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In a talk titled ‘High-PPI Fast-Switch Display Development for Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets’, Meta display engineer Cheon Hong Kim detailed the headset’s display architecture and discussed the design challenges of using LCD for VR.

It’s essential that displays used in VR headsets only illuminate the pixels for a small fraction of each frame – a technique called Low Persistence. That’s because each frame represents an exact moment in time, whereas in real life as you rotate or move your head the light arriving to your eyes will continuously change. If the pixels were constantly illuminated, your eyes would be receiving light for the original position even as your head turned, and your brain perceives this as motion blur. The original Oculus Rift Development Kit shipped in 2013 had this problem, and it was solved in Development Kit 2 in 2014.

LCD displays were originally thought unsuitable for VR, given the much longer response time. But since the release of the Windows MR headsets in 2017, a new type of LCD panels called ‘fast switch’ have become available. These panels illuminate the backlight for a fraction of the frame, after waiting for the liquid crystal to “settle down”. Quest 2, like Oculus Go and Rift S before it, use such a panel.

The 1920×3664 resolution and 120 Hz max refresh rate were already publicly known, but the talk revealed the panel’s exact 5.46 inch size and density: 773 pixels per inch.

It’s also noteworthy that Meta revealed the panel’s brightness – 100 nits. Keep in mind that figure is when using low persistence, so it would likely be much brighter if used outside a headset.

Meta also revealed some interesting physical properties of the display. Since Quest 2 has three IPD settings and two lenses but only one panel, only a subsection of the panel is used at once. And because the lenses are closer to circular than square, the very corner of the display is never needed – so it was simply cut out to save space.

This approach of using a single panel with an active area subsection means each eye actually gets fewer than the 1832×1920 pixels listed in the Quest 2 specifications on the Meta Store – roughly 1720×1890.

These factors are important considerations when specifying and sourcing panels for VR headsets, but Cheon acknowledged Quest 2 has some of the issues outlined here. Meta still hasn’t released a headset fully free from the screen door effect.

In the conclusions slide, the key display resolution spec of Quest 2 was revealed, the angular resolution measured in pixels per degree. Meta says Quest 2 has 21 pixels per degree. The generally accepted figure for “retinal” human eye resolution is 60 pixels per degree. While VR headsets have been making solid advancements – the Oculus Rift had roughly 14 pixels per degree – there’s still clearly a long way to go.

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The Oculus Quest 2 is a virtual reality (VR) headset created by Oculus, a division of Meta. Developers can now build and distribute 2D and 3D Progressive Web Apps (PWA) that take advantage of Oculus Quest 2"s multitasking feature.

The Oculus Quest 2 is a virtual reality (VR) headset created by Oculus, a division of Meta. It is the successor to the company"s previous headset, the Oculus Quest. The device is capable of running as both a standalone headset with an internal, Android-based operating system, and with Oculus-compatible VR software running on a desktop computer when connected over USB or Wi-Fi. It uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 system on a chip with 6 GB of RAM. The Quest 2"s display is a singular fast-switch LCD panel with 1,832 × 1,920 pixels per eye resolution that runs at a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz.

Currently there are three browsers available for the Oculus Quest 2: Wolvic, a successor to Firefox Reality, and the built-in Oculus Browser. This article focuses on the latter. The Oculus website introduces the Oculus Browser as follows.

"Oculus Browser provides support for the latest web standards and other technologies to help you create VR experiences on the web. Today"s 2D web sites work great in Oculus Browser because it"s powered by the Chromium rendering engine. It"s further optimized for Oculus headsets to get the best performance and to enable web developers take advantage of the full potential of VR with new APIs, like WebXR. Through WebXR, we"re opening the doors to the next frontier of the web."

As you can see, the current version 18.1.0.2.46.337441587 of the Oculus Browser is based on Chrome 95.0.4638.74, that is only one version behind the current stable version of Chrome, which is 96.0.4664.110. If the user switches to mobile mode, VR changes to Mobile VR.

For Oculus Quest 2, Oculus Browser renders both 2D web page content and WebXR at a 90 Hz refresh rate. When watching fullscreen media, Oculus Browser optimizes the device refresh rate based on the frame rate of the video, for example, 24 fps. The Oculus Quest 2 has a device pixel ratio of 1.5 for crisp text.

