Use Natural Facial Expressions on Meta Quest Pro

What it is

With Meta Quest Pro, we’ve introduced Natural Facial Expressions. This feature is used to make your avatar’s expressions look more natural in the virtual world by detecting your facial movements and mirroring them in your headset.

Natural Facial Expressions isn’t used to identify you. If you choose to enable this feature, your headset will analyze images of your face in real time to produce a set of numbers that represent estimates of where you’re looking in your headset and your facial movement.

Images your Meta Quest Pro captures of your face never leave your headset and are deleted after processing. This means that neither Meta nor third-party apps will have access to these images.

Check out our Natural Facial Expressions Privacy Notice to learn more.

What it does

Avatar facial expressions

If you choose to turn on Natural Facial Expressions, your headset will analyze images of your face in real time to produce a set of numbers that represent estimates of where you’re looking in your headset and your facial movement.

How to opt in or out

Natural Facial Expressions is off by default – you choose whether to turn it on.

In the Meta Horizon Store, we’ll indicate which apps offer the Natural Facial Movements feature, so you know before downloading them. The first time you open an app that supports this feature, you’ll be asked whether you want to turn it on, even if you’ve already enabled it on your headset. You’ll always be able to turn them off if you change your mind.

We’ve also made it easy for you to pause this feature at any time from the Quick Settings menu so that when you un-pause, you won’t have to go through setup again. All sensors on your Meta Quest Pro, including cameras and microphone, turn off automatically when your headset enters sleep mode.

If you’d like to use Natural Facial Expressions you can opt in or out via Settings.

For your Meta Quest Pro

To enable Natural Facial Expressions for your Meta Quest Pro headset:

1. Navigate to Settings in your headset.
2. Select Movement tracking.
3. Select Natural Facial Expressions.
4. Toggle Natural Facial Expressions on to enable.

You can disable Natural Facial Expressions at any time by toggling the feature off across the device and all apps in Settings. You can also temporarily pause Natural Facial Expressions across the device and all apps in Quick Settings at any time.

For individual apps

You also control which apps can access your Natural Facial Expressions data.

To enable or disable Natural Facial Expressions for a specific app:

1. Navigate to Settings in your headset.
2. Select Apps.
3. Select Installed apps.
4. After selecting the relevant app, select Permissions.
5. Toggle Natural Facial Expressions on or off.

Keep in mind, if Natural Facial Expressions is not enabled for the device, it cannot be enabled for any app. You can also temporarily pause Natural Facial Expressions across the device and all apps in Quick Settings anytime.

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