Rift S and Rift Build 14.0 Release Notes

ShowbizDonkey · February 24

All of these features and enhancements will become available throughout the week of February 24, 2020.

Oculus Link

The Quest microphone has been re-enabled for use with Link.
A dedicated Oculus Link button has been added to the Oculus Quest menu bar to make jumping into Link quicker and easier. Similarly, a button was added to the Dash belt that allows you to quickly exit Link when using it.
Link audio and microphone volume controls have been added to Dash and the Oculus desktop app.
Moving forward, Oculus Link no longer requires that the Quest software and the PC software have matching version numbers. However, the two software versions must be within one version of the other. For example, Link will function when the Quest is on software version 14 and the PC is software version 15 or the PC software is version 14 and the Quest software is version 13. It will not work if Quest is on version 13 and PC is on version 15 or vice versa.

Miscellaneous

Fixed a bug that prevented Oculus Link from working when the resolution had been adjusted with the Oculus Debug Tool.
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Oculus Link from launching when the Link cable was disconnected and reconnected after ending a previous Link session.
Additional bug fixes and stability improvements

TomCgcmfc · February 24

So, nothing in this for Rift S or cv1 users?

dburne · February 24

Great to see the mic has finally been enabled for Quest with Link. Also volume controls a nice addition.

nalex66 · February 24

Great news about the Link mic and the relaxed version-matching requirement!

ShowbizDonkey · February 24

Quick clarification regarding Link items: some of the new functionality listed here requires your Quest to be on v14 software. That hasn't started rolling out yet, so hang tight for that!

Heaney-555 · February 24

ShowbizDonkey said:

Quick clarification regarding Link items: some of the new functionality listed here requires your Quest to be on v14 software. That hasn't started rolling out yet, so hang tight for that!

Does this include Link microphone, as in v14 will be needed on the Quest for mic?

suppenhuhn · February 25

will my USB-3 Connection work again ? because since the latest update ( PC ) oculus link doesn't work because it's only detecting my connection as USB-2.

Did reinstall,repair updates etc. to fix this but no success

johnad194 · February 25

Still waiting for hand tracking on the Rift S. Seems as though the S is being forgotten, hopefully you guys are working on something big for us and that's the reason behind the lack of new features for us PCVR users. I can only hope.

Oops01 · February 25

Why is this in the Rift S + Rift section as far as I can see its only for the link cable !!

dburne · February 25

Oops01 said:

Why is this in the Rift S + Rift section as far as I can see its only for the link cable !!

"additional bug fixes and stability improvements"

motorsep · February 25

ShowbizDonkey said:

Quick clarification regarding Link items: some of the new functionality listed here requires your Quest to be on v14 software. That hasn't started rolling out yet, so hang tight for that!

When?

DSolt · February 25

Any information about this bug?

https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/comment/731943#Comment_731943

RuneSR2 · February 25

Anyone got the Oculus Video app and can check using v14 PTC if there's sound when playing Vimeo videos? Thanks a lot!

Oculus Support asked me to check this, but it'll take hours to download v14 etc using my slow connection, sigh...

huliqan · February 25

how to disable download oculus-worlds in each update???(((
I do not use the room, but with each update I have to download the extra 10 gigabytes!(((((((((((((((((((((((

dburne · February 25

huliqan said:

how to disable download oculus-worlds in each update???(((
I do not use the room, but with each update I have to download the extra 10 gigabytes!(((((((((((((((((((((((

With each update??

dburne · February 25

RuneSR2 said:

Anyone got the Oculus Video app and can check using v14 PTC if there's sound when playing Vimeo videos? Thanks a lot!

Oculus Support asked me to check this, but it'll take hours to download v14 etc using my slow connection, sigh...

How in the world do you download all those games you play then?

DaSpic · February 25

Is the ipd display pop up being fixed in quest?

SergeMeister1234 · February 25

Does anyone at all care about the insanely low performance of Unreal Engine games in Rift S? Seems the S has been pretty much abandoned and all focus on the quest, and in the process something has broken it

adam.poole.313 · February 25

Tried V14 and all the same problems remain. Rift S is still unplayable after almost 3 months.

