The Oculus Quest 2 is an excellent piece of hardware.
It unlocks the world of VR and frees it from being tied to a powerful gaming PC.
This is fantastic news for gamers and people who want to explore virtual reality.
Its also a critical step in driving adoption for Metas ultimate plan for a Metaverse.
Another crucial point to increasing the chance that any system achieves broad takeup is to make it easily usable.
Generally, the menus in the Quest 2 are simple and easy to navigate.
Still, they can be simplified further, at least to some degree.
One of the key advantages of smart devices and a smart home setup is controlling things with your voice.
Turning the lights on, off, or reducing the brightness with your voice offers increased convenience.
The Quest 2 has a broad range of voice commands that you’re free to use.
For example, suppose youve forgotten how to re-center your display.
As much as they can be helpful, voice commands are entirely disabled by default for privacy reasons.
Enabling them if you want to is relatively simple, though.
There is no timeline for an expanded rollout.
Next, choose the clock to launch the Quick prefs menu.
fire up the Quick configs, then tap on the Voice Commands icon.
Once youve skipped or gone through the introduction, youll have the opportunity to initiate the Controller Shortcut.
The shortcut allows you to activate the voice command functionality by double-tapping the Oculus button.
Which will likely get annoying quickly and defeats the point of simple voice commands.
If you want to, activate the Controller Shortcut.
Suppose you ever want to change this setting later.
At this point, you have the standard voice command experience.
There is, however, another option.
Once there, pick the options cogwheel icon in the top-right corner.
kick off the main controls menu.
you might also listen to the recordings of your recent voice commands via the Oculus app on your phone.
Limitations and Conclusions
Even with voice commands enabled, there are limitations.
You cant control games and other apps with your voice.
Realistically, this is a good thing.
No one wants someone else to buy a game with real money by issuing a voice command nearby.
This will probably change in time, but likely not for a while.
While there are potential privacy issues, the parameters are disabled by default which is nice to see.
What are your thoughts on the Quest 2 voice commands?
Would you use them?
Are there any commands that youd like to be able to use?
Let us know down below.
