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PTC v56 Release Un-Megathread

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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!

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armax23

Up and Coming

Cassbunny

I had a very similar issue, and turning off Wi-Fi on the headset completely helped me to make tracking work

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jdawg461976

Participant

that is strange as when i disable wifi my controllers completely lose tracking completely

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Anagan79

Inspiring

This is how controllers works 😉 They communicate via Wifi with the headset. Without wifi you just have 3-DOF.

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jdawg461976

Participant

Anagan79 right, that is exactly my point. so how does this guy he fixed his tracking issues by disabling wifi? Fake news?

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Cassbunny

New Participant

armax23 That doesn't make.... any sense.
Im using airlink when this occurs. Pretty sure disabling my wifi would kick me off of being linked.
I kinda need the wifi.

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jdawg461976

Participant

Cassbunny that guy has to be wrong about why he thinks he fixed his controller tracking. now i have jumped to a different SSID which helped my tracking in the past. In fact I think if you only have one SSID and you forget the network which will kick you off, my controllers stay good, but ticking the box to disable wifi makes your controllers just funky.

But yes of course if you are using airlink you need the wifi.

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armax23

Up and Coming

I didn't fix it, better call it a "workaround". Because I agree it's impossible to play with Airlink this way. So I play via Link with cable. It's just a workaround until they fix the problem in the firmware. My problem is that controllers were losing the tracking each minute, they just kept disconnecting and then connecting again until the next minute.

But then I read somewhere in this forum, that turning off Wi-Fi helped one guy to fix the problem with tracking, and it helped me too. With WiFi turned off, controllers work as they should. The problem was introduced only in v56 for me.

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hliow

New Participant

Does anyone know how big is the size of this update? My headset, being charged and connected to internet, had been stuck in the "Updates in progress" screen for 2 hours without finishing updating. Eventually I just canceled the update.

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stixs2000

Up and Coming

When Oculus link is wired, there is a kind of transparent ghosting that moves with my head as I turn, it is very obvious and distracting, video drivers are updated, new link cable from Kiwi , reset the headset, I went online and others were having the same issue in fact one user posted a registry fix stating it is a bug, I applied it , it worked a little but the issue still exists, when I use airlink with the dlink wireless adapter there are no issues, only when the cable is used, that tells me it is not a computer or a usb issue as the adapter is connected to the usb port.