CallMeJay360 · February 25

If V15 PTC doesn't include major fixes for the Rift S, Oculus is done for, ever since V12, people with the CV1 and Rift S have been having major issues with their HMDs, all because these people wanted to experiment merging the quest with PC HMDs, force Facebook down our throats and completely ignore anything and everything people have posted over and over, saying they've fixed or cannot replicate the issue with their stations, this is ridiculous and ever since Carmak moved on from VR, the Quality of software for VR had gone down by a lot, only remains a bunch of complacent and from what it seems, untrained workers who push out broken updates and go radio silent on their community, only focusing on the Oculus Quest.

Shame on you.

huliqan · February 26

dburne said:
With each update??

Year! I delete
C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\OC_ASSET_FILES
and
C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\Home2\Content
folders and replace file Home2-Win64-Shipping.exe on homeless file
after each update and oculus soft restores deleted files

((((((((((((((((((((

TomCgcmfc · February 26

To startup in homeless just go to your pc Oculus desktop app settings/ general and at around the bottom disable the start in oculus home slider. Next time you startup you will be homeless. I’ve been using it that way for +2 months and it works great. Faster startup and fewer pc resources. If you ever want to see your home you can press the house icon on your dashboard.

RattyUK · February 26

CallMeJay360 said:

If V15 PTC doesn't include major fixes for the Rift S, Oculus is done for, ever since V12, people with the CV1 and Rift S have been having major issues with their HMDs, all because these people wanted to experiment merging the quest with PC HMDs, force Facebook down our throats and completely ignore anything and everything people have posted over and over, saying they've fixed or cannot replicate the issue with their stations, this is ridiculous and ever since Carmak moved on from VR, the Quality of software for VR had gone down by a lot, only remains a bunch of complacent and from what it seems, untrained workers who push out broken updates and go radio silent on their community, only focusing on the Oculus Quest.

Shame on you.

Interesting...

I have no major issues with my Rift S.
I don't seem to be having Facebook Stuffed down my throat
In general the quality of updates appear to be well executed

Of course, I may just be the exception

lensmandave · February 26

RattyUK said:

CallMeJay360 said:

If V15 PTC doesn't include major fixes for the Rift S, Oculus is done for, ever since V12, people with the CV1 and Rift S have been having major issues with their HMDs, all because these people wanted to experiment merging the quest with PC HMDs, force Facebook down our throats and completely ignore anything and everything people have posted over and over, saying they've fixed or cannot replicate the issue with their stations, this is ridiculous and ever since Carmak moved on from VR, the Quality of software for VR had gone down by a lot, only remains a bunch of complacent and from what it seems, untrained workers who push out broken updates and go radio silent on their community, only focusing on the Oculus Quest.

Shame on you.

Interesting...
I have no major issues with my Rift S.
I don't seem to be having Facebook Stuffed down my throat
In general the quality of updates appear to be well executed
Of course, I may just be the exception

Yep, same for me. I have had no problems since they fixed the 'white static flashes' way way back.

dburne · February 26

RattyUK said:

CallMeJay360 said:

If V15 PTC doesn't include major fixes for the Rift S, Oculus is done for, ever since V12, people with the CV1 and Rift S have been having major issues with their HMDs, all because these people wanted to experiment merging the quest with PC HMDs, force Facebook down our throats and completely ignore anything and everything people have posted over and over, saying they've fixed or cannot replicate the issue with their stations, this is ridiculous and ever since Carmak moved on from VR, the Quality of software for VR had gone down by a lot, only remains a bunch of complacent and from what it seems, untrained workers who push out broken updates and go radio silent on their community, only focusing on the Oculus Quest.

Shame on you.

Interesting...
I have no major issues with my Rift S.
I don't seem to be having Facebook Stuffed down my throat
In general the quality of updates appear to be well executed
Of course, I may just be the exception

Same here.
Throughout each version change my Rift S has been working beautifully.
Not to take anything away from those users who are experiencing issues as I am sure it is very frustrating, just to say it may not be quite as widespread as it might seem.

