Oculus Quest 2 v40 update brings Messenger encryption and app passwords

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Your Meta Quest 2 VR headset should soon reach a new milestone, as update v40 is steadily rolling out right now.

Once your device has received the upgrade you can expect several new security and accessibility options to become available. This includes selective app restrictions that will help you keep some users from accessing content you don’t want them to.

When v31 of the Quest 2 software was released, Meta gave users the ability to lock their headsets behind a pattern password that they had to draw out. This feature’s now getting a tune-up in this latest update; rather than just locking the whole headset, you can now selectively lock individual apps and games.

As noted in the Meta Quest blog, this will let other headset users only play content that you deem age-appropriate without having to completely lock them out of the headset. Even with this feature on, you may still want to keep an eye on what your kid is playing in VR, and one of the best ways to do that is to cast your Quest 2 to your TV to see what they see in the headset.

Speaking of security, v40 will mean making secure 3DS authorized payments is a bit easier. Before the update hit, you had to use the Oculus mobile app to authorize these kinds of payments from credit cards. Now that authorization will be handled inside the Quest 2 headset.

Note this will only automatically apply to Quest Store purchases, as in-game purchases will require developers to opt in and allow the native authorization.

Continuing on a similar trend, there’s new end-to-end encryption coming to Messenger as part of v40, although this is just for one-on-one chats and is still in the testing phase.  Specifically, Meta says it’s “testing optional end-to-end encryption for Messenger’s one-on-one