Meta Quest update version 54 lets you customize your Skybox

Meta’s received a brand new update for its Meta Quest VR headset, and it consists of new options like the flexibility to alter up your house surroundings’s Skybox with a customized picture, get push notifications for 2D apps, and another gadgets like controller enhancements. The options come within the new version 54 of the Quest’s software program, which is rolling out now to all headsets.

The new Custom Skybox View function lets you carry your personal high-resolution photographs to your house surroundings as a VR backdrop and at last lets you teleport someplace that’s not a part of the default set. Unfortunately, it’s simply experimental for now, so visiting pals aren’t going to have the ability to see what you have up — although, if somebody decides to make their house a darkish room lined with a menagerie of porcelain clowns, their Quest pals aren’t going to need to verify 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 function permits push notifications from non-VR apps, like Messenger, to look within the headset. Post-update, you’ll be prompted by the 2D app to allow notifications when you launch it. Compatible 2D apps may even now be capable to seem within the Quick Actions menu, and its notifications could be detailed, like displaying a photograph of the Facebook person in a good friend request notification or a sender’s textual content in Messenger.

You can even consolidate messages from the identical supply to have a extra organized really feel or simply shush all of them in (*54*) Not Disturb mode. Follow requests may even now be grouped collectively on the prime of your notifications.

There’s additionally a handful of different gadgets added to v54 of the Meta Quest launch. The update consists of 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 gadgets embody Physical Space setting consolidation, avatar mirror availability in additional environments, the combination of filter / type apps in App Library into search, and enhancements to the headset’s means to recollect boundaries. And the headset’s Light theme has graduated from experimental to the primary system settings — a transfer the brand new Custom Skybox View function would possibly make if it will get fashionable sufficient.