Explore Meta Quest 2 Features

Guardian is a built-in safety feature that lets you set up boundaries in VR that appear when you get too close to the edge of your play area.

If you're setting up Guardian for the first time, follow the instructions you see in your headset. You can also watch the videos below for an overview of setting up Guardian.

Passthrough is a feature that allows you to step outside your view in VR to see a real-time view of your surroundings. Passthrough uses the sensors on your headset to approximate what you would see if you were able to look directly through the front of your headset and into the real world around you. Passthrough comes up automatically when you’re creating or adjusting your Guardian. Apps can also show Passthrough to blend your physical and virtual environment.

Keep in mind, when apps show Passthrough, only you can see it. Apps can’t access images or videos of your real surroundings.

Spatial Anchors are world-locked frames of reference that represent points of interest. They enable developers to build applications where you can place virtual content in physical space that can be persisted between sessions. For example, if you were to place a virtual whiteboard in your space while using a productivity app, the developer can use a Spatial Anchor to remember where you placed it. With this Spatial Anchor, the virtual whiteboard will appear where you left it when you resume the application so you can quickly jump back in.

Apps cannot access raw images or raw videos of your physical environment through Spatial Anchors.

Voice Commands is a feature that allows you to perform different actions using your voice. This can be used for things such as navigating your settings, launching applications and resetting your headset view. Learn more about which commands you can say.

Turn on Voice Commands from the Quick Settings panel or the System tab in Settings to begin using this feature. Once Voice Commands is turned on, double-press on your right controller to initiate a Voice Command.

There are three ways to activate Voice Commands:

• Click the Voice Commands button in Quick Settings panel
• Double press on your right controller
• Use the wake word, "Hey Facebook."

Note: Using the "Hey Facebook" wake word is an opt-in experience available for some Meta Quest 2 users that can be enabled in the Experimental section of your Settings.

• “Who’s online?” “Show me who’s online.”
• “Create a party.” “Start a call.” “Open parties.”
• “Show my profile.” “Open my profile.”
• “Open chats.” “Open messages.”
• “Show me events.”

• “Open library.” "Go to store." "Open search."
• "Open browser." "Go to browser." "Open internet."
• "Open TV." "Go to TV." "Open Oculus TV."
• "Go home." "Exit app."
• “Quit.” “Stop.”
• “Turn off.” “Shut down.” “Power off.”
• “Go to sleep.“
• “Restart.” “Reboot.”
• "Open Settings." "Go to Settings."
• "Go to Wi-Fi." "Open Wi-Fi settings."
• “Open device settings.” “Open quick settings.” “Open experiments.”
• "Change Guardian." "Change floor height." "Change to room scale.
• "Turn up the volume." "Turn down the volume." "It's too loud." "It's too quiet."
• “Turn on passthrough.” “Turn off passthrough.”
• “Reset view.”
• “Show me notifications.”

• App launch: “Open Beat Saber” “Play Netflix.”
• Find free games.” “Find adventure games.” “Find racing games.”
• Open websites: “Open Youtube.com.” “Open Facebook.com.”
• Find videos: “Find 360 videos.” “Show me space videos.”

• "Take a photo."
• "Start recording." "Stop recording."
• "Show me my photos." "Show me the camera roll."
• “Start streaming.” “Stop live stream.”
• “Start casting.” “Stop casting.”

• “How do I check my battery level?”
• “How much storage do I have left?”

• "What’s the weather like today?" "What’s the weather like this afternoon?"
• "What’s the weather like on Nov 5th?"
• "Is it going to be cold at 5 p.m.?"

• "Pause." "Resume." "Stop."
• "Go back." "Previous."
• "Next one." "Next."

• "Enable health tracker."
• "Show activity tracker."
• "Hide calorie tracker."

• "Who is Abraham Lincoln?”
• "What is ten to the power of forty three?”
• "Define the word innovation.”
• "What is 20 Celsius in Fahrenheit?”
• "Who are the members of the Beatles?”

How do I use Voice Dictation on Meta Quest?

To use Voice Dictation instead of typing, select the microphone on your Oculus keyboard. For example, to use Voice Dictation with Oculus Browser:

Providing feedback on Voice Dictation

You have the opportunity to provide feedback on your Voice Dictation experience by selecting “thumbs-up” or “thumbs-down” after you use Voice Dictation. If you select the “thumbs-down,” you’ll have the option to submit the recording and transcription of your last voice dictation.

If you choose to submit them, the recording and transcription will be stored on our servers and a trained reviewer may listen for what went wrong to help make our voice services better for everyone.

Voice Commands and Voice Dictation are two separate services that allow you to use your voice to navigate and control your Oculus device:

• Voice Commands can be used to perform specific actions such as launching an app or navigating to your settings.