On October 28, 2021, Jacob Rossi, Product Management Lead at Meta (Oculus), shared that PWAs were coming to Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2. In the following, I describe the PWA experience on Oculus and explain how to build, sideload, and test your PWA on the Oculus Quest 2.

Login state is shared between Oculus Browser and PWAs, allowing users to seamlessly switch between the two. Naturally, Facebook Login is supported out of the box. The Oculus Browser includes a password manager that allows users to store and share their passwords securely between the browser and installed app experiences.

Browser windows and windows of installed PWAs can be freely resized by the user. The height can vary between 625 px and 1,200 px. The width can be set between 400 px and 2,000 px. The default dimensions are 1,000 × 625 px.

PWAs can be controlled with the Oculus left and right controllers, Bluetooth mice and keyboards, and via hand tracking. Scrolling works via the thumb sticks on the Oculus controllers, or by pinching the thumb and the index finger and moving in the desired direction. To select something, the user can point and pinch.

Permissions in Oculus Browser work pretty much the same way as in Chrome. The state is shared between apps running in the browser and installed PWAs, so users can switch between the two experiences without having to grant the same permissions again.

Albeit many permissions are implemented, not all features are supported. For example, while requesting the geolocation permission succeeds, the device never actually gets a location. Similarly, the various hardware APIs like WebHID, Web Bluetooth, etc. all pass feature detection, but don"t actually show a picker that would let the user pair the Oculus with a hardware device. I suppose feature detectability of APIs will be refined once the browser matures.

After enabling Developer Mode, debugging PWAs on Oculus Quest 2 works exactly as described in Remote debug Android devices.On the Oculus device, browse to the desired site in Oculus Browser.

People can use the browser itself or the Oculus Store to discover PWAs. Just like with any other browser, installed PWAs also work in Oculus Browser as websites running in a tab. When a user visits a site, the Oculus Browser will help them discover the app if (and only if) it is available in the Oculus Store. For users that already have the app installed, Oculus Browser will help them easily switch to the app if they desire.Currently the BeforeInstallPrompt event will not fire in Oculus Browser, despite feature detection reporting it to be supported.

Multiple Meta divisions have created PWAs for the Oculus Quest 2, for example Instagram and Facebook. These PWAs run in standalone app windows that don"t have a URL bar and that can be freely resized.

At the time of this writing, there is a small but growing number of PWAs for the Oculus Quest 2 on the Oculus Store. Spike lets users experience all the essential work tools like email, chat, calls, notes, tasks, and to-dos from their inbox in a virtual environment hub right in the Spike app.

More PWAs like Slack, Dropbox, or Canva are coming, as teased in a video featuring Jacob Rossi that was released in the context of Facebook"s Connect conference in 2021.

Meta outlined the required steps in their documentation. In general, PWAs that are installable in Chrome should oftentimes work out of the box on Oculus.

There are some important differences compared to Chrome"s installability criteria and the Web App Manifest spec. For example, Oculus only supports left-to-right languages at the moment, whereas the Web App Manifest spec enforces no such constraints. Another example is start_url, which Chrome strictly requires for an app to be installable, but which on Oculus is optional. Oculus offers a command line tool that lets developers create PWAs for the Oculus Quest 2, which allows them to pass the missing (or override the existing) parameters in the Web App Manifest.

ovr_multi_tab_enabled(Optional) If true, this boolean field will give the PWA a tab bar similar to Oculus Browser. In multi-tab PWAs, internal links that target a new tab (target="_new" or target="_blank") will open in new tabs within the PWA window. This differs from single-tab PWAs where such links would open to a Oculus Browser window. This feature is currently being standardized as Tabbed Application Mode.

To generate a Meta Quest compatible Android project that wraps your PWA, run the init command with the --metaquest flag and follow the wizard:bubblewrap init --manifest="https://your.web.app/manifest.json" --metaquest

This will output a file called app-release-signed.apk. This file can be installed on the device or published to the Meta Quest Store, Google Play Store or any of the other Android app distribution platforms.Pro tip: you can also use the --chromeosonly flag in addition to the --metaquest flag to make APK files compatible not only with Meta Quest and regular Android devices, but also with ChromeOS devices.

