Quest Professional recordings now embody the bodily world passthrough background.
Beforehand the real-world parts of blended actuality apps recorded utilizing the in-headset seize would present as empty blackness, however with v47 recordings now embody the bodily world. Technically this now makes Quest Professional a wearable video digital camera, elevating new privateness considerations, although the passthrough high quality is inferior to even a smartphone from 10 years in the past.
Model 47 is the primary main software program replace for Quest Professional since its launch, and the final for this yr. The replace additionally replaces the contoured translucent palms in Quest’s dwelling setting along with your Meta Avatar, so that you see its arms and torso as a substitute.
Meta’s v47 announcement weblog submit additionally claims Background Audio Playback as a brand new experimental characteristic, however this was truly current in v46 since Quest Professional’s launch. It allows you to preserve audio from browser home windows or sideloaded Android apps taking part in within the background, for instance Spotify.
That very same weblog submit says v47 contains “a redesigned Library and new methods to filter and search via your video games”, however my headset doesn’t appear to have this but regardless of being on v47. Meta generally rolls out options progressively over the course of per week or extra.
