Meta Quest

Brave

Deleting your Facebook, deletes all your oculus purchases

It’s such a shame. Stand-alone VR would be amazing, but I’m just not getting on board with their shit.

DrDamn

So what did people do about accounts in the end when they totally crumbled? One purely for Oculus or use an existing one?

Brave

I had to set up a new one as I’d cancelled my original account. 😕

Alex

I just used my normal Facebook one.

Alex

@DrDamn I realise I forgot to include a USB-C to USB 3 adapter like I said I would. I have loads of them so if you need I can pop one in an envelope and post it.

DrDamn

Alex I have a USB-C port on my PC so should be fine. Thanks anyway 😁

BritishBean

Did anyone else experience issues with the Oculus Link test? I’m using the included 1m USB C cable into the USB C port on the laptop. When it did it’s tests it said “plug into a USB 3 port to get full bandwidth”… I’ve got another cable which is USB A one end and USB C the other and plugged it into all USB ports but I still got the same message.

The USB C and 2x USB A ports are USB 3.2 apparently on my laptop so wondering if it’s the cable maybe?

Brave

Yeah you need to get a dedicated link cable matey. That cable (if it’s the one that comes in the box) is just for charging. Link didn’t launch until a few months after the quest 2 came out iirc. So it’s always been sold separately.

It’s a high data rate cable. If you scroll up you’ll find a couple of cheap alternatives to the Oculus brand one; which is expensive imo, but performs a little bit better. I’ve got the cheaper alternative and I’ve never had issues though.

Alex

Yeah you need a proper cable for it. The bandwidth needed by VR is incredibly high, you need thick well-shielded cables rather than the little ones designed to carry .5 amps of power. Also not all USB sockets are equal. You should try it in different sockets on your computer as some provide considerably better performance. Don’t take USB 3.0 for granted, some USB 3 sockets are shite. The Oculus will compress the image if the bandwidth isn’t high enough leading to the picture looking more grainy and generally crappy so having a good performing socket/cable is worth it.

BritishBean

Alex Don’t take USB 3.0 for granted, some USB 3 sockets are shite.

This was bang on. The USB Test wouldn’t start when plugged into the USB-A 3.2 port on the left side of the laptop. However, plugged into the one on the right side and the test ran and confirmed it was compatible and green.

Haven’t noticed any improvement latency wise though so I think it probably had the same bandwidth or similar using the other 3.2 port but the test wouldn’t run for some reason.

Very quickly tried RaceRoom a minute ago. Although textures are somewhat less detailed, it does achieve a low latency performance and pleasing looking graphics out of the box. I suppose the issue is ACC is a lot more detailed graphically?

Having seen RaceRoom run smoothly it really does make me consider iRacing. The costs worry me though.

BritishBean

I’ve borrowed a friends cable and I think my limitation is my laptop. To get it running with 10ms latency which feels ok, the visuals are awful.

If I pic VR Epic the visuals are good but latency is up to 30ms

Brave

That seems odd to me. Is it an actual cable that’s been used to drive oculus link by your friend ?

BritishBean

Brave yes apparently been used with it with no issues before but when I tried the USB test it came up with an error saying it couldn’t start the test. However, I was able to change refresh rate from 72hz to 80, 90 or 120 so assumed that was because the cable was more suitable.

My GPU utilisation is at about 96-97% with VR epic and 20-30ms latency.

My own cable arrives today so will test with that but I’m not holding my breath.

Jogort

BritishBean where are you seeing the latency numbers, don’t think I’ve noticed that. Yeah VR GPU utilisation is high, my laptop 2070 super does ok on the likes of half-life Alyx but I turn settings down for iracing, might have to try ACC on it.

BritishBean

Jogort You can turn it on in the SteamVR menu when the program box is on the desktop screen 👍🏻

I was wondering about iRacing and whether that was more taxing or not than ACC…

Alex

iRacing is much less taxing than ACC for VR. It’s easier to get VR running well and looking decent in iRacing. That’s one reason I don’t do much ACC these days.

BritishBean

Alex interesting. Maybe worth taking up the Steam offer for 3 months to try it out

Brave

Make sure you don’t use steamvr accidentally. Oculus will run anyway in the background and make the frame rate tank iirc. If you have the option with a quest 2, always go the oculus route.

It shouldn’t happen often, but I had steam vr launch with iracing last season and it took me a while to figure it all out.

BritishBean

Brave hmm ok yes I launch ACC through Steam VR but Oculus app is open in the background. I haven’t found a way to launch ACC VR in Oculus

Brave

Some games don’t give you the option unfortunately. If you’re launching ACC from steam do you get a pop up asking you to choose between steam and oculus and flat screen?

Brave

This is what I get. If you see this, choose oculus.

BritishBean

Brave Ah right ok thank you I’ll try. I think I’ve tried opening the desktop app and it told me I’m opening the native version not VR. So I’ll try this route thanks.