Meta’s new Quest update has faster hand tracking and at-a-glance PC connections

Meta has announced the v72 Quest update, and it’s packed pinch features for illustration faster manus tracking, an easier measurement to brace your headset pinch a Windows 11 PC, and amended support for showing your keyboard while you’re successful afloat virtual reality. The update is rolling retired gradually, which besides goes for definite features truthful you whitethorn not beryllium capable to usage them immediately.

Meta says you tin now link to a paired PC pinch the Quest’s Remote Desktop characteristic simply by looking astatine it and tapping the “Connect” fastener that appears supra your keyboard. That’s akin to really it useful connected the Vision Pro, but here, you’ll request the Mixed Reality Link app installed connected your machine earlier you tin brace the devices together from wrong your Quest headset’s Settings app. The characteristic requires Windows 11 22H2 and newer.

Also, successful Quest v72, the institution says it’s “rolling retired a much wide keyboard search system” that should observe and fto immoderate keyboard astir you look done a passthrough “window” while you’re successful a virtual environment, akin to the Vision Pro. Quest headsets person had a characteristic that shows a virtual type of your keyboard wherever your existent 1 is since 2021, but that has only ever worked pinch circumstantial keyboards.

Meta besides says it has made the manus cursor much unchangeable erstwhile navigating, pinching to prime things, and pinching and dragging windows. The institution besides says it’s now easier to usage your hands while successful confined spaces and that it added a “hand ray visualization” to thief find and target things pinch the cursor.

There is simply a small spot much successful the update, too, including caller unrecorded captions for calls from the People app and the summation of nonstop messaging successful the Instagram app. Meta besides added a Media Gallery app for viewing your images, videos (spatial included), and screenshots.