APK files generated by Oculus Platform Utility are only compatible with Meta Quest devices and cannot be run on regular Android devices. Also they can only be published to the Meta Quest Store and App Lab.

PWABuilder is an open source project developed by Microsoft, that allows developers to package and sign their PWAs for publishing to various stores, including Microsoft Store, Google Play Store, App Store, and Meta Quest Store.

To enable Android Debug Bridge (ADB) on the Meta Quest device, you must enable developer mode in the companion mobile app. Before you can put your device in developer mode, you must belong to (or have created) a developer organization in the Oculus Developer Center.

Submission and consideration for the Oculus Store is only available if you have been approved as an Meta Quest Store developer. Distribution of PWAs via App Lab is not currently available. The Meta team will share more on when and how you can submit a PWA to App Lab soon.

Apart from submitting apps to the Oculus Store, developers can also distribute their apps via platforms like SideQuest directly to consumers safely and securely, without requiring store approval. This allows them to get an app directly to end users, even if it is early in development, experimental, or aimed at a unique audience.

To test multi-tab apps, I created a little test PWA that demonstrates the various link features: namely opening a new in-PWA tab, staying on the current tab, opening a new browser window, and opening in a WebView staying on the current tab. Create a locally installable copy of this app by running the commands below on your machine.ovr-platform-util create-pwa -o test.apk --android-skd ~/bin/android-10 --web-manifest-url https://tomayac.github.io/oculus-pwa-test/manifest.json --package-name com.example.pwa

To take the instructions for a spin, I created an Oculus version of my most recent PWA, SVGcode. You can download the resulting APK file output.apk from my Google Drive. If you want to investigate the package further, I have a decompiled version, too. Find the build instructions in package.json.

Using the app on Oculus works fine, including the ability to open and save files. The Oculus Browser doesn"t support the File System Access API, but the fallback approach helps. The only thing that didn"t function is pinch-zooming. My expectation was for it to work by pressing the trigger button on both controllers and then moving the controllers in opposed directions. Other than that, everything else was performant and responsive, as you can see in the embedded screencast.

As you can see, entering VR mode requires the user"s permission. Permissions are asked once per origin. Requesting permissions leaves the immersive mode. Notifications are currently not supported.

As announced at Meta Connect 2022, Meta Quest Browser has added support for WebXR Augmented Reality (AR), also known as Mixed Reality (MR), on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro devices.

PWAs on Oculus Quest 2 are a lot of fun and very promising. The endless virtual canvas that lets users scale their screen to whatever fits the current task best has a lot of potential to change the way we work in the future. While typing in VR with hand tracking is still in its infancy and, at least for me, doesn"t work very reliably yet, it works well enough for entering URLs or typing short texts.

What I like the most about PWAs on the Oculus Quest 2 is that they are just regular PWAs that can be used unchanged in a browser tab or through a thin APK wrapper without any platform-specific APIs. Targeting multiple platforms with the same code has never been easier. Here"s to PWAs in VR and AR on the web. The future is bright!

The Quest 2 takes advantage of the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ XR2 platform and 6GB of RAM for optimal performance. Both displays have a resolution of 1832 x 1920 pixels per screen. Play with complete freedom of movement with these stand-alone 6 DoF headset.

The Oculus mobile application combined with the helmet"s front camera and the Guardian system makes configuration very intuitive. The Guardian system delimits your playing area to warn the player of obstacles.

The Oculus library of games and experiences offers hundreds of varied titles for families and gamers alike. Discover Oculus applications and games (Beat Saber, Echo VR, Phantom: Covert Ops, Star Wars, Robo Recall, Netflix...).

So you just snagged a Meta Quest 2. Maybe you’re ready to finally try virtual reality, are really excited about the metaverse or just got tired of trying to buy a PlayStation 5. Either way, you now own one of the best VR headsets available — but there are still a few tricks to keep in mind in order to get the absolute most out of your new gadget.

From getting social and tracking your workouts to turning your headset into a full-on gaming machine, here are 15 tips every Meta Quest 2 (formerly known as Oculus Quest 2) owner should know.

