What you must know
- The Meta Quest 3 June v66 replace addresses points with combined actuality movement seize.
- Transferring objects utilizing the headset’s cameras now not “warp” the atmosphere round them.
- This builds on the latest HDR enhancements in combined actuality imaginative and prescient, bringing the Quest 3’s combined actuality high quality nearer to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional requirements.
One of many hallmark options of the Meta Quest 3 is its colour passthrough imaginative and prescient which permits customers to see the room round them even whereas sporting the headset. Whereas Meta considerably improved the passthrough high quality in comparison with the Quest 2 and Quest Professional, transferring objects nonetheless featured a near-nausea-inducing warp round them.
Fortunately, Meta Quest 3 replace v66 addresses this problem by almost fully eradicating the warping that plagued prior firmware variations. Transferring objects, like palms and even your smartphone, will now not warp the world round them as they did earlier than. Meta beforehand upgraded the passthrough seize high quality within the April v64 replace and this builds upon that replace.
It is an enormous step in the fitting route and brings the Meta Quest 3’s passthrough high quality as much as par with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional requirements, a headset that prices seven instances as a lot as Meta’s flagship standalone combined actuality headset.
My video above showcases the substantial distinction in passthrough high quality between the earlier v65 Could replace and the brand new v66 June replace, closing that all-important combined actuality high quality hole between Meta and Apple’s headsets. Meta introduced that the replace can be out there for all earlier this week, nevertheless it took just a few days for my Quest 3 to get the brand new characteristic.
In case your headset does not look nearly as good simply but, give it a restart by holding down the ability button and tapping restart. As soon as you’ve got bought the v66 June replace, issues will begin wanting considerably higher.
Now that combined actuality video games have gotten actually good and this new replace improves high quality a lot, that upcoming combined actuality yoga sport by Alo Strikes makes much more sense now.
Provided that we’re anticipating to see the Meta Quest 3s at Meta Join 2024 — a less expensive headset that is rumored to nonetheless characteristic colour passthrough just like the dearer Quest 3 — this replace ought to assist Meta additional construct out on its mantra that Quest headsets at the moment are combined actuality as a substitute of digital actuality.
