PTC v55 Release Megathread

Noticed an issue with v55 only a little problem but still there never the less still a bug, when you use one of your own backgrounds (even the ones included) on your home screen when look at the menu and move your head from side to side the text blurs, this doesn't happen with the home standard background. Can someone else check this ?

Just a comment me being new to PTC.  I have owned my Q2 since October 2020.  Yet this is the first time I decided to join PTC.  With that said, I feel this is an opportunity to give good feedback to the developers.

Honestly BASHING and complaining about the past or whatever is not constructive.  You should provide good feedback with details and facts.  Not opinion and complaining.  It's how you get focus on the issues rather than making the Dev's read through a bunch of posts making them feel bad over peoples OPINIONS!

I run a team of SW developers and I am telling you good constructive feedback gets attention NOT complaining over and over again with no details.

My 2 cents....

We are getting the flashing pixels/white sparkles on playback of our h265 immersive video footage via a Unity app which we've made for this purpose (which uses exoplayer).

They are exactly as described and shown in this and other forums (sometimes called "rainbow sparkles"), appearing more to the right side of each eye display in a near random but frequent sequence - this started with v53. We have tried every possible combination of encoding options/file types/in-App render settings, and unfortunately nothing fixes it. There are a lot of people complaining about this same problem in the Virtual Desktop discord server (which uses h264 and h265 streaming/decoding), and others are reporting it on reddit with Oculus Link and VD.  The developer of VD ggodin in the discord server has said its an Oculus OS problem since v53 - when people complain he says they have to wait for a fix from Meta (which hasn't seem to have happened with PTC v55, although some report a minor improvement).

I'm really outlining this so Meta knows how many people might be affected by this problem across various apps - it's really disappointing that it was first reported in v53 and yet there is still no fix. Our immersive 7K/8K video footage was playing back beautifully on Quest 2 prior to the  v53 update.

I really hope Meta engineers look into this and make this a priority, as my research indicated this is quite a widespread problem. I'm happy to answer any questions based on our two weeks of researching it - thanks.

OK I am now also getting the random sprinkling of white pixels on both native Q2 games and PCVR.
Never had it before until V55.
It is actually pretty bad especially in dark scenes while moving.  I tried to record in the Q2 video of game play but alas the recorded video does not show the random sprinkling of pixels!

OK Meta developers.  The random flashing pixels that appear in kind of bands mostly on the right side, though I can see them all over but they are predominantly on the right side, I believe are rendering issues and the GPU.  I can recreate them in specific areas of a game consistently.  Not the random pixels consistently but in an area of a game where they will always show up..  For instance, walking from a hallway into a open room.  I can get in a spot that when I move forward, they will always happen every time.  Knowing what I know this is a rendering issue. 
Now that I know I can find them in a game at specific spots where I can test, feel free to contact me and I can test anything you need to track this down.  
Yes this is a issue and it can be quite annoying.  So I can see  what people are complaining about.  I never had this before ever until V54/55....  I will do anything you need me to test including a factory reset if you need.

In all fairness to the complainers and maybe you are not reading, both v54 and v55 have major issues. So even on public release, its a test version. I understand reading posts about people b1tching about testing in the PTC, which i dont like to see either, but everything is a test channel now. we need new features to slow, and fix features to speed up.

PSA:    I had huge wifi cutouts along with white pixels in the right lens.  I did a full factory reset by holding the power and minus buttons.  When it first booted up and after the wlecome prompts. I saw a service that was a help tutorial service that wasn't starting. It asked me to either cancel or wait. I decided to wait. Theory is that the software is trying to start and not being initiated causing the wifi cutouts.  Anyways it worked and I no longer suffer from white pixels nor wifi cutouts. Hopefully this helps others. Also opting out or into PTC isn't the same as a factory reset. Just try it and report. I'm not saying it will fix every ones but it worked for me.  

I'll tell you why there are more bugs in the software than ever ! That is because Meta are cheap and lazy ! They have got over worked Dev's trying to code for 3 different devices (Q2 Pro & Q3) all into the same software instead of having 3 separate development steams with a single core software. This is why someone just found a full demo setup for Q3 room mapping in v55 installed on a Q2 which doesn't even have the hardware needed for this code to work ! I would like to bet that all the current issues people are having are due to code for the Q3 not being fully compatible with the Q2 & Pro's hardware, don't forget the Q3 is meant to have the next gen hardware! 

I had high hopes that my Logithec MX keyboard would switch to French QWERTY Keyboard in the Quest... But no, the keyboard is displayed with US QWERTY keys, even though I've selected the European model. In short, my Quest Pro is still effectively unusable for professional uses requiring text input.