Meta’s avatar legs roll out to beta testers, but only in Quest Home

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Screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg’s digital avatar jumping, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicks.
Legs may soon come to the unwashed virtual masses. | Image: Meta

Meta is adding legs to Quest Avatars in Quest Home — but not Horizon Worlds in a new beta announced last week in the Meta Community forums (via UploadVR). Community manager Ryanality posted in the forums that the “Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest v57 is starting to roll out for Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 soon,” though without specifying any new features. Then, yesterday, a forum user named TomCgcmfc reported their avatar had legs.

A post on X (formerly Twitter) from Brad Lynch shows what the legs will look like. For now, beta users can’t see their legs without looking at an in-game mirror, and from the video, it looks like the avatar won’t crouch when the user does so. Although the legs reportedly don’t make an appearance in H…

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