Oculus quest is useless in dark

[vagos1103gr]

I get the quest for watching mostly movies at night in a dark environment. Unlike the oculus go the quest is unable to work with no lights in my bedroom laying down in the bed. I appreciate the better image from quest than the go but this is serious negative to quest. If they don’t gonna fix in the next weeks prb I am gonna return it back. 

[Anonymous]

I was laying in bed, no lights, watching Netflix last night. Not sure what we did different?

[CrashFu]

This isn't something they can "fix", Quest (and Rift-S, and all WMR headsets) track their position via cameras. Those cameras have to be able to see your environment to work.

(Though I would think the Quest would just revert to 3DoF tracking in the dark?)

If you just want to sit/lay in one spot and watch media, the Go is purpose-built for that.  Plus, you can save your Quest's batteries for game time.
:smile:

[YoLolo69]

Could be a stupid idea but... Can some IR Leds or IR flashlight do the trick without annoying people in the same room?

[Shadowmask72]

Pretty diplomatic response there Crashfu. But you are right. Perhaps there should be a DARK MODE option for just chilling in the dark. That said (and I will test this tonight). You might be able  to illuminate the controllers using a LED reading lamp. I was playing (browsing watching video content) in the dark last night in front of the TV (switched on) without issues.

[vagos1103gr]

Dizzy1007 said:

I was laying in bed, no lights, watching Netflix last night. Not sure what we did different?

I tried many times with no lights and change to passthrough and pop me the message that doesn’t have enough light. I also thought in the dark is gonna change to 3dof tracking. Maybe they gonna fix it in a future firmware? I like much better the quest lens from the go. Is much more clear and comfortable to watch a movie when everybody sleeps and you don’t want to disturb  them. 

[N3XT75]

@Dizzy1007 please explain how you did it? I have the same problem as vagos1103gr. I think it is easily to solve with OS update, because in dark the Quest operates already now like a GO and you can see the movement of head and controller in 3dof. But it show you a tracking warning and just dont let you process to oculus home, because the OS awaits 6dof. Therefore we need beside roomscale and stationary a third seated mode just for movies.

[SkScotchegg]

I have Rift CV1, Oculus GO and now Rift S and I will still only use Oculus GO to watch Netflix in bed.

Why not just use Oculus GO if you have that too?

But yeah you're right, it would be cool if Quest use 3dof in the dark for those situations I suppose. Does the Quest not support that feature currently?

[Pickleschlitz]

They should put an off button for the protection cage and another off button for the camera tracking.

[SkScotchegg]

Pickleschlitz said:

They should put an off button for the protection cage and another off button for the camera tracking.

Yeah maybe they could do something like that with software, perhaps a feature you can enable on an evening to set it to "movie mode" so it knows your in bed or chilling on sofa.