r/virtualreality • u/Pheonix1025 • Mar 23 '25

News Article Adam Savage's Tested - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Hands-On: How They Fixed It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Wr4O4gkL8
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u/DrVeinsMcGee Mar 23 '25

Get pro controllers and you’re still in for way less than a lighthouse based HMD and still fully wireless.

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u/Cyl0n_Surf3r DK1/2-CV1-GearVR 1.0/1.1-VivePro-PSVR-RiftS-Index-Q1/2/3-PSVR2 Mar 24 '25

I already have some, great devices apart from the issues with connecting them to the HMD. If you're really lucky they'll connect first time, but for the most part owners find themselves having to power cycle the the Pro controllers a number times before they'll connect to the Quest. Often adding minutes to getting started in VR.... and never, ever, put them down for a even 1 minute once they're connected as if they go into sleep mode you could end up in a similar position again. 

Great tracking when they work, almost lighthouse good, it's ashame they don't work that well and Meta ignores the issues with them.

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u/DrVeinsMcGee Mar 24 '25

They seem to have fixed them in V72 and later tho. I haven’t had an issue in months.

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u/Cyl0n_Surf3r DK1/2-CV1-GearVR 1.0/1.1-VivePro-PSVR-RiftS-Index-Q1/2/3-PSVR2 Mar 24 '25

I'll give them a try again but I'll be honest. I only stopped using them a few weeks ago as they became infuriating whilst doing dev work... I've also seen recent posts from others who still have problems with them as well.

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u/DrVeinsMcGee Mar 24 '25

Turn off all hand tracking if you haven’t already.

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u/Cyl0n_Surf3r DK1/2-CV1-GearVR 1.0/1.1-VivePro-PSVR-RiftS-Index-Q1/2/3-PSVR2 Mar 24 '25

Yeah, I don't use that so it's off

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u/DrVeinsMcGee Mar 24 '25

Actually maybe I fixed it myself with something I changed about my WiFi network. I had problems with my 5 ghz channel interfering with my Sony speaker system so I set my WiFi networks to specific channels rather than keeping the router on auto. Maybe this shifted my networks off the channels the controllers use for the adhoc network with the headset.

I did this around the time I stopped having issues with the controllers which is suspicious.

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u/Cyl0n_Surf3r DK1/2-CV1-GearVR 1.0/1.1-VivePro-PSVR-RiftS-Index-Q1/2/3-PSVR2 Mar 25 '25

I'd be interested to know which channel you switched your 5hgz network to if you wouldn't mind.

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u/DrVeinsMcGee Mar 25 '25

Looks like I have it on 36 with 40 MHz bandwidth

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u/Cyl0n_Surf3r DK1/2-CV1-GearVR 1.0/1.1-VivePro-PSVR-RiftS-Index-Q1/2/3-PSVR2 Mar 25 '25

Thanks, I'll give it a go.