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PTC v49 Release Megathread

Ryanality's avatar
Ryanality
Retired Support
3 years ago

The Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest and Quest 2 v49 is starting to roll out. Meta Quest Pro is not included in the PTC at this time. Let's use this thread for collecting feedback on it. 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.

 

Thanks to everyone testing out PTC and sharing your feedback! We appreciate your help testing out the core functionality of software as we develop!

This did start rolling out last week, I was out of the office so this post is delayed. My apologies!

Published 3 years ago
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30 Comments

  • Skuva's avatar
    Skuva
    Explorer
    3 years ago

    I have two questions:

    1 - Why are old PTC megathreads still pinned, while the new ones aren't?

    2 - Why does PTC has such limited subscription system?

    It almost feels like you guys don't really want feedback...

    • Ryanality's avatar
      Ryanality
      Retired Support
      3 years ago

      Hi! 
      1. Just an oversight on my part when I published this one, usually when I publish the new thread I make the adjustments to the old one.

      2. There's a lot of folks in the PTC, but I don't know the exact number. They wanted a good representative number of users in there, without flooding the group. The team does check out the total number of users regularly to see if we need to reopen it up to new users.

       

      And we absolutely do want feedback! PTC feedback is extremely helpful and feedback is always a gift!

  • Bart71's avatar
    Bart71
    Member
    3 years ago

    So with this update the 7% gpu speed increase is automatically enabled where with 47 I read you needed to enter standby after starting an app?

  • Sneedger's avatar
    Sneedger
    Protege
    3 years ago

    So now we can rotate the POV even with the home UI opened? What a killer-feature! Just another punch in the face for us bedridden folks which are asking since forever for a way to tilt/rotate POV system-wide (read: in-game). VR should be all about accessibility since its very intrinsic nature but you deliberately decide to ignore this fact, even if it would cost you nothing to implement such feature; and don't tell me it's to avoid motion-sickness or whatever because you obviously could make it an opt-in feature. Keep going the wrong way Meta!

  • nalex66's avatar
    nalex66
    MVP
    3 years ago

    I’ve been getting a weird issue since v49. When I wake the headset, I often spawn far away from the normal home position, way outside of the home environment. It happens even more often in Link. This has been a real nuisance for development—I’m constantly in and out of the headset while working on and testing my Unity app, and many times a day, I launch my game and am immediately falling into the void because I’m outside of the map. When it happens, I have to exit Link and reconnect to get back to the proper home position (recentering myself in Link brings the menu to my location instead of bringing me back to the home position).

  • Qba73's avatar
    Qba73
    Protege
    3 years ago

    When is the Quest pro getting the January update that was promised in November, primarily the wifi6 fix?

  • AlphaEndgame's avatar
    AlphaEndgame
    Explorer
    3 years ago

    Any news on the ability to disable the avatar arms? I want the ghost hands back. I have barely been using my device since the arms were introduced, I just can't deal with them.

  • barabba9174's avatar
    barabba9174
    Protege
    2 years ago

    I hope that from March, with the stop to the updates for the first Quest, PTC option will be released for Quest Pro users.

    Right now we Pro users have invested in innovative technology and we have no way to investigate it.

    So disappointed.

  • tanubon's avatar
    tanubon
    Heroic Explorer
    2 years ago

    I have Abstraction Home, I have "don't disturb", I can move while running menu, but my version & runtime version are 47.0.0.282.341. What?

    • bright90's avatar
      bright90
      Protege
      2 years ago

      Same. I’m confused, seems like I have a partial update but can’t find enough info about this

  • Sneedger's avatar
    Sneedger
    Protege
    2 years ago

    So when are we going to get "laying down mode"? And will it be system-wide (also in-game)?

  • Ryanality's avatar
    Ryanality
    Retired Support
    2 years ago

    Hi everyone, the official release for v49 is starting to roll out now, so I've published the release notes. Not all features will get turned on right away, so if you happen to have v49, but don't see any of the new features mentioned, just wait a few days and check back as you might have the PTC build, but not the official release. 

    • Sneedger's avatar
      Sneedger
      Protege
      2 years ago

      Could you kindly explain further on what "laying down mode" actually is and if it will be available also globally in-game? Thank you

      • Ryanality's avatar
        Ryanality
        Retired Support
        2 years ago

        Hi! There isn't currently a feature for "laying down mode" that was released with v49. If such a feature does get added in the future, we'll be sure to include it in the release notes and let everyone know how it works!

    • bright90's avatar
      bright90
      Protege
      2 years ago

      What is the PTC build? Would this explain why my versioning shows 47.xxx but in other places 49xxxxx? And why I have new virtual backgrounds but not the new do not disturb. Etc…. So confusing 

      • Jay_Ohm's avatar
        Jay_Ohm
        Honored Guest
        2 years ago

        PTC stands for "Public Test Channel", so basically a public beta test before the actual release. Could get cool features early, could also get nasty bugs, you never know. If you can catch a free spot in the program, that is, since it seems to be always full.

        As for when you'll get the official update, not sure where you got your "over 2 weeks since announcement" figure, the release rollout was announced last Tuesday, under 5 days ago at the moment, so we are within the "normal" rollout timeframe for now. Hopefully soon...