Set up your boundary for Meta Quest
Boundary is a built-in safety feature that lets you set up virtual walls that appear when you get too close to the edge of your play area.
Boundary modes
When setting up a boundary, you can chose from these modes:
- Stationary: For using your headset while sitting or standing in place. Stationary Mode creates a default boundary 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 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).
Adjust your boundary
To adjust your boundary modes or redraw your boundary:
- Press
Meta button /
Oculus button on your right controller to open the universal menu.
- Select the clock on the left side of the universal menu to open Quick settings.
- Select
Settings in the top right, then select
Environment setup.
- Select Boundary, then select Adjust boundary.
- From here, you can draw a roomscale boundary or adjust your stationary boundary.
Manage boundary settings
To manage boundary history:
- Press
- Select the clock on the left side of the universal menu to open Quick settings.
- Select
- Select Boundary.
- From here, you can clear your previous boundary or create a new one.
The settings you can manage here include:
- Adjust boundary: This puts you back into the boundary setup like you did when you first set up your headset.
- Set floor level: Allows you to adjust the floor level of your boundary.
- Boundary color: Changes the color of your boundary.
- Double Tap for Passthrough: Enables the ability to double tap the side of your headset to switch to and from passthrough mode.
- Clear Boundary History: Clears all boundary anchors on device and the cloud for the current account. This action does not clear scenes, tracking or maps.
- Glanceable Boundary: When enabled, you can look down at an angle while on Meta Quest to quickly see where you are in your playspace.
- Boundary Sensitivity: Determines how granularly you want to adjust your 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 boundary.
- Controller distance sensitivity: Lowering your distance sensitivity means that you won't be alerted until you're closer to the edge of the 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.
Manage scene and physical space history
To manage scene history:
- Press
- Select Library then select Settings.
- Select
- Select Clear next to Manage your spaces.
To clear your physical space history:
- Press
- Select Library then select Settings.
- Select Privacy and Safety then select Device Permissions.
- Select Clear next to Clear physical space history.
Boundary logic
Boundary is designed to minimize the amount of time setting it up. It does this by automatically creating a Stationary boundary as you enter your VR experiences. If you ever change your boundary to a Roomscale boundary, we’ll save that preference: one for your VR Home, and a separate preference for your VR apps. This feature exists so that you can have flexibility between their VR apps and VR home boundaries. Floor height will be set every time the boundary is autocreated.
There is a boundary preference (Roomscale or Stationary) when you re-enter immersive Home or immersive apps. This preference can change or be updated in Quick Settings or Settings in Boundary Setup.
The boundary preferences include:
- VR Home: Default preference is Stationary boundary.
- VR apps: The first time you enter an immersive app you will be prompted to create a boundary (Stationary or Roomscale).
What if I can’t play a game because I am in a Stationary boundary?
When you are in a Stationary boundary and want to switch to Roomscale to increase your play area, follow these steps within the app you want to change the boundary in:
- Press
- Select the clock on the left side of the universal menu to open Quick settings.
- Select Boundary then select Switch to Roomscale.
- From here, you can draw a Roomscale boundary or adjust your Stationary boundary.
Your boundary preference won't change if:
- You are not within the app where you want to change your app boundary preference.
- You’ve toggled on passthrough. This will not affect boundary in VR homes or VR apps.