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Ryanality
Ryanality
Honored Contributor
January 17, 2023

PTC v49 Release Megathread

The Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest and Quest 2 v49 is starting to roll out. Meta Quest Pro is not included in the PTC at this time. Let's use this thread for collecting feedback on it. Share your impressions and let us know if you see any issues. Please make sure to also send in bug reports along with posting here if you notice anything going wrong.

 

Thanks to everyone testing out PTC and sharing your feedback! We appreciate your help testing out the core functionality of software as we develop!

This did start rolling out last week, I was out of the office so this post is delayed. My apologies!

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    Skuva
    Participant
    January 19, 2023

    I have two questions:

    1 - Why are old PTC megathreads still pinned, while the new ones aren't?

    2 - Why does PTC has such limited subscription system?

    It almost feels like you guys don't really want feedback...

      Ryanality
      RyanalityAuthor
      Honored Contributor
      January 19, 2023

      Hi! 
      1. Just an oversight on my part when I published this one, usually when I publish the new thread I make the adjustments to the old one.

      2. There's a lot of folks in the PTC, but I don't know the exact number. They wanted a good representative number of users in there, without flooding the group. The team does check out the total number of users regularly to see if we need to reopen it up to new users.

       

      And we absolutely do want feedback! PTC feedback is extremely helpful and feedback is always a gift!

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        Bart71
        New Participant
        January 19, 2023

        So with this update the 7% gpu speed increase is automatically enabled where with 47 I read you needed to enter standby after starting an app?

          Sneedger
          Participant
          January 20, 2023

          So now we can rotate the POV even with the home UI opened? What a killer-feature! Just another punch in the face for us bedridden folks which are asking since forever for a way to tilt/rotate POV system-wide (read: in-game). VR should be all about accessibility since its very intrinsic nature but you deliberately decide to ignore this fact, even if it would cost you nothing to implement such feature; and don't tell me it's to avoid motion-sickness or whatever because you obviously could make it an opt-in feature. Keep going the wrong way Meta!

            CrimsonSky3000
            Participant
            January 20, 2023

            Hopefully laying down feature should be coming soon going by this tweet.

             

            https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1611538268373520385

              Sneedger
              Participant
              January 20, 2023

              Let's just hope they don't screw it up like "only for home environments®" or whatnot

                nalex66
                nalex66
                Honored Contributor
                January 20, 2023

                I’ve been getting a weird issue since v49. When I wake the headset, I often spawn far away from the normal home position, way outside of the home environment. It happens even more often in Link. This has been a real nuisance for development—I’m constantly in and out of the headset while working on and testing my Unity app, and many times a day, I launch my game and am immediately falling into the void because I’m outside of the map. When it happens, I have to exit Link and reconnect to get back to the proper home position (recentering myself in Link brings the menu to my location instead of bringing me back to the home position).

                DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3. Try my game: Cyclops Island Demo
                  Qba73
                  Participant
                  January 20, 2023

                  When is the Quest pro getting the January update that was promised in November, primarily the wifi6 fix?

                  I9 13900k @ 6.0ghz AC (water), Asus Z690 Apex, 64gb gskill 5800 DDR5, Aorus 4090 Waterforce @ 3ghz
                    AlphaEndgame
                    Participant
                    January 21, 2023

                    Any news on the ability to disable the avatar arms? I want the ghost hands back. I have barely been using my device since the arms were introduced, I just can't deal with them.

                      barabba9174
                      barabba9174
                      Up and Coming
                      January 23, 2023

                      I hope that from March, with the stop to the updates for the first Quest, PTC option will be released for Quest Pro users.

                      Right now we Pro users have invested in innovative technology and we have no way to investigate it.

                      So disappointed.

                        Ggizzle1k
                        Up and Coming
                        March 14, 2023

                        Call Rick IDs

                        tanubon
                        Inspiring
                        January 23, 2023

                        I have Abstraction Home, I have "don't disturb", I can move while running menu, but my version & runtime version are 47.0.0.282.341. What?

                          bright90
                          Participant
                          January 27, 2023

                          Same. I’m confused, seems like I have a partial update but can’t find enough info about this

                            Sneedger
                            Participant
                            January 23, 2023

                            So when are we going to get "laying down mode"? And will it be system-wide (also in-game)?

                              Ryanality
                              RyanalityAuthor
                              Honored Contributor
                              January 24, 2023

                              Hi everyone, the official release for v49 is starting to roll out now, so I've published the release notes. Not all features will get turned on right away, so if you happen to have v49, but don't see any of the new features mentioned, just wait a few days and check back as you might have the PTC build, but not the official release. 

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                                Sneedger
                                Participant
                                January 24, 2023

                                Could you kindly explain further on what "laying down mode" actually is and if it will be available also globally in-game? Thank you

                                  Ryanality
                                  RyanalityAuthor
                                  Honored Contributor
                                  January 25, 2023

                                  Hi! There isn't currently a feature for "laying down mode" that was released with v49. If such a feature does get added in the future, we'll be sure to include it in the release notes and let everyone know how it works!

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