Meta Quest will now let you customize your home virtual world

Meta’s acquired a brand new replace for its Meta Quest VR headset, and it contains new options like the power to alter up your home surroundings’s Skybox with a customized picture, get push notifications for 2D apps, and another objects like controller enhancements. The options come within the new model 54 of the Quest’s software program, which is rolling out now to all headsets.

The new Custom Skybox View characteristic lets you deliver your personal high-resolution photographs to your home surroundings as a VR backdrop and eventually lets you teleport someplace that’s not a part of the default set. Unfortunately, it’s simply experimental for now, so visiting buddies aren’t going to have the ability to see what you have up — although, if somebody decides to make their home a darkish room lined with a menagerie of porcelain clowns, their Quest buddies aren’t going to need to test that out.

Custom Skybox View is designed to just accept 360-degree JPG or PNG photographs with a 6144 x 3160 decision. You can allow it by going to Experimental Settings > Personalization tab after which scrolling to the underside of the Virtual Environment web page.

The new 2D app notification characteristic allows push notifications from non-VR apps, like Messenger, to seem within the headset. Post-update, you’ll be prompted by the 2D app to allow notifications when you launch it. Compatible 2D apps will additionally now be capable of seem within the Quick Actions menu, and its notifications might be detailed, like exhibiting a photograph of the Facebook person in a good friend request notification or a sender’s textual content in Messenger.

You may consolidate messages from the identical supply to have a extra organized really feel or simply shush all of them in Do Not Disturb mode. Follow requests will additionally now be grouped collectively on the high of your notifications.

There’s additionally a handful of different objects added to v54 of the Meta Quest launch. The replace contains some tweaks to the Meta Quest controller that ought to enhance the accuracy of monitoring and make taking part in Beat Saber much less irritating.

Some different objects embody Physical Space setting consolidation, avatar mirror availability in additional environments, the mixing of filter / kind apps in App Library into search, and enhancements to the headset’s capability to recollect boundaries. And the headset’s Light theme has graduated from experimental to the principle system settings — a transfer the brand new Custom Skybox View characteristic may make if it will get in style sufficient.