The Guardian boundary is one of the staples of any Oculus Quest experience and, in most cases, an essential 1. Information technology keeps you safe, away from walls and obstacles, and confirms y'all're nevertheless within your desired play area. However, in that location are some niche instances where y'all might want to disable your Guardian boundary. Here's how to do it.

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Some forewarning: disabling your boundary as well disables the headset's positional 6DoF tracking. This ways that when you physically move your caput through space, the virtual world will seem locked to your caput and move effectually with you lot. When the Guardian system and tracking are turned off, the Quest only tracks its position in 3DoF (but like an Oculus Go) instead of the regular 6DoF tracking.

This can be very disconcerting to some people and we recommend you lot only plow off the purlieus in situations where you'll remain stationary.

But why?

In most cases, y'all don't want to disable your Quest's Guardian boundary. Certain situations, however, lend themselves better to 3DoF without a guardian — mainly media consumption.

For instance, the Quest requires a well-lit room to operate the tracking and Guardian systems. If you wanted to sentinel a movie on your Quest in a dimly lit or completely nighttime room, this normally wouldn't be possible. Still, turning your boundary and tracking off volition mean you can sit down in a dark room and watch a picture without worrying about the Quest losing positional tracking.

Disabling tracking and the purlieus is also useful when using the Quest while in bed, or when on a airplane or in a car where turbulence and/or movement might wreak havoc with positional tracking.

Disabling the Guardian and tracking organization

Disabling the Guardian and tracking system on the Quest is fairly simple:

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1. Become to the full settings card on your Quest by clicking Settings and so 'See All' on the lesser menu bar in the Quest Dwelling.

2.Select the Device tab and coil to the bottom.

iii. Turn the Tracking switch off to disable your Guardian boundary and positional tracking.

Your Guardian boundary is now disabled and your Quest's positional tracking is off. While your boundary is off, y'all tin can reset the orientation of the Quest'due south view past property downwards the Oculus button on the bottom of the right bear upon controller.

To turn your Guardian and tracking dorsum on, only navigate back to the same settings card, switch the tracking selection back on and ostend your Guardian boundary.

Disabling the Guardian simply (developer fashion)

If your Quest is in developer mode, you are likewise able to disable the Guardian purlieus by itself, while retaining full 6DoF tracking.

1. Go to the full settings menu on your Quest past clicking Settings and and then 'Run into All' on the bottom menu bar in the Quest Habitation.

2.Select the Developer tab.

3. Turn the Guardian switch off to disable your Guardian boundary, while retaining position 6DoF tracking.

This option won't be bachelor if you oasis't enabled developer mode. If you don't know what developer mode is and want to detect out more, you can read virtually it at the first of our guide to sideloading content on the Oculus Quest.

That'due south everything you lot need to know to disable your Quest's guardian purlieus and positional tracking. If y'all have whatsoever problems or questions, let us know in the comments beneath.

This article was updated on the mean solar day of publication to include instructions on disabling the guardian while retaining positional tracking in developer mode (thank you to Alex Coulombe for the tip).