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Meta is adding legs to Quest Avatars<\/a> in Quest Home \u2014 but not Horizon Worlds <\/em>\u2014 <\/em>in a new beta announced last week in the Meta Community forums (via UploadVR<\/em><\/a>). Community manager Ryanality posted in the forums that the \u201cPublic Test Channel (PTC) for Quest v57 is starting to roll out for Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 soon,\u201d though without specifying any new features. Then, yesterday, a forum user named TomCgcmfc reported their avatar had legs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Users in the Meta Community forum also reported updated menus that allow hand tracking to position and use them (rather than needing direct manipulation). On Reddit, one user claimed to see improvements<\/a> to both hand tracking and auto-switching between controllers and hands. NyaVR on X posted that they found code references to new settings, including an extended battery mode<\/a> (via Mixed Reality News<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s been more than 10 months since Meta announced legs would be coming<\/a>, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying at Meta Connect that legs are \u201cprobably the most requested feature.\u201d Zuckerberg said then that the company would need to use an AI model for leg movement because tracking them with the headset\u2019s cameras is tricky. Tricky enough, apparently, that the legs shown in the Connect keynote last year may have actually been prerecorded motion capture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n