• Voice Dictation uses your microphone and speech to type instead of using the keyboard.

We do not store or review recordings or transcripts of dictations you make with the Oculus keyboard unless you submit the recordings to us for feedback or have Oculus Dictation improvements turned on. Because your Voice Dictation recordings and transcripts are not stored by default, you will not see them in your Voice Command activity log.

What are voice interactions?

Voice interactions are the commands and dictations you say, including if you mistakenly invoke our voice services, as well as any background sound that happens when you use those services. Voice Commands and Voice Dictation are two separate services that allow you to use your voice to interact with Meta Quest. Learn more about how to access and use Voice Commands and Voice Dictation.

What information does Meta collect when I use Voice Commands?

When you use Voice Commands through any activation method, we process voice recordings and transcripts of voice interactions, as well as related data such as the hardware version of your device and the length of the audio related to your interaction. Depending on where you use Voice Commands, the microphone may pick up other sounds in the immediate area beyond your voice -- including ambient noise or nearby background conversations.

To help improve Voice Commands, text transcripts and related data about your voice interactions are stored by default.

What you can do with your transcripts:

• View and delete them in Settings.
• Turn off storage in Settings, and still use Voice Commands.

When voice storage for product improvement is on, we use machine learning and trained reviewers to process information to improve, troubleshoot and train our speech models.

You can opt-in to storing your recordings about your voice interactions to improve Voice Commands. When voice recording storage is enabled, audio recordings about your voice interactions are stored to help Voice Commands better understand and fulfill requests. We use machine learning and trained reviewers to process your stored voice recordings to improve Voice Commands. You can turn this off in Settings at any time. Even with storage off, you can still use Voice Commands.

Note that we will record your voice if you unintentionally trigger Voice Commands. If our systems detect that you did not intend to trigger Voice Commands through any activation method, we label these recordings as "false wakes" and delete them from our servers within 90 days of detection.

Your voice recordings could be picked up as background audio in other Meta products and services and would be subject to those terms.

When is my Meta Quest listening for the wake word "Hey Facebook"?

When "Hey Facebook" is enabled, Voice Commands will activate when Meta Quest detects the wake word "Hey Facebook."

Your device may also activate when it detects something that sounds similar to “Hey Facebook.” If our systems detect that you did not intend to trigger Voice Commands through any activation method, we label these recordings as "false wakes" and delete them from our servers within 90 days of detection.

When Meta Quest hears the wake word, it will start to record your voice interaction to respond to your request. You'll know when Voice Commands are activated through a visual confirmation in-VR.

If you choose to enable "Hey Facebook," Meta Quest won't listen for the wake word when your microphone is off, your device is asleep, or your device is off.

How does Meta use my Voice Commands?

We primarily use recordings, transcripts and related data of your Voice Commands to process and carry out your request. Based on your settings, we also use stored recordings and transcripts of your Voice Commands and related data about your voice interactions to help improve Meta’s voice services for everyone. When voice storage for product improvement is on, we use machine learning and trained reviewers to process information to improve, troubleshoot and train our speech models. We protect your privacy by changing the pitch of your voice when Voice Commands are reviewed. All of our employees and vendors must also comply with strict privacy and security requirements in their handling of this information.

How do I manage voice storage and access or delete my voice interactions?

You can access and delete stored transcripts and audio recordings of voice interactions in Settings. Stored voice data which includes audio, transcripts and related data about voice interactions, can be accessed in the Download Your Information (DYI) tool.

You can also view your voice activity in the following places:

• The Voice Activity log in the Account Settings of your Meta Quest mobile app.
• Your headset settings.
• Voice Activity settings on the Meta Quest website.
• The View Your Information Tool in your Privacy Center.

Only users who have not opted out of transcripts and related data storage will have the option to opt in to storing audio recordings of their voice interactions (voice recordings) to improve Voice Commands functionalities.

Even if you turn off storage, you can still use Voice Commands. When storage is turned off:

• We won’t keep recordings or transcripts of your Voice Commands, which means you won't be able to view, hear or delete this information.
• We won’t use those voice commands to improve our voice services and they won’t be reviewed by trained reviewers.
• We still log system activity, such as the timestamp for when a voice command was made and the general category of the voice interaction. For example, if you said, “search for a dinosaur app,” we would simply categorize your command as “search.”

Any Voice Commands made before you turned off storage will still be stored for up to one year, unless you delete them sooner.

Note that if you use voice commands to open websites on Oculus Browser, we will keep a record of your commands, including the URL, unless you turn off Storage. This is true even if you opted out of data collection on Oculus Browser. Visit our Privacy Information page for more information about Oculus Browser processing.

