As part of the v57 software update for Meta Quest headsets, the company announced Monday a bevy of new features that include more avatar customization options, an unsend message feature, group links, free-form locomotion ability in Horizon Home, and a rebranded Explore feed. Meta also improved video recording, multitasking, among many more.

From today, the v57 update is going out to Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 headsets. Of course, Meta is expected to reveal more about what this brings at its Connect event later in the month.

As part of today's announcement, Meta wrote in the release notes for v57 that it is disabling a casting feature from the iOS app that let users capture the VR experience on their iPhone.

In the revamped update, the avatar creator now comes with colour sliders so that users will have the ability to give the different customizations to their skin tone, hair, or even eyebrow colour. This is a great addition because users can actually specify what they really want exactly, and from this, they can more accurately represent what they look like in real life. Meta added more makeup and face paint options to the mix as well.

Among these, the new body shapes, new hair textures, and clothing textures, to name some recent improvements to Meta's avatar creator, one of the most interesting is when avatars finally were given legs — albeit a feature that's still in beta.

Meta avatars finally receive the long overdue legs in beta.

Also, users can recall image messages when one is in VR and the Meta Quest mobile app. To recall a message, hover over it and click on "recall message." The sender and recipient will receive a notification that the message has been recalled. This feature is available for the U.S., Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan.

Minor updates include launching of group links that allow users to invite friends to join their groups easily by producing a link and sharing it in either VR or messaging into a platform like Instagram or Facebook.

Moreover, almost meeting with friends will become simpler because users can now invite a group to an app from the People tab. The invite will be posted in the group chat so it's visible to everyone and anyone can participate. In addition, instead of showing up hidden in the People tab, the contacts list will automatically open when the headset is turned on.

Horizon Home, where users see each other's virtual homes, is also getting a critical feature. Aside from teleporting in VR apps, users can now move freely within Home, which lets users "explore every nook and cranny of their Home environment," Meta wrote. To make free-form locomotion possible, users have to press the controller thumbstick forward while pointing at a location in the Home to teleport.

Facebook said in a blog post that the Explore feed, or the landing surface that suggests apps, will now be known as Horizon Feed, which may be consistent with its branding of Horizon Worlds.

Among other minor updates, the new default choice to mute microphone audio while recording video and support for using multiple apps simultaneously and switching views are included. Meta also disabled a boundary alert in some apps with mixed reality experiences so users are not interrupted.