Exactly one month after the Quest 2 was launched, Oculus, clearly not done for the year, released a series of updates to the Quest 2 and its predecessor, the Quest. The company released a v23 software update that includes new features such as app gifting, system-level fitness tracking, and 90Hz support for the Quest 2. The same day the software update was announced, Oculus Link also exited beta, more than a year after it was first announced. The updates are detailed below.

Pico Interactive recently launched a consumer-facing VR headset called the Pico Neo 3. Like its predecessor, the Neo 2 Lite, the headset is available in China only. Perhaps the company felt it wasn’t ready to take on the Quest 2, one of the best standalone headsets around, just yet. Nevertheless, in a country where Oculus headsets are banned, Pico certainly has little competition to deal with.

In an ideal virtual reality experience, we would be able to see, hear, smell, and feel things as we move around the virtual world. We should be able to go wherever we want, provided we can get there on foot. While we can do some of these things with the VR gear currently available on the market,  the VR industry is still quite far from achieving this ideal virtual experience.

Oculus entered the consumer VR market with PC-based headsets, Rift and Rift S. They both have a long cable attached to the headset that you plug into your PC. While this limited users’ movement and broke the immersive experience, the Rift and Rift S had better quality games like Asgard’s Wrath, Lone Echo, and Stormland. In the past, one had to choose between playing better quality games with the Rift or Rift S(or using Oculus Link with Quest headsets) or enjoying more freedom with Quest or Quest 2.