If you"re ready to get in on the fun for yourself, the Quest 2 is our favorite virtual reality headset thanks to its attainable price, ease of use and great software library.

Once you’ve set up a Meta account (or signed up via your Facebook account, which is now optional), the Meta Quest 2 makes it pretty easy to add friends from both your Facebook contacts as well as any VR enthusiasts you meet in-game.

The quickest way to add friends is to open the Meta Quest mobile app, select Menu at the bottom of the screen select People. From there, you can search for your pals via username, or share your own profile on social media to help people find you. You can also open the People tab from the home screen of your Quest 2, where you’ll see your online friends as well as friend requests and suggestions based on your Facebook account and play history.

Just like your phone or PC, the Quest 2 makes it easy to quickly change settings on the fly. To access the Quick Settings menu, press the Oculus button on your right Touch controller and click on the area on the home bar that features the time and battery percentage. From here, you can easily do things like adjust brightness and volume, change Wi-Fi networks, mute your microphone and enable Air Link for connecting to a PC. And if you need to dig deeper, you can click the Settings icon at the top right to access things like home screen personalization and controller options.

The Touch controllers work well enough for basic navigation, but you can get around your Quest 2 even faster using voice commands. To enable this, open the Quick Settings menu and select the triangular Voice Commands icon. Once you get through a quick setup process, you’ll be able to summon the voice assistant with a quick double tap of the Oculus button.

You can use voice commands to do things like launch apps, open the Oculus Store and check the time or weather, and they’ve worked pretty reliably in our testing. Note that you can also enable hands-free “Hey Facebook” voice commands in your headset’s Experimental menu — just keep in mind that it’s a beta feature that might not work as consistently as using your controller. If you’re worried about privacy, Meta notes that the headset isn’t listening when the mic or your headset is turned off, and you can decide whether or not your voice commands are stored.

You don’t even need to be wearing your Quest 2 to shop for apps and games — all you need is your phone. Fire up the Meta Quest app for iOS or Android and open up the Store tab, and you’ll be able to purchase anything on the Oculus Store. It’ll even start automatically downloading to your Quest 2 so that you’ll be ready to play as soon as you get home from school or work. You can also do the same thing on Meta’s website.

And if you’re not ready to drop even more cash after buying a $400 headset, there’s plenty of free content available on the Store. To get to the free stuff, open the Store icon from the home screen of your Quest 2, go to the Filter By menu on the right, select Pricing and click “Free.” Or, if you’re on mobile, simply type “free” in the search bar when in the Store. The Quest 2’s selection of free stuff includes popular games like Echo VR, PokerStars VR and Gun Raiders, social experiences like Horizon Worlds and entertainment apps like Netflix and YouTube VR. You can also check out productivity tools like Spatial if you’re looking to do some work in the metaverse.

Don’t want to miss an important call or text while you’re deep in the metaverse? To enable phone notifications on your Quest 2, open the Meta Quest app and go to Menu > Devices > Phone notifications. From here, you’ll be prompted to perform a few quick steps to pair your phone to your headset. After that, you’ll see calls, texts and app notifications while you’re gaming, working out or just kicking back in VR.

Within the Meta Quest app, you can customize when you want to get text and call notifications (such as always, or only when you’re at the home screen). And once you start getting notifications for apps such as Discord and Instagram, you can customize how often you’d like them to appear.

While the Quest 2 feels and performs great out of the box, there are a few accessories worth considering that’ll let you get even more out of your headset. Those who do a lot of working out will want to consider a face cover, such as this $29 Meta model or this cheap $13 VR Cover that comes in a range of colors. These covers are designed to be easy to clean and more sweat-resistant than the foam face cover that comes in the box, and in the case of third-party options like the VR Cover, will let you personalize your Quest 2 with fun colors.

Another popular accessory is the $120 Quest 2 Elite Strap with Battery, which is designed to provide a more stable, adjustable fit and packs a built-in battery that claims to double the battery life of Meta’ headset. We’ve yet to test the Elite Strap ourselves, but it’s worth taking a look at if you’d like your Quest 2 to last longer.

