Meta Horizon Worlds v157 Release Notes

Meta Horizon Worlds V157 is here! We’re starting to test a new feature called Instant Replay. Imagine that swift escape, spooky jumpscare, or big win is captured in a video for you to share with your friends! We are also rolling out a new early access feature to world creators that can help boost their world's technical performance, and we’ve fixed a few bugs.

Capture the moment with Instant Replay

We’re beginning to test a new feature in some worlds called Instant Replay. When enabled by a world creator, select moments in the world may now be captured automatically and sent to your media gallery for review. Get video of that action-packed, shocking, or spooky experience to share with friends, without disrupting the moment by pausing to open the camera and manually pressing record.

You can see when a world has enabled the Instant Replay feature via the new camera icon on their world page and you’ll also receive an inbox notification upon entering the world.

You can choose to opt-out of using this feature for all worlds by going to Settings > General > Select “Off” for Instant Replay. Note that opting out will simply disable this feature for you in worlds, but it is still possible that you could be captured in another player’s Instant Replay. For more information, check out the Help Center.

Quality of Life Improvements

Creators

• World builders now have access to an optional feature called Frame Budget Boost (currently in Early Access) that can help improve a player’s perception of the world’s performance. While in Early Access, Frame Budget Boost will be enabled by default for all worlds and a percentage of people visiting the world will experience the improved performance. World builders should review the requirements and impact of this feature on their worlds to decide whether to leave Frame Budget Boost enabled or turn it off for select worlds.
  
  To change the default setting:
  1. While in a world, open the Create menu.
  2. Select the World Settings tab.
  3. Select Play Settings in the left menu.
  4. Scroll to Frame Budget Boost (Early Access) and select the applicable option from the dropdown.

Highlighted Bug Fixes

Here are some highlighted bug fixes for this week’s release.

General

• Fixed an issue where the world state would be "frozen" when the headset is put to sleep for several minutes.

Creators

• Fixed an issue where OnPlayerEnterWorld would sometimes not fire when a player entered preview in the editor.

Select Known Issues

Here are some of the known issues the Worlds team is currently investigating.

General

• Gallery media doesn’t load reliably in some cases.
• Triggers are not reliably activated with all parts of the hand.
• Rolling a world back to a previous snapshot while in the editor requires you to exit the app to see the updated world.
• Avatars are not correctly lit by the Dynamic Light Gizmo in preview mode.