Meta is discontinuing a characteristic that permits you to see notifications out of your smartphone whereas utilizing a Quest VR headset, based on the patch notes for Quest’s v60 replace. The corporate launched the power to see iOS and Android notifications within the headset in 2021.
Meta hasn’t elaborated within the patch notes on why it is eradicating the characteristic, and it is a disgrace that it is doing so. With out these notifications, it is laborious to know what’s taking place in your smartphone once you’re totally immersed in your Quest except you pull the headset out of your eyes – which forces you to cease what you are doing in your Quest.
That stated, in case you have a Quest 3, the headset’s shade passthrough is nice sufficient to see your smartphone’s display screen for light-weight duties like skimming notifications. However my colleague Adi Robertson stated studying telephone screens on the Quest Professional was “nearly not possible,” and in my expertise the Quest 2’s grainy black-and-white passthrough is a horrible method to take a look at your telephone.
Whereas it is disappointing that v60 is taking away a helpful characteristic, the replace additionally provides some good new issues. There is a new format software app that permits you to “spatially measure, align, and visualize real-world objects instantly in your bodily area.” Quest profiles present “details about your shared experiences and connections” once you go to somebody’s profile (though you possibly can select to maintain that info non-public). The Quest Professional’s CPU and GPU get larger clock speeds when working in combined actuality purposes, and you can also make your cloud backups end-to-end encrypted by including a PIN.
You may learn the complete particulars of the v60 replace on the Meta Quest weblog and within the detailed launch notes. The replace is rolling out now, though Meta says that if you do not have it but, it “ought to be in your digital fingers quickly.”