The Quest 2 has a handy Passthrough feature that lets you see the real world via the headset’s cameras whenever you step out of the virtual play area you’ve set up. But you can also check your surroundings at any time with a quick double tap on either side of your headset.

If you’re using your Quest 2 to work out in apps like Supernatural, FitXR and Beat Saber, you can use the built-in Move app to track your fitness progress across all of them. Move is installed on your Quest 2 by default, so all you need to do is select the grid-like Apps icon from your home screen in order to find it.

Thanks to a recent software update, you can keep tabs on your Quest 2 fitness stats right from your phone by firing up the Meta Quest mobile app and selecting Menu > Move. Better yet, iPhone users can even link their Move data to the Apple Health app, ensuring that those sweaty Beat Saber sessions count toward your overall activity goals.

Want to show off that awesome Beat Saber high score or a sick Superhot sequence you put together? There are a few easy ways to share what you’re up to on your Quest 2.

If you want to take a screenshot, the easiest way is to simply hold the Oculus button on the right Touch controller and squeeze either of the two triggers. When you have a game or app open, you can also press the Oculus button to bring up a handful of sharing options, including Take Photo, Record Video or Cast. And if you just want to capture some content while navigating menus, you can select the pink Sharing icon at the bottom of the home screen for the same three options. Pro tip: If you go to the Files app, you can turn on media syncing so that you can easily view your photos and clips from the Meta Quest app on your phone.

The Quest 2’s included Touch controllers work great for playing games and navigating apps, but you can also sync up other Bluetooth peripherals, including traditional gamepads and even wireless mice and keyboards.

Wireless gamepads (such as the Xbox Wireless Controller or Sony DualSense) won’t work with every game on the Store, but they’re ideal for console-style titles like Chronos and Tetris Effect: Connected. If you’re unsure whether a game will work with your controller or not, just look for “Supports Gamepad” in its Oculus Store listing.

Using a mouse and keyboard on Quest 2 is ideal for browsing the web, navigating the Store or using productivity apps. While it took a bit of trial and error to get things working, we were eventually able to get our Logitech Pop Keys keyboard and Logitech Pop Mouse running smoothly on Quest 2. We even used them to write part of this article from the headset, thanks to Meta’s preinstalled web browser.

While you’re over in that Experimental menu, there are a bunch of other hidden features worth trying out. These include a 120Hz refresh rate mode for smoother navigation and gameplay, voice commands, the ability to switch between light and dark themes and an Air Link feature that lets you connect to a PC without any cables.

Don’t feel like fumbling with the Touch controllers when you just want to browse the Store or watch some Netflix in VR? Fortunately, you can navigate your Quest 2 with just your hands. To enable this, go to Quick Settings > Settings > Hands and Controllers and enable Hand Tracking.

Once Hand Tracking is set up, you can navigate the Quest 2 interface with natural hand motions, and can click on icons with a quick pinch. To access the Oculus and Menu buttons, just open up your left or right hand respectively and face it upward. We personally find Meta’s Hand Tracking controls to be a little finicky, but they get the job done if you just want to do some browsing or fire up a movie without reaching for your controllers.

The Quest 2 plays plenty of great games on its own, but if you have a powerful enough gaming PC, you can connect it to your computer to unlock even higher-end VR experiences.

No matter how you use Oculus Link, you’ll set up everything via the Oculus app for your PC. Note that you’ll need a decently powerful rig — you can find the full requirements here, but the key specs include an Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5 processor or better and a Nvidia GTX 970/AMD 400 series graphics card or better.

Once you’re all set up, you’ll be taken to the Oculus PC menu on your Quest 2, where you can do things like browse the full Oculus Store and even navigate your Windows desktop from your headset. You can also use your Quest 2 with VR PC games outside of the Oculus marketplace, including Half-Life: Alyx and Star Wars: Squadrons.

The Meta Quest 2 makes it easier—and fun enough to be worth it—to give VR a try compared with headsets that require cables and expensive PCs. The Quest 2 has two capable controllers and is compatible with some of our favorite games. It’s also small enough to toss into a tote bag or a backpack, so you can break it out at the office or a party (or could, if you didn’t need to safely distance from others). You can set it up and start playing in less than a minute; thanks to built-in sensors that track the two Touch controllers and your other movements, you can navigate an entire room, and the headset won’t ever lose your location. As a result, we consistently reach for it over headsets that cost two or even five times as much.

