How To Improve or Fix Oculus Quest 2 Tracking 

Oooh I should've included that! They tend to get very icky with all the handling. Thank you! Check out the description!

Nice tip!

You just saved my day!

Your a legend

Can you use compressed air very carefully to get stuff out of the quest 2 camera's?

You're very welcome Alita! Sorry it took me 3 months to respond lol

samee

I know the pain!!! Lol. Thank you laurent!

Or you just missed it on your own

@@favscripts7680 Me: Can't beat Ghost Also me: *It's just the tracking*

More practice you clearly had a challenge doing it once.

this is the exact reason why I'm here bc of beat saber and missing notes

Thanks Median! I have a bad habit of under explaining when I think a video is going to run long. Oculus insight (inside out tracking) is mostly used for 3d positioning but unlike some headsets that tend to drift over time it also uses the insight tracking to track the rotation of the headset as well. IMU's, or Inertial Measurement Units like the gyroscope track it's real time turning and rotation but over time tend to lose track of the space and this is when you get the dreaded "drift" where the room has turned 90 degrees or more from where you started. Oculus looked to correct this so they had their insight tracking also determine rotation (which is unusual) to prevent this. The IMUs track the fast movements but it uses the 3d map of the room to also track it. That would've been a lot to put in the video but it's a good reminder to be more clear in future videos. Thanks Gamer!

I have noticed this too when near mine. Definitely a good tip thank you craig!

worked for me!

I was having some buggy tracking last night first time playing around my tree but I was facing away so it wasnt too bad so that was probably the problem

Yeah my Christmas tree screwed me over when I was playing games

I’ve been using Xmas lights 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

Hey you're welcome Matt! We only knew about this because on the Windows headsets if you used below a 1.6v it would make your controllers read low battery and turn off your haptic feedback even on a full charge... Awful! Lol

I use 1.5 volt batteris bur it still