Rift S and Rift 1.38 PTC Release Notes

[MetaQuestSupport]

Oculus Home:

• You can now rename your Homes! In the details page for any of your own Homes, there is now an edit icon next to the Home name that will bring up a VR keyboard. Express yourself with a brand new Home name that will be reflected in recommendations, gateways, and friends' Places lists.
• We've made it easier to manage items. You can now easily relocate items directly from the inventory menu to move or reposition them. We've also reduced download sizes for faster item delivery.
• We've polished up the presentation of Homes in our menus to be much faster and more intuitive.

Rift S:

• Updated audio driver to improve Rift S audio quality.
• Updated firmware to reduce occurrence of display issues.
  

If you're using
Oculus Rift S and experiencing black screen and/or cable enumeration issues,
please try opting into the latest PTC (https://support.oculus.com/200468603765391/)
build of the Oculus software. We've included updates that should help.

As always, if you encounter any issues with this software release, please be sure to report them using the Help Center > Provide Feedback option within the Oculus desktop software. If you have any feature requests or suggestions to make the Oculus software even better, please head over to our UserVoice page to share your feedback. Thanks for your continued help!

[MPires]

As far as sound is concerned I noticed at least one improvement. Earlier in the iracing when I played or I climbed a limiter of the track the sound almost disappeared and only reappeared a hundred meters later. After the upgrade the sound remains stable under all conditions. Well done.
I continue to have flashes once in a while, maybe in a lower cadence but I'm not sure.

[morningland]

Dumb question, but how do you update?  I can't find it and I'm still using the old version

[Knutsi]

morningland said:

Dumb question, but how do you update?  I can't find it and I'm still using the old version

Go into settings in the Oculus program and enable public test channel from the beta tab. It will update.

[drunkpacman]

ShocksOculus said:

tomalee said:

abydosan said:

Update done. I went to Beat Saber the sound is better. Not a HQ Hi-Fi, just a mobile phone speaker fine. After one game I went to play Onward. During the start I got a blackscreen super fast. The loud sounds still make blackscreens.

Yeah this is definitely still an issue. It happens whenever the volume is high and a loud noise occurs. Happens in Pavlov if you throw a flashbang near you, for example.

Those might still be STEAM issues.  STEAMVR Beta just released a new beta today with some S fixes, so it might be worth checking out.

Not steamVR happens to games in the oculus store like bigscreen and pokerstars too. 

[abydosan]

drunkpacman said:

ShocksOculus said:

Those might still be STEAM issues.  STEAMVR Beta just released a new beta today with some S fixes, so it might be worth checking out.

Not steamVR happens to games in the oculus store like bigscreen and pokerstars too. 

I can confirm. This is not a Steam issues I experiencing it in Oculus Store apps too.

[rooL-]

I like the new update.. it fixed the cant boot up problem i had with the usb plugged in! (that is just personal) i got the feeling i had less white flashes/statics whatever u call it.. + i believe the controller input got bit better.. in pavlov it felt like u changed something with the hand that is close to the face.. it still gets stuck but something is diffrent right now and it is better! (maybe its just the perfect light outside ;D)

[rickyleung90]

rickyleung90 said:

I just updated everything with Public Test Channel, and now literally everything is broken. Boot up any game and I get black screen within a few seconds. By mashing buttons sometimes the screen comes back for a few seconds and then go black again.

At this point I think I am done trying to fix it. Gonna come back in a few days and see if there are updates.

Changed some USB settings and tightened the cable and everything works now. 

[Anonymous]

I can't enable public test channel in the beta tab. I clicked on the button on the right but it stays gray and nothing happens. 
It is working now.

[Antares]

It fix my issue with audio in google earth !

[CheesyJokster]

Still not fixing things for me. One thing I noticed now is my system thinks I have multiple right handed rift touch controllers along with my actual ones. So while I am playing when the tracking goofs up, I see, in this example, 5 right controlers. Even when I try to remove them, they won't remove. So I decided to removed them from Device Manager which showed two Rift S USB hubs installed and reboot. Will report back on if that helps me or not.



UPDATE: After rebooting the same things were there. So I uninstalled Oculus app, deleted it from Program Files, Programdata, Local appdata, Roaming appdata, and all games then rebooted and installed the application fresh. Weird thing, after I reinstalled it applied the firmware updates again, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Once I got through the initial setup I only see one of each thing now. I will test and update with my results later.