Why does Meta review my Voice Commands?

When storage of your Voice Commands is turned on, we use both machine processes and trained reviewers to process information to improve, troubleshoot, and train our voice services and to help make our voice services get smarter, more accurate and better for everyone. Making sure our voice services can understand and respond to a wide range of speech patterns, phrases, local dialects, and accents is important to us. Trained reviewers are particularly helpful in identifying voice commands that machines are likely to misinterpret.

For example, someone might say "Open Quill," but Voice Commands could interpret what they said as "Open Chrome." Trained reviewers are useful in evaluating how well our voice services execute Voice Commands. For example, we can evaluate if we correctly turned down the volume on your device or pulled up the website you requested based on your command. This helps improve our voice services to respond more accurately over time.

How does Meta protect my privacy during human review?

We have a team of vetted, trained transcription vendors and select employees who assist in reviewing voice commands. All of our employees and vendors must comply with strict privacy and security requirements in their handling of this information. We use controlled and monitored systems to ensure that the vendors and employees who are reviewing voice commands access only the information required to complete voice services training tasks. And we protect your privacy by changing the pitch of your voice when voice commands are reviewed so it's difficult to identify you.

How long does Meta keep my Voice Commands?

If you decide to store your transcripts and related data to improve Voice Commands, your transcripts and related data about your voice interactions will be stored by Meta for up to one year. If you decide to store your voice recordings to improve Voice Commands, the voice recordings are stored by Meta for up to one year. When we delete Voice Commands, they will no longer appear in the View Your Information Tool in your Privacy Center or on your Oculus app, will be deleted from our systems, and will no longer be used as part of our human review or machine learning processes. You can also always delete your Voice Commands in the View Your Information Tool in your Privacy Center or on your Oculus app. You can also turn off Storage of your voice commands in Settings.

Does Meta use my Voice Commands for ads?

We do not use the content of your voice interactions to target ads. This means we do not use the content of Voice Commands such as “Hey Facebook, show me who’s online” as well as other sounds the microphone may pick up in the immediate area beyond your voice, like ambient noise or nearby background conversations.

Some of the resulting actions you take from Voice Commands, like the fact that you opened an app or played a game, may be used to inform the ads you see across Facebook. You can always delete your Voice Commands in the View Your Information Tool in your Privacy Center or on your Oculus app.

What information does Meta collect when I use Voice Dictation?

When you use Voice Dictation, we process a recording and transcript of your voice dictation. Once we complete the dictation (that is, transcribe your voice to text), we delete the voice recording and transcript immediately, unless you choose to provide feedback on your Voice Dictation experience or have Oculus Dictation improvements turned on. Because your voice dictation recordings and transcripts are not stored by default, you will not see them in your Voice Activity log.

If you opt-in to improve Oculus Dictation, we store voice dictation data on your device, and only aggregated modeling information will be shared with Meta to improve dictation for everyone.

To manage your Oculus Dictation improvements settings:

How does Voice Dictation differ from Voice Commands?

Voice Commands and Voice Dictation are two separate services that allow you to use your voice to navigate and control your Meta Quest device.

• You can use Voice Commands by selecting the Voice Commands button in the Quick Actions menu.
• You can use Voice Dictation to use your speech to type, by selecting the microphone on the Oculus keyboard.

We do not store or review recordings or transcripts of dictations you make with the Oculus keyboard unless you submit the recordings to us for feedback or have Oculus Dictation improvements turned on. Because your Voice Dictation recordings and transcripts are not stored by default, you will not see them in your Voice Command activity log.

How can I provide feedback on my Voice Dictation?

You have the opportunity to provide feedback on your Voice Dictation experience by selecting “thumbs-up” or “thumbs-down” after you use Voice Dictation. If you select the “thumbs-down,” you’ll have the option to submit the recording and transcription of your last voice dictation. If you choose to submit them, the recording and transcription will be stored on our servers and a trained reviewer may listen for what went wrong to help make our voice services better for everyone.

You can create an avatar that you can see in some Oculus Store content. All of your devices share the same avatar.

To create an avatar using your Meta Quest 2:

To create an avatar using your Oculus Rift or Rift S:

With Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest, you can adjust your Display Theme between a light or dark theme. This will change the appearance of system features and certain Oculus apps.

To adjust your theme:

With Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest, you can change the default home environment you see in VR when using the universal menu and browsing apps.

To change your virtual environment:

To change your time zone settings:

Night Display is an option that changes your headset display to warmer colors, which may be easier on your eyes.

To turn Night Display on or off:

Raise View is a setting that raises your viewing angle in supported apps.

To turn Raise View on or off: