Setting up your play area and Guardian

When setting up Guardian, you can chose from these modes:

• Stationary: For using your headset while sitting or standing in place. Stationary Mode creates a default Guardian area of 3 feet by 3 feet (1 meter by 1 meter) centered on yourself.
• Roomscale: For using your headset while moving around inside your play area. Roomscale allows you to draw your Guardian boundaries in your physical space using your Touch controller. We recommend a safe and unobstructed space measuring at least 6.5 feet by 6.5 feet (2 meters by 2 meters).

To switch Guardian modes or redraw your Guardian boundaries:

To manage additional Guardian settings:

The settings you can manage here include:

• Adjust guardian: This puts you back into the guardian setup like you did when you first set up your headset.
• Set floor level: Allows you to adjust the floor level of your Guardian Boundary.
• Boundary color: Changes the color of your Guardian Boundary.
• Double Tap for Passthrough: Enables the ability to double tap the side of your headset to switch to and from passthrough mode.
• Clear Guardian History: Clears Guardian history for all accounts on the headset. This means if you have more than one person’s account on your Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest, Guardian maps and tracking data will be removed from all accounts.
• Glanceable Boundary: When enabled, you can look down at an angle while in-VR to quickly see where you are in your playspace.
• Boundary Sensitivity: Determines how granularly you want to adjust your guardian boundary alerts. There are two options:
  • Simple: You’ll adjust the sensitivity of all of your boundaries collectively with a single slider. Lower sensitivity generally means you won’t be alerted until you get closer to your boundaries.
  • Advanced: You’ll adjust the sensitivity of your boundaries at a more granular level using the following settings:
    • Headset distance sensitivity: Lowering your distance sensitivity means that you won't be alerted until you're closer to the edge of the guardian boundary.
    • Controller distance sensitivity: Lowering your distance sensitivity means that you won't be alerted until you're closer to the edge of the guardian boundary.
    • Headset speed sensitivity: Lowering your speed sensitivity means you'll be alerted less when making fast movements near a boundary edge.
    • Controller speed sensitivity: Lowering your speed sensitivity means you'll be alerted less when making fast movements near a boundary edge.

Space Sense is a safety feature that allows you to see outlines of people, pets, and other objects that cross over the boundaries of your Roomscale Guardian while you’re in VR. Space Sense can show outlines of objects up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) away, provided that they have entered into your playspace.

To turn Space Sense on or off: