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offbeatkid
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June 5, 2025

v.78 PTC Release Thread

  • June 5, 2025
  • 97 replies
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Hey Everyone,

The Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest v78 started to roll out today for Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S.

If you're seeing an issue or bug after updating to PTC v78:

1) For issues: Go to our Get Help board and search for any existing thread on the issue, if you don't find one, make a new thread. Please add the tag "PTC v78" to the thread and in the title. This way everyone can look for just PTC v78 issues too.

2) For bugs: If you come across a bug, please post each one you spot in its own thread, to keep track of individual issues separately. Please make sure to also send in bug reports along with posting on the forums if you notice anything going wrong.

Share your impressions in the comments below and let us know if you see any issues.

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!

    97 replies

    Up and Coming
    June 16, 2025

    Hi,

    the "wrist buttons" that was in the experimental options is missing, in the v77 and in the v78, I searched if is moved to another menu but I don't find it.

    Please for my developments is mandatory use this option, so could you activate another time or indicate how can i activate in the recent versions?

    Thanks

    New Participant
    June 16, 2025

    Downloaded the newest version of v78. No navigator system installed and still the same old layout. Also get alot of lag and getting kicked out of horizons alot. Also noticed my left controller struggles to let me move forward. Will i get the new navigator system at all??

    Participant
    June 17, 2025

    Your support has ignored me again. Your updates ruined all my modded apps. As for the Move app, you originally promoted the headset as a fitness device and the Move app was part of it, but now it has been removed. Stop scamming people.

    I still have a valid warranty. Give me back my money and take your bricked headset.

    mc4539
    Up and Coming
    June 17, 2025

    At least with the Navigator UI, your Library isn't pushed aside by the extraneous 2D window that appears for immersive apps.

    Participant
    June 18, 2025

    So I have pretty much been in the PTC since it added 120hz support for the Q3. my usage is 99% driving sims. Having read through this thread I had to look up Navigator and while I probably don't have any real use for it, it does look interesting enough to try out. My question tho other posters have seemed to be hit and miss for availablity, is this only accessable via the Touch Controls? I am using hand tracking because I'm just turning on the HMD then turning on Link(wired official cable). I do have the wrist icons on and they work and I keep the HMD in passthrough. 

    So I guess my main question is any user that CAN use it could point me in the direction of how I can try to use it

    Oh quick edit for an easy question. Where are you guys seeing which version is being used? NM answered my own question tho I'm on V77...now that I know...Odd because I had opted out and back in again as I beta test AMD drivers and installed todays and I couldn't get Link to connect so I started with Meta for troubleshooting so just having reinstalled the PTC version I wonder why it's not the latest?

    Thanks

    June 18, 2025

    INSTG8R75  the rollout for everything meta related is as random as a random thing in Randomville. I can confirm that when and if you do get it, it works with both hand tracking and hand gestures and controllers.

    There are copies of the very, very latest build on Basti's firmware repository which may include PTC versions with the navigator. 

    Meta & Kindle Firmware Update Archive

    Participant
    June 18, 2025

    Thanks for the explanation and the unsurprising reasons...I've never attempted any kinda sideloadiing so thanks for the link I will at least bookmark it until I might be brave enough to try.

    Glad to hear it will work with hand tracking I look forward to the day I might actually be able to try "new features" 

    June 18, 2025

    INSTG8R75  this is all you need to do - 

    quantum0300
    Up and Coming
    June 19, 2025

    Anonymous In fact, I don't think so. I checked the firmware resources, and there isn't even the version I updated the day before yesterday. And to my knowledge, even Quest 2 has used navigator.

    Inspiring
    June 19, 2025

    I just don't get it.  I reported a bug multiple times with various versions of 76 and 77 that on Q3, hand tracking stops working if you connect with link, whether you double tap to get into the menu or quit out using a controller, you have to restart the Quest to get hand tracking back. This is abnormal behaviour and didn't exist previously.

     

    What more can I do to report this bug and have it fixed. 

    As a PCVR sim user, I don't need the controllers but sometimes need to get into the menus.