By default, the Quest 2 is cordless. Sensors for tracking your head and hands are built into the headset and controllers, which means you can walk around the entirety of a room and your virtual body will do the same. Although a PC headset with more-precise tracking, such as the Valve Index or the HTC Vive Pro 2, can better replicate your movement and avoid reality-breaking glitches, like your hands floating away, we found the Quest 2 convincing enough to cross that initial threshold into “realness.” The ability to play without a cord also means you aren’t pulled out of a game when you inevitably trip on the cable tethering you to a PC.

However, many of the best VR games require a connection to a PC to give the headset additional processing power. We think the Oculus Link cable is a worthy buy for any Quest 2 owner because it allows you to play PC games on the headset, unlocking the full Meta Quest and SteamVR libraries.

The Quest 2’s LCD screen offers 1832×1920 pixels per eye, which made it one of the first headsets that didn’t regularly give us the “screen door effect,” which is a light grid laid over your field of view. The Quest 2 currently has a maximum refresh rate (think of this as the VR way of saying “frames per second”) of 120 Hz, matching the HTC Vive Pro 2 and beating the Quest Pro’s 90 Hz. Higher refresh rates are generally believed to reduce the likelihood that users might experience motion sickness while using a VR headset.

At a claimed 503 grams (1.1 pound), the Quest 2 is a hair heavier than we prefer for our VR headsets (it’s like hanging a half-liter bottle of water from your face). But due to cushy foam padding that rests on your face and adjustable straps that reach around to the back of your head, we found that the Quest 2 is fairly comfortable to wear for hour-long play sessions, though we had to fiddle with the fit to get it to sit correctly. The headset’s strap is a downgrade in quality and comfort from previous Meta headsets. If you care enough to want to change it, you have to shell out $50 extra for the halo-style Elite Strap.

The Quest 2’s Touch controllers, which are similar to the original Rift Touch controllers, are among our favorite styles of VR controllers. The two controllers are molded to sit in your hand, with your pointer fingers resting on triggers and your middle fingers resting on “grip” buttons. Your thumbs can reach a small joystick, plus A, B, and home buttons. Sensors built into the headset track the location of the controllers, so moving your hands physically moves them in VR. The Quest 2’s controllers are intuitive to use and easy to hold for long periods. While Ars Technica reports that the newer controllers are less accurate than those that came with the original Quest, Tested notes that they seem to simply operate in a different way. In practice, we didn’t notice a change in quality between the controllers. The lack of external sensors that a headset like the HTC Vive Pro 2 uses to carefully replicate your hand movements in VR might be missing here, but we found the Quest 2’s controllers still accurate enough to fly through difficult levels of Beat Saber without frustration.

Interestingly, the Quest 2 also gives you the option to ditch the controllers and use just your hands to interact with menus and some games. We found the tracking to be functional, but fairly inaccurate; if you move your hands too far away from the headset, it loses sight of them and you’re no longer in control. You also need to learn a series of gestures, such as pinches and drags, which means the learning curve is just as steep as using the controllers. We think hand tracking has long-term potential for even more natural gameplay, but we didn’t find it intuitive enough to choose over the controllers for now.

The Quest 2 does not have built-in headphones. Instead, it has built-in speakers that direct 3D sound toward your ears. The Quest 2’s audio quality is good enough for immersive VR (and sounds even better than the original Quest), though it isn’t as clear as you’d get with a pair of nice headphones.Thankfully, you can plug in your own headphones (or buy the $50 earbuds that Meta advertises) on either side of it. We do like the open-ear setup in a social setting, where the speakers can clue onlookers in on what the person wearing the headset is seeing.

Meta says that the Quest 2’s battery lasts two to three hours, though we found it fell closer to the two-hour mark. That’s plenty of time for solo play. However, when we’ve used cordless headsets with friends, we have always ended up running out of battery power. You can use the Quest 2 while it’s plugged in, though you won’t be able to move around as much when you’re connected to a cable. We managed to play Beat Saber with the headset plugged in for a while, but we eventually ripped the cord out of the socket.