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Ryanality
Honored Contributor
July 10, 2023

PTC v56 Release Un-Megathread

Thanks everyone for all your feedback on our previous builds, we several bugs were identified in the last PTC and the solutions for some have shipped, while others are on the way!

The Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest v56 is starting to roll out for Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 soon. 

We're going to try out something new this time around! Instead of a single megathread, we'd like to gather feedback for specific issues in their own separate threads.

For example, if you've installed PTC and there's a sticker of a pink elephant unexpectedly following you around the room, jump on over to our Get Help board and search for "pink elephant PTC" or something like that, if you don't see any existing threads, make a new thread in there, put PTC v56 in the title and something like "Haunted by Pink Elephant", and post it. If you add the Label and Tag PTC it'll help everyone search for just PTC issues too. If anyone else is seeing the same thing, they can find your thread and jump into it to share.

Moderators will also help merge topics that are the same together so keep things consolidated.

It's best if you can post each bug you spot in it's own thread, that way we can all keep track of individual issues separately, and can notify everyone seeing the problem when there's news, or we need to collect details.

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. 

We know it's tough when you run into a problem on a PTC build and want to thank you all again for testing out PTC and sharing your feedback! This feedback is extremely helpful to our engineering teams. We appreciate your interest and persistence in testing out the core functionality of software as we develop!

76 replies

New Participant
July 18, 2023

Where can we find or get notifications when v56.x revision versions are released? i.e. v56.0 v56.1 etc.. 

Participant
July 18, 2023

As long as I have been in the PTC you don’t get notifications of new releases. They just come when they are ready. Your best bet of a notification is in this thread by other members or in the Reddit forums. 

Participant
July 19, 2023

Still incredible lag issue since v54 with airlink. Just unplayable with v54,55,56.

Garbage

Up and Coming
July 19, 2023

Still problems with white artifacting with airlink/link.

Participant
July 19, 2023

g0dmak3r
This could be caused by Mobile ASW. You can disable it in the Oculus Debug Tool located in: C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics

Honored Contributor
July 20, 2023

I just got a v56ptc update earlier today with both my QPro (56.0.0.114.656) and Q2 (56.0.0.115.656).  Tested both out with standalone and PCVR using Air Link (don't bother to use my Link cable anymore).  Tried a few standalone and PCVR titles from the Rift, Steam, and VivePort stores, plus my msfs flight sim and all seems to be working great.   This is with the latest nvidia 536.67 driver with both HAGS and Game Mode off.

I did still notice the odd white pixel sparkle on the right lens but these were very few and far between.  These seem even less than previous updates as far as I can see and don't bother me whatsoever. 

I'm not sure if my Q2 battery management issue (never fully charging to green) is fixed yet.  Its on the charger right now so I guess I'll find out soon, lol!

Edit; Nope, my Q2 headset battery will still only charge up to about 85%.  Oh well, at least when I plug in an external battery it seems to hold that charge level and just draw from the external battery.  While I'm pretty sure this is an Android 12 battery management related issue, I guess it could just be that my +2yo Q2 headset battery, like me, is starting to show its age, lol!  If I contacted Meta Support I'm sure they'd help me out with a refurbished headset.  But, since the Q3 will be coming out soon, and I intend to buy one, it's probably not worth the effort right now.

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
Persvicx
Inspiring
July 20, 2023

Has anyone been noticing that the mirror in the home environment sometimes randomly turns black and stops working until i restart? Also has anybody's face been freezing when looking at the mirror in the home? my eyes completely disappeared from my face once, which is a little spooky. There has been also a weird figure with arms detached (about 1 ft foward from torso) (completely black, void like) after leaving a party when in home with a person? This update has spooked me alot from these bugs, and it doesnt help that sometimes when changing stuff in the menu this loud static plays for about 0.2 seconds and the menu turns black. I'm very scared from this update and i am about to uninstall it. please help (edit: forgot that sometimes i get stuck in a void with notifications and my avatar still there.)

Hi, I'm Aech. Stupid moth and total nerd in VR owning 3 headsets including Meta Quest 2/3 and PSVR2.
Honored Contributor
July 20, 2023

Persvicx  Sounds like your Quest is haunted by the ghost of Oculus Past, lol! 

Actually, since the last few PTC's, starting up in my Quest home (one with a mirror) my controller arms are black or missing and the controllers have a white outline around them.  If I look at the mirror there is a really scary skeleton/ghostly figure staring at me.  This usually only takes about 10-20 seconds to automatically revert to my chosen avatar/arms and the controllers then look normal.  This happens with both my Q2 and QPro, but seems to take a bit longer to fix itself with my QPro.

Also, occasionally when I use Link or Air Link (one I mainly use) and get into the Rift Home void/dashboard the controller/hands do not show up at all.  In those few cases I find I need to exit link, go back to the Quest home and restart Link.  Then they appear again ok.  Again, something that seems to happen with my Pro controllers more than with my Q2 controllers.

Anyway, I think that the best thing to do is to file a bug report (bug-looking icon on your quick menu).  I have done this over the last few PTC updates.  Maybe eventually these minor bugs will get squashed, or in your case, Exorcised, lol!

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
Persvicx
Inspiring
July 21, 2023

TomCgcmfc Another weird issue that i seen with only this PTC, changing the Camera values in the Meta Quest Developer Hub. If you change the camera quality to a 16:9 ratio (or one with a higher fps) it results in a weird RGB colors coming off of objects for 1-3 seconds until it changes normally. One time it got stuck on it, and the RGB colors kept getting bigger, Bigger, AND BIGGER! I held the power button, it showed the meta logo, but with the weird edgy colors, and then BAM! I saw the android shut down prompt on my screen (I have never seen 2d android element overlays while using quest. Looked like this.

It was layered between the two eyes, didnt look correct, and i think it was not meant to be shown. Layered over the meta logo, i could see the borders of the logo.

This is definitely a bug, but I like these types of not seen errors.
Infact, I'm trying to log every hidden app and every error on the quest, its very fun to find

(if you have any screenshots of errors or just weird stuff happening PM me to add to my Mega Quest Error Log)

Hi, I'm Aech. Stupid moth and total nerd in VR owning 3 headsets including Meta Quest 2/3 and PSVR2.
Participant
July 21, 2023

I'm new to the beta test, I understand that the release version of v56 has come out, and I'm now on PTC v56.0.0.115, will my quest2 be updated to the official full v56 or just the next PTC?