Quest headsets now work higher when you do not have an web connection.
VR fanatic Luna has seen that Horizon OS v69 now caches app icons for the app Library. Additionally they report the OS now darkens the icons of apps which require an web connection to work, letting you see which you’ll at the moment use. Trying to launch such an online-only app brings you to the listing of close by Wi-Fi networks.
This appears to be rolling out alongside v69.
Icons are cached slightly than clean and apps that require an lively connection are grayed out. https://t.co/lHXLg2T57I pic.twitter.com/rM75LTFtsJ
— Luna (@Lunayian) September 29, 2024
Beforehand, the OS would at all times try to load the icons from the web, exhibiting a clean gray placeholder if no connection was accessible. Whilst you may nonetheless launch the apps, you would not see their icon.
App icon caching is a rudimentary function of just about each different OS on the market, so Quest house owners will probably be blissful to see it arrive on their headsets.
The advance comes six months in any case internet-connected Quest headsets stopped working for round an hour, after which the corporate vowed to make them “extra resilient”. And all these enhancements are a part of a wider effort at Meta to show Horizon OS right into a viable normal computing platform, widening the scope of Quest headsets from gaming units to non-public computer systems.
