quiet down its hard to finish this video over your excitement!. 

There you have it version 39. Not much to write home about but hey regular updates are better than no updates, well unless they start bricking and screwing up your headset.  Dang you 38!!!!

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Meta may be working with wireless manufacturer D-Link to create a USB wireless air link dongle that will connect your headset to your PC for more PCVR goodness.

Basically take air link or Virtual Desktop but instead of relying on the quality of your router and it’s connection that’s probably shared with 15 other devices in your house you rely on a single connection from your headset to this wireless USB dongle currently known as VR Air Bridge. 

Twitter user ItsKaitlyn03 a software engineer discovered the code found inside a new driver update package from Oculus. Kaitlyn believes this VR Air Bridge is based off the D-Link AX1800 Wifi 6 USB adapter that currently sells for $65 which basically gives your PC an external wifi card. This Meta Dongle would do the same but a direct connection from your quest 2 your pc. This would absolutely boost the quality and stability of airlink for most people especially those without wifi 6 routers. And with many of us sharing our wifi router connection with people in our home and probably aren’t able to be right next to our router, a dedicated wireless connection would be primo. 

This dongle was actually alluded to back in 2021 during a twitter spaces conversation with Oculus CTO John Carmack and VP of Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth. Lets listen in:

Well I hope this possible dongle won’t be “boutique” and at $200 be more expensive than the renewed 64 gig models of the Quest 2 floating around.. I do wonder if there will be another piece that plugs into the usb c port of my headset to handle the connection? I assume that there would be and then the question of battery life comes into effect and its all a mess from there. 

But at the end of the day this is all conjecture though it could be very promising for the future.

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Learn how to download oculus quest 2 videos to your PC for editing. Grab those Meta Quest 2 video files and make something epic!

To Download your quest 2 videos to your PC. Turn on your headset then Grab a usb C cable and connect your headset to your PC. Now jump inside your headset and hit allow permission on the prompt that shows. Then go back to your PC, you may see a setting pop up box showing that your quest 2 is plugged in. Now under your file explorer scroll on the left side to find your quest 2 then double click internal shared storage then, oculus, then video shots and booya there are all your clips. You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope that helps

You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope this helps and happy editing!

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Here's how to download your oculus quest gameplay videos to your mac for editing and posting to the socials.

To Download your quest 2 videos to your MAC we first will need to download the android file transfer app: https://www.android.com/filetransfer/.

Once that is installed go ahead and turn on your headset, then Grab a usb C cable and connect your quest to your mac. Now jump inside your headset and hit allow access to data on the prompt that shows.

Then go back to your mac and hopefully Android File Transfer automatically popped up if not just open the program and you will see the file folder index of your quest in there.

Now click the oculus folder, then video shots and booya there are all your clips.

You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope this helps and happy editing!

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Meta announced its MetaQuest Gaming Showcase for 2022 So to prepare us for our future I figured let's take a look at the past oculus quest gaming showcase and then make some predictions for what we could expect for game announcements this year.

So the run down from last year the show was hosted by Oculus executive Producer Ruth Bram and she has confirmed she will be hosting again this year. Ruth announced updates for Pistol Whip, War Hammer, The Climb 2, Star Wars Tales from the galaxy’s edge and finishing the show with the afterschocks update for Walking Dead Saints and Sinners. 

As far as new titles for the quest went Lone Echo 2 was announced along with Star Wars Pinball, I expect you to die 2, carve snowboarding, after the fall, wraith the oblivion afterlife and of course Resident Evil 4. Which took up the bulk of the show as we all know now it should have. So inside the 27 minute presentation we learned about 7 new titles hitting quest and 5 big updates for previously released titles. 

I will say many of the updates and new games were revealed to be hitting the oculus store either the day of the event or within the next month so this years showcase may have some actionable titles to play right after the presentation, along with a flash sale in the oculus store. And who doesn’t love to save that meta cash!?

For this years presentation we have already seen confirmation that Among US will be featured as they stated on twitter and I’m hoping we get a full release date slash the ol’ and its available now E3 moment but we shall see. Games I’m hoping to see more of and hopefully get a release date for are Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, (lets hope we don’t have to buy the newly revealed GTA+ woof) and those Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell VR games we haven’t heard much of since 2020. 

We do know from Facebook Connect that the devs of After The Fall, Vertigo Games are working on four new releases for the quest and they confirmed some of the titles they are working on are set in game worlds from deep silver so maybe we will see something from saints row or Dead Island? 

And lastly Boneworks creators Stress Level Zero have been working on a Quest game for quite some time now that I’m really hoping gets announced and that it somehow tied to boneworks, because a standalone Q2 boneworks would be amazing. I also wonder if we will hear about this new annual NFL game from StatusPro. I guess we shall see.

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