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 alsosend in bug reportsalong 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!
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!
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!
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).
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.
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.
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!
I need this update urgently for my Quest 2, as on v47 the Quest Pro Controllers are not working. The initial update after pairing the controllers is stuck on 0%. I can't use the new controllers at all, they do not work on v47
@Ryanality Any chance you can add my Quest 2 Serial number (on my Meta account) to the PTC ? I can not sign up myself from within the Meta Android App.
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
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...
to be clear, I said ‘over a week’, not two weeks. So the math is simple, release day was the 19th, I wrote that on the 27th. But whatever. Many people with useless pro controllers who have gone thru hoops with meta ‘support’ (who do not seem to have much info at all) trying to get things working, and somehow it seems like some kind of Herculean task to roll out an update…
Oh. It seems I can't read, oops... And yeah, upon further inspection, 19th was the day, so a bit over a week. I was going off this post in the current thread, which was made on tuesday.
I have two things I would like to see addressed. The first issue is that I am unable to turn off AA while in the Oculus dashboard. I can select the option while receiving audio feedback but the setting remains on.
The second is the seemingly quiet lack of support for my system components. I get the "Your computer doesn't meet the updated minimum specifications" banner at the top of the window each time I open.
Not sure if these two issues could cause this but I have experienced numerous disconnects from the headset while wired that look like the software freezing in game. Hitting the oculus button and disconnecting from link then reconnecting will resolve the issue.
I got a Vega56 AMD Card and the latest drivers for that.
When I open Airlink, doesn't matter if set to dynamic bitrate or static, the video feed starts to glet blocky and artifacty every few minutes. As if the encoder bitrate starts to drop.
When I went out of the Beta mode and got V47.1 back on my computer the issues went away.
Now that V49 is properly out I again have the issues because the App autoupdated.
Is there a way to download an older version of the Desktop Client? Also could you please fix this ?
Hey there, @Sero1376! We can definitely understand your concerns regarding these display issues that you're experiencing, and we'd love to help out! We'll want to review your logs which we can't do through the forums here, so please reach out to us through our support site! We'll do everything we can to help out!
I got PC App (PTC) Version 50.0.0.137.257 now. Stuttering problem since v46 was solved. It's good. But wait, home button on Dash was gone, auto home launch option in PC app was gone. 🤔