Quest 3 Passthrough Pausing SteamLink/Apps - Intended Change or Bug?
Hi everyone, 👋 I've been using my Quest 3 since early 2024 for both gaming 🎮 and work 💼. I got very used to a specific workflow with SteamLink: I could activate Passthrough, walk over to my PC to do something quickly, and the connection would stay active. I could still hear my friends on Discord, and the game would continue running in the background, tracking my position. It was an incredibly useful feature! ✨ However, after a recent break from VR, I've noticed a major change. Now, whenever I enable Passthrough, the entire SteamLink session pauses completely. ⏸️ No audio comes through, SteamVR reports that the headset is disconnected (sometimes even going into standby if I take too long), and my in-game avatar freezes in place. My first thought was, "This must be a SteamLink issue!" But after testing several other PC VR and Quest apps (for both work and gaming), I found the exact same pausing behavior happens with all of them. This makes me think it's a change in the Quest's OS itself. I've done some research but can't find any official mention of this behavior ever being a feature. So now I'm wondering if I was benefiting from an "It's a feature, not a bug™" type of bug that has now been 'fixed'. 🤔 So, my questions for the community are: - Can anyone else confirm this change in behavior? Was having apps run in the background during Passthrough the intended functionality before? - If this was an intended feature that got removed, is there any way to re-enable it? It was incredibly helpful. 🙏 - If this was never an intended feature, I'd like to formally request that the developers consider adding this as an optional setting! Thanks for any help you can provide, and have a great day! 😊
Essential feature
Hi Meta-team, I work in sales and came up with the idea to develop software that allows a salesperson to select videos and then remove the headset and place it on their customer's head. However, with the new update, there is no permanent way to turn off all notifications. The only options currently available are to turn off notifications for 1 hour, 2 hours, or until midnight, with no other choices. I plan to have other salespeople use the software as well, and for them, it needs to be as simple as possible. They shouldn't have to disable notifications every time they use the headset. It seems logical to me that there should be an option to turn off ALL notifications permanently. Whenever one of my salespeople removes the headset and puts it on a customer, there's always a risk of a notification appearing, which is not acceptable. The customer should only be able to view the selected VR videos without seeing any irrelevant notifications. I would really appreciate a feature that allows all notifications to be turned off, even if this is only possible in developer mode. There simply needs to be a way to achieve this. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Keyboard Usage
Hi- (Sorry if not in the right category). But I was really excited to use the Rift as a tool to help facilitate my work day. I basically use a computer all day, with many excel sheets, webex, outlook, skype (phone & business). This requires a lot of use with a keyboard and mouse. Is there a good keyboard/mouse available for VR or coming down the pipeline that might help facilitate this type of usage? Thanks!
