The meta headset borkdate thread.

drakulton

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Well, it seems that meta are rolling out enough borkdates for them to get a thread of their own.
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The latest has been numerous reports of an update, probably V72 stalling at the updating chip logo, attempting to restart with the meta logo and then shutting down completely.
The headset then becomes totally unresponsive to any button presses, and now is unable to be charged as there's also no indication from any of the LEDs on the headset.

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Updating the system to version 72.0 has caused my Quest 2 to be unable to turn on and unable to be c

After the update, the VR went black. When turning it on, it showed the LOGO and a computer chip with a green progress bar. Now it can't be turned on, can't be charged, and the indicator light doesn't come on. All of these are caused by this update. Is it broken? Why is there such a big bug? Can...
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I've had pcvr issues, and now meta services not showing over past 2 weeks
PCVR issues were resolved using the debug tool (it had reset)
I'm still trying to resolve the meta services (horizon/store/library) issue
 
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Honestly I do wonder why Meta seems to be hit and miss in things like these these. I had to contact their support yesterday, I was online chatting to a person within a few minutes and had my issue resolved within 15 minutes.
 
Tykey said:
Honestly I do wonder why Meta seems to be hit and miss in things like these these. I had to contact their support yesterday, I was online chatting to a person within a few minutes and had my issue resolved within 15 minutes.
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Unfortunately the whole concept seems a little flawed. VR is mostly an enthusiast hobby. If you make it cheap enough for every man and his dog to get little jonny a VR for christmas, it's just got to work 100% all of the time. link/airlink are just not that reliable. I would guess that we've all had issues with it at some time or other.
It needs to be way more robust and plug and play. Most people do not have the time or inclination to be diagnosing connection issues.
 
drakulton said:
Unfortunately the whole concept seems a little flawed. VR is mostly an enthusiast hobby. If you make it cheap enough for every man and his dog to get little jonny a VR for christmas, it's just got to work 100% all of the time. link/airlink are just not that reliable. I would guess that we've all had issues with it at some time or other.
It needs to be way more robust and plug and play. Most people do not have the time or inclination to be diagnosing connection issues.
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I think the day will come when ease of use will be much better, tbf to Meta their headsets are 1 of the most user friendly which I know is a low bar anyway having owned headsets like old Pimax's. I remember years ago pc gaming was largely the domain of tech nerds who knew their way around DOS but things got easier eventually, I think VR/MR will too.
 
I’ve had a DK2, CV1, Rift S and now a Pro. Have to say that they’ve been very reliable. I had a technical fault with the CV1, which was resolved under warranty, with no quibbles. So really can’t complain.

It’s one reason why I was happy to buy the Q Pro and deliberately avoid a Pimax
 
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Another update making controllers only working in the menu and not in games.

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Games not working with controllers

So I pulled out my meta quest 2 headset today and tried playing a game. When I loaded in it was not tracking my controllers. But my controllers were working in the home-screen.I tried restarting my game and everything but it did not work. This is happen with every game and I don’t know what to...
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Its pretty poor timing with xmas jus round the corner and so many quests 3/3s being presents.
not to mention more people being off for break to try and enjoy VR
 
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Its pretty poor timing with xmas jus round the corner and so many quests 3/3s being presents.
not to mention more people being off for break to try and enjoy VR
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Yep - step son and I have a 3S sat in boxes. Hoping they weren’t sold with ***** versions of software on them.
 
I believe mine went to v72 overnight.

It 'works', except that I can't load into any of my race sims now (AC/ACC/AMS2). It either locks up or black screens when getting into the car FFS...
Does it with oculus or openXR runtimes.

ED: May be sorted after headset reboot.
ED2: Nope. Still ****ed.
 
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I checked my lads. It’s on 71 and says 72 ready to install. I’ve disabled auto update once I saw that. So think I was lucky.

Still says it will install from Jan 18th currently.
 
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I checked my lads. It’s on 71 and says 72 ready to install. I’ve disabled auto update once I saw that. So think I was lucky.

Still says it will install from Jan 18th currently.
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Depending of what games he plays or social features he uses, you could turn the headset wifi off/forget so there's no chance of an untimely death until a fix is kicked out.
 
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Depending of what games he plays or social features he uses, you could turn the headset wifi off/forget so there's no chance of an untimely death until a fix is kicked out.
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Is this a wide spread issue. Not really seeing much about it? Is there a forum of complainers?
 
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Is this a wide spread issue. Not really seeing much about it? Is there a forum of complainers?
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The Oculus/meta forum used to be a place foe VR enthusiasts, now it's a place for kids that are locked out of facebook and don't know how to start their VR. You have to sort through the chaff to find borkdate trends.

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