Your Meta Quest 3, or 3S, will have access to the latest Horizon OS Update (V81), and with it some serious upgrades to your digital horizon -home experience and serious changes to multitasking in VR or MRI.
First, your virtual Meta Horizon home options have been replaced with a single room of higher quality with four landscape choices: Horizon Central for a futuristic city of shiny, midnight to a night -time view of plains at night with the Northern Lights in Heaven, the valley of a view of a majestic landscape, and oceanarium moving your home deep underwater -and even inviting some sea storage to your room.
The space is now easier to explore with much more freedom of movement, and there is a new Instagram window that you can activate to show your choice of image or video from Meta’s social media platform.
You can also decorate your space with anchored windows. Just open a window – say YouTube in your browser or Techradar’s website – and on its toolbar (which usually sits below it) you can choose a new anchor setting.
This not only freezes the window in the room for this session. Let’s say you leave your VR home and go a little into a game and then finish again. When you return, you will see that your window is exactly where you anchored it.
You can anchor three windows in your VR home and three in mixed reality for a current total six.
Productivity upgrades and more
In addition to anchored windows, this update also delivers a serious productivity upgrade in the form of more active windows. You may seem to have up to 12 open at once, but I have tested what has uploadvr, and currently we are stuck with only the usual limit of six (three floating freeform and three open in each of the standard positions). This can be a feature that lands when the V81 is slightly older.
Windows 11 Remote Desktop is intended to have trained from being an experimental feature, but unfortunately it is not at the moment. Again, this can be a change that happens as part of its own function development rather than the initial V81 launch.
Another change we will have to wait for is Quickplay, even if it’s not Meta’s fault.
This update allows you to fall into a new VR game before it is fully downloaded – something you can do for multiple games on your PS5 and Xbox Series X – but it will only work if the developer enables it.
I can see that this is convenient for a great VR title as Arkham Shadow Where it doesn’t matter if only the first half of the game has been downloaded as the second half should have been downloaded long before you can reach it.
More upgrades
This update is a big one. I still have many more features to run through as the addition of PCVR games in your Quest library.
These appear, if you have created and use Quest -Link to play PC games on your Meta Quest 3 .. Now, if you assume you have your PC created, these games can be launched from your headset just like an independent VR title.
There has also been a smash of improvements in security with the world’s security system that will remind you to recycle or create appropriate limits to your VR games. The horizon feed must now show you a better selection of curated content, and Meta AIS Logic is also intended to be better at picking up what you mean – so if you say something is too high, it must understand that you want the volume to be turned down.
This is a serious upgrade to your quest headset and the update should be ready to install if your Quest 3 or Quest 3S has not already downloaded it.