LuluViBritannia · February 26

@RattyUK: While I don't have any issues at all with my Rift, we can't deny that the attention of Oculus VR shifted almost 100% towards the Quest and Facebook features. The very last real update we had on PC VR was the introduction of Dash, and that was more than 2 years ago. After that, ALL updates have been about social features (which do require a Facebook account, it's a fact) and Quest features. When it comes to PCVR, improvements were minor, and we got no new features at all.

That said, Link has the potential to be great, so I'm glad that they're focusing on that for now. The problem is we've been hanging on for way too long on the PCVR side. It's retarded that they didn't work on a performance mode that allows to run VR apps with the absolute minimum.

TomCgcmfc · February 26

LuluViBritannia said:

@RattyUK: While I don't have any issues at all with my Rift, we can't deny that the attention of Oculus VR shifted almost 100% towards the Quest and Facebook features. The very last real update we had on PC VR was the introduction of Dash, and that was more than 2 years ago. After that, ALL updates have been about social features (which do require a Facebook account, it's a fact) and Quest features. When it comes to PCVR, improvements were minor, and we got no new features at all.

That said, Link has the potential to be great, so I'm glad that they're focusing on that for now. The problem is we've been hanging on for way too long on the PCVR side. It's retarded that they didn't work on a performance mode that allows to run VR apps with the absolute minimum.

While you are quite welcome to your opinion on all this, I kinda disagree with most of them. Again, just my opinion(s).

First of all I think that Oculus has done a very good job improving pcvr over the past couple of years. For me (Rift cv1) up until ~1.38/1.39 I think that the performance/features improved quite a bit and the platform was very stable. Once v12 software was introduced it's been downhill.

I blame their need to make the Quest Link (which is still in beta btw) work at all costs. Very silly imho and Oculus should have just kept separate software app for Rift (S and cv1) and the Quest Link. At least until the Quest Link was stable and out of Beta.

As far as making pcvr work on the lowest PC specs possible by providing a performance mode that's just about the worse thing to do because it will do nothing but induce motion sickness and poor visual results. If you want good pcvr then you need a good pcvr PC (even with the Quest Link). WMR already has a low 60fps performance mode that you can even run with an integrated cpu. Try it and I assure you will not like it (I tried this a long time ago btw).

Anyway, just my $0.02 worth. I still have not got the v14 update but I suspect it isn't going to float my boat, lol!

adam.poole.313 · February 26

RattyUK said:

Interesting...
I have no major issues with my Rift S.
I don't seem to be having Facebook Stuffed down my throat
In general the quality of updates appear to be well executed
Of course, I may just be the exception

You are not the exception but if you research this issue you will find that there is an absolutely massive amount of people who have been unable to reliably use their Rift S since the version 12 driver release in December. Probably 50 posts here about it, even more on Reddit, some developers have even complained, and now Tech websites are publishing articles about it. Read some of the reviews on Amazon in the last couple months. The S is seriously p*ssing people off. Most people have no idea that the problems were introduced through an update, they just assume the hardware is flawed.

Since I am one of the ones effected I am obviously not a big fan of Oculus anymore and the frequent updates for Quest or for silly additions (avatar features, etc..) are frustrating when they continue to ignore such a huge problem that renders our product useless.

huliqan · February 26

TomCgcmfc said:

To startup in homeless just go to your pc Oculus desktop app settings/ general and at around the bottom disable the start in oculus home slider.

No,it constantly keeps the dash running with grid and dash-panel ! And with oculus homeless file i have no dash and no room(home) !!!
With oculus homeless file more performance !!!

TomCgcmfc · February 26

huliqan said:

TomCgcmfc said:

To startup in homeless just go to your pc Oculus desktop app settings/ general and at around the bottom disable the start in oculus home slider.

No,it constantly keeps the dash running with grid and dash-panel ! And with oculus homeless file i have no dash and no room(home) !!!
With oculus homeless file more performance !!!

Ok, if you say so, lol! I'm not sure why you would not want to be able to call up your dashboard when you need it? Dash will still run in any case because it's the backbone of Oculus runtime. Anyway, if you think it's doing you a lot of good, that's great imho.

VampirePancakeNeko · February 26

Will i be able to still buy an rift s or is it discontinued?

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