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Quest Build 19.0 Release Notes

ShowbizDonkey
Retired Support
Update 7/21/2020: Made slight update to In-App Keyboard note for additional clarity.

These features and enhancements will become available throughout the week of 7/20/20

Friends


Find your Friends

We’ve made it easier for you to find your Facebook friends and connect with them in VR. If you’ve logged in with Facebook on Oculus, you have the option to choose whether people can find you by your Facebook name.

  • Only the audience you choose in your privacy settings will be able to find you by Facebook name.
    • The options for this setting are: anyone, friends only, or only me
  • Your Facebook name privacy setting will default to the option you previously chose for your “Oculus real name,” but you can adjust this setting at any time.
  • For new users, this setting will default to friends only.

Invite your friends

You can now invite your friends to join you in-VR, even if they aren’t currently using their headset.

  • To invite your friends to join you in-VR, launch an app, pause it, and select Invite.
  • Select Invite again if you want to change the invite or send it to new people.
  • Once you leave the app the invitation will expire.

Parties


Public Parties

  • We’re introducing Public Parties to Oculus Quest.
    • A public party is a voice over IP (VOIP) call that can be discovered by people outside of your Oculus friends list. Public parties allow you to explore experiences or play games with people you haven’t met before in-VR.
    • Public parties can support up to 8 people at a time.
  • You can access public parties by selecting Play with Others from your home feed.
  • Learn more about public parties and how they work.

Travel Together

  • Travel Together allows people in a party to travel to an app, and arrive at the same location within the app, together.
  • Apps that support the Travel Together feature will show up under the Play with Others section of your home feed.
  • Travel Together is available for both public and private parties.
  • Learn more about how to use Travel Together with your party.

Party Size

  • Now both public and private parties will be able to support up to 8 people.

  • Please note, some apps have their own party size limits that are less than 8.

Reporting


We’ve made the following improvements to our reporting flow:

  • Improved clarity of messaging
  • Made it easier to attach video to reports
  • Added functionality to review media before moving forward with the report.
  • Added the ability to block the person you’re reporting directly from the reporting flow.

Block List


We’ve added the ability to easily view and modify the list of users that you’ve blocked on Oculus.

  • To access your block list select Settings > Device > Privacy

Controllers


See hands interact with controllers

When you’re using your Touch controllers with your Oculus Quest, you’ll now see a visual representation of your hands interacting with the controllers.



Take a photo with your controller

You can now take a photo in-VR using your touch controller. To do this, press and hold the Oculus button (0) and then press a trigger. Your photos will appear in the camera roll.

Keyboard


Japanese Keyboard Layout

We’ve added a Japanese keyboard option to the Oculus Keyboard.

  • You can change the language of your Oculus Keyboard by selecting the globe icon key.

In-app Keyboard

We’ve enabled app developers to use the Oculus keyboard within their apps for text entry.

  • Please note, this feature is dependent on developers to implement it into their apps. Developers will have access to this feature as part of the upcoming v19 SDK release.

Fixes


  • Fixed a bug causing apps listed under “unknown sources” not to appear.
  • Fixed a bug where some app thumbnails were showing incorrect dates.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the back button in the Oculus store to not function after quitting the app.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the floor boundary for some Stationary Guardians to remain visible.
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dvc2112
Protege

hollmrl said:

I have two Quest Headsets that have been updated to V19.  One headset has the Universal Menu (New Menu) and the other has the Old Original Menu.  In both cases they are locked in their respective  menus with no way to change it in the experimental section or devices section.  A power down reset does not fix the problem.  The menu option is no longer in the experimental section.  I noticed other people are having this problem also, has anyone else found a solution to this?



Some have reported success with certain issues by signing out and back in again (on the headset and/or app).  Maybe that will help?  Hard to say.

christian_kusk
Explorer
Have u found a solutions for this, mine just startet on this crap.
@nalex66
 Edit: My Quest now seems to be forgetting my Guardian after going into standby. I had to redo my Guardian after first rebooting with the new update, then when I just went back in to test something, I had to redo it again. Turned the Quest off and on (standby), and had to redo it again. I cleared my Guardian history and redefined it again, then tried a full reboot--the Guardian persisted through the reboot, but after turning it off to standby and on again, it had yet again lost it. I haven't had this issue with any previous software versions.

Anonymous
Not applicable
@"christian.kusk"  Mine often ( not always ) opens up from boot and prompts me to create a new Guardian but if i just look around for a few seconds it usually kicks in to click continue.
Its like it needs a scan as a little reminder.
🙂

Jogimus
Explorer


@Jogimus
I still think the universal menu is dark though so maybe not completely fixed yet .. Or the update overwrote some iffy files perhaps from V18 but i prefer the default menu if im honest 


Yes, it is now darker than v17 menu I quess but v18 was really dark and blurry, game pics/icons were also very dark(gamma or contrast..) 
Now overall clarity and contrast is ok.

Old/new menu choices in experimental menu are gone after v17..

Anonymous
Not applicable
@Jogimus
This is how it originally looked which was pretty much identical in colour to the main top menu

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Even now as you state its better but still not right 

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tochandayo
Honored Guest
Japanese keyboard layout cannot be displayed

gunn31
Honored Guest
Here are the two most important problems after firmware 19 update !
1. Quest has problem in tracking the controller. I have tried restart the device, changed the batteries, clear history of guardian, unable the hand tracking. So, now I can not play any game with the controllers. The controller became uncontrollable. 
2. When I cast using chromecast, the quest screen is flicking wildly, so bad until I get motion sickness. I have never experienced any problem after upgrade, but I think this firmware 19 is harmful to my device. Can I get refund ?

Anonymous
Not applicable
So strange how its all suddenly gone to pot. So many different results for users ?
Yet apart from perhaps a tech upgrade on newer units they should have pretty much the same results.
However we may be just a tiny amount of users compared to thousands of others have no problems at all.

nalex66
MVP
MVP
My Quest is doing better with remembering my Guardian today, but still no hands showing with controllers (I guess this feature must be rolling out separately from the v19 update).

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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TechZN
Honored Guest

gunn31 said:

Here are the two most important problems after firmware 19 update !
1. Quest has problem in tracking the controller. I have tried restart the device, changed the batteries, clear history of guardian, unable the hand tracking. So, now I can not play any game with the controllers. The controller became uncontrollable. 
2. When I cast using chromecast, the quest screen is flicking wildly, so bad until I get motion sickness. I have never experienced any problem after upgrade, but I think this firmware 19 is harmful to my device. Can I get refund ?



I came here looking to see if there had been a recent software update - I too am having terrible problems with tracking the controller. Any game with fast motion will send my hand spinning into space. I'm going to try the remove batteries thing, but am not confident that will work.