In order to take full advantage of the higher refresh rate, applications themselves need to be able to run at 120 FPS, which is no small task, especially on a mobile chipset. The headset’s display is ostensibly already capable of a 120Hz refresh rate, but running it that fast raises concerns about performance and battery life.
A faster refresh rate makes the virtual world inside the headset smoother, more comfortable, and more immersive.ĭuring a Q&A session on Instagram, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, the VP of Facebook Reality Labs, responded with a literal ‘thumbs up’ to a question about whether Quest 2 would see an update to 120Hz. Original Article (February 12th, 2021): Facebook originally launched Oculus Quest 2 with a default 72Hz refresh rate and ‘experimental’ support for 90Hz, which has since become the new default. 120Hz Refresh Rate Likely Coming to Quest 2 The original article which first highlighted the 120Hz tease, and some other Quest news from the VP of Facebook Reality Labs, continues below. If all goes well, the feature will eventually become enabled by default, allowing apps to run at 120Hz if desired by developers. Oculus plans to first introduce it as an “experimental” feature which users will be able to op-into. The company added the feature to its developer roadmap, according to a tipster Ilja Z from Twitter, with an initial release expected this month. Update (March 1st, 2021): Oculus has confirmed that Quest 2 will get a 120Hz refresh rate update. As a reminder, Q2 spans April 1st – June 30th. The level of confidence of this happening is admittedly marked as “LOW”, so it’s possible we may be seeing further delays down the line. Update (March 8th, 2021): In a Quest platform roadmap, Facebook has stated that experimental support for 120Hz refresh on Quest 2 is headed sometime in Q2 2021. Unfortunately it’s not heading into beta this month as previously announced.
After teasing last month that Quest 2 could get an update to enable a 120Hz refresh rate, Oculus confirmed the feature is on the way.