PTC v54 Release Megathread

v53 and v54 COMPLETELY broke Airlink for me (it's always been fine), but now is completely unusable. Got perfect performance before this. On 5GHz network and router right next to my Q2/PC. I really needed to do some work in Substance 3D Modeler, so I'm SO bummed I'll have to wait a whole month to use it until v55 is out and hopefully fixes all of this.

This is an issue I've been having with a change in the way controller tracking being lost has been handled. I wish there was an option to go back to locking in the last known position. It just moves the hands in very uncomfortable spots/positions now and annoys people around me in a VR world while laying down.
Either covers their eyes or my own. Thanks
(edit this issue has been resolved. It was a VRC specific issue. NeosVR does not exhibit the issue.)

took a look at my router after you posted this, funny is i am already on channel 165. my quest pro sees the network fine, joins it just fine, but it drops it and disappears so often is beyond frustrating.

Dynamic bitrate isn't useful to find out if there is improvement because the bitrate can be lowered as much as desired to maintain stability. I was able to use Air Link at H265 200-250Mbps (actual bitrate), but it makes super long transfer time & latency since v53.

I know there have been a lot of issues with wifi 6e, but wifi 6 is solid for me (Quest Pro) Someone pointed out that certain settings in the router can cause issues on wifi 6e ?? I know it seems that not much has changed and to be honest I thought the same until I switch to tablet mode (touch mode?) and that is getting smoother, more refined and better looking this is where I think the devs have been told to focus because of the forth coming Apple headset that is meant to be all hand control ? It looks like Meta is upping its game on this front ! I just wish that you could do multi tablets as that would be just cool for when sitting.

Hello,

Since v54 :

It seems I have way less stutter I had before because of encoder framerate. I did not check if the framerate is stable, I have done my ingame checks and I have almost no more hiccups ! Great, I hope it is an expected fix, everyone can enjoy. FYI In the debug tool, I put h264 and sliced.

BUT I have a new weird bug :

I use the IPD 1, the narrowest.

I have artifacts, pixels white and green on the right side of the left eye. Half a dozen, mostly when I move my head, maybe only when I move nut I am not sure.

Only when I use airlink, when I use Virtual Desktop, I do not have these white pixels. When I use the quest 2 native games and menu, I do not have them. 

What is weird, is I can get rid of them when the quest 2 hud appears !

Two examples :

If I have enough close to guardian, the blue line appears on the floor, the white pixels disappear and everything looks perfect.

When I use the camera to record the session, there is the red dot, if there is the red dot, I have no bug with these white pixels,

first chance i have had to spend a little time on my headset since v54 dropped obviously a few issues so just gonna put them in one post. (using quest 2)

Cons

1. when using oculus button during a game i am finding it loading the apps screen rather than the quit screen

2. Controllers seem to have a little lag at times connecting had to disconnect in app and re-pair them twice they just would not connect on coming out of sleep

3. lying down mode has gone (not happy about that one)

4. Did test skybox briefly on initial update worked ok now option has disappeared from experimental but still shows in personalization but wont work.

5. when quitting games getting just a black screen or stays in the game your quitting and you can hear menus pressing oculus button but nothing else i have to power down headset and restart

Pros

At least we can now use spotify etc,etc as a running background process to listen to music while playing games.

lying down mode has gone

I need him and I'm handicapped  

Pro controllers (using Q2) seem to be connected faster today.  I shutdown and they were right there when it loaded. 

I have had several times now where I could not fully load Audio Trip/Quest 2 game and had to quit and try again. It sounds like it is loading, but nothing appears except what I call the black hole effect - nothing but black all around. Not consistent, but never happened before.

Today I accidentally selected to open Population One and when I quit the game, the black hole effect was in place. I couldn't use any buttons to generate the menu. I had to shutdown the headset to return to the main menu.

When you have the allow updates to be on when shutting the headset down, it shows the same loading updates screen for a while before shutting down. Even if you do it a couple times in a row. I don't think it is really updating that often vs just going through the same visible screen process each time.

my wifi 6e problems are solved as far as i can tell. the fix was reading some guys post with regards to his wifi 6(5ghz) network was losing his controllers pretty often. He suggested to turn off wpa 3 which is optional on wifi 6, but required on wifi 6e, although you can set to open enhanced, which i was reluctant to do as i didnt want it wide open. but the trick was to set the wifi 6e SSID to mac authentication of my quest pro. After doing this, i have not lost connectivity. Its been awesome! try it if you have not.