I was notified about the update late last night, but you need 80% battery before it will install (which is a nice feature, my phone once ran out of battery during a particularly grueling Android update!) so I charged it overnight and installed the update this morning.
Everything went smoothly with the update, and then my apps all updated as well, no problems there. So, the new features...
Wifi
This was off by default. You can access the settings on your watch by scrolling down on the screen, then swiping left till you get to them. Scroll down until you find "Wi-Fi settings" and click on it. You can add networks, but it will always open up Android Wear on your phone in order to enter the network security key. This is a seamless process, and I quickly added my home network. Obviously this will only work on devices that have the physical wifi hardware, but my Moto 360 does. If you go into the phone app settings, there's also an extra option for "Cloud sync" now (assuming you've updated the app as well) which will now sync data between your watch and phone via the wifi - I found this was on by default.
Gestures
This was also off by default. You can access the settings in the same way as above - this time you're looking for "Wrist gestures". This is a simple ON/OFF toggle, so click to switch it on. You'll then get a few tutorial notifications, guiding you through. It's really simple though, you flick your wrist away quickly then turn your wrist slowly back towards you to scroll down through notifications, and you turn your wrist away slowly then flick your wrist quickly back towards you to scroll up.
There's more to the update as well, but these are my favourite new features.
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