Accelerate Development and Preview PDP Changes with the Latest Developer Updates

With all the announcements around a more open ecosystem, funding opportunities for games and apps, and a recent partnership with LIV, it can be easy to miss smaller yet significant upgrades helping you achieve more as a developer every day. Your feedback is important to us, and we’re dedicated to incorporating the needs of our developer community into our roadmap to help you create and publish high-quality experiences people love.

That’s why today, we’re excited to put the spotlight on a host of new quality-of-life updates to help you accelerate development and optimize your app’s PDP on Meta Quest. These updates include Cast 2.0, input forwarding, new proximity sensor settings in MQDH, the ability to preview metadata shown on your app’s PDP, multiple Cloud Backup slots, and more. Learn more about the latest features and find links to get started below.

Meta Quest Developer Hub (MQDH) is a desktop companion tool that streamlines app development for Meta Quest headsets.

Cast 2.0 allows you to stream your headset in Full-Res, Widescreen 16:9, or Cinematic 4K and delivers the ability to record video or take screenshots while casting via MQDH. This casting experience provides improved flexibility, performance, and quality compared to the legacy casting features offered in MQDH. Easily share HMD streams, reducing the need for donning and doffing while making collaboration more efficient. Now you can streamline your iteration and testing through an enhanced casting experience. You also have more flexibility and control to create higher-quality content and debug precisely.

Our Metadata PDP Preview feature is now available on the Developer Dashboard. This feature enables you to preview what your app’s listing will look like on the Meta Quest web store, Meta Quest app, and in-headset before you submit your app. Metadata PDP Previews can reduce user ambiguity when putting together your assets and save you additional review time during your app submission.

We’ve also added previews to A/B testing. This enables you to produce higher quality A/B tests by giving you the ability to preview your app’s metadata in the Store first, rather than relying on the Developer Dashboard by itself. You can access your test metadata during both the drafting stage and once the A/B test is running. Learn more about A/B tests here.

Whether you’re developing an app or enjoying your favorite game, there’s nothing quite as frustrating as needing to start over from scratch. With new multiple cloud backup slots, Meta Quest devices now support storing the five most recent cloud backups for each user and device to prevent major disruptions to the user experience.

Previously, only one cloud backup slot was provided for each user and device. In a scenario where app data gets corrupted, this means that a user would have to start over if the system overwrites functional data with corrupted data. Now with five cloud backup slots, users can restore their data to a previously functional state in the instance that app data gets corrupted to save time and preserve a high-quality user experience.

We updated the asset used in the universal menu in-headset from the "Square" asset to the "Icon Asset." The "Square" asset is meant for larger tiles and marketing, while the "Icon" asset is meant for small form factors like the app icons on your phone's home screen. If you want to check your app’s metadata and remind yourself what image you are using for “Square” and “Icon,” you can do so in the Developer Dashboard and make adjustments as needed.

We hope you find these updates valuable, and we look forward to hearing your feedback on how they have helped improve your development process. To get the latest updates, be sure to subscribe to our monthly developer newsletter in your Developer Dashboard settings, and follow us on X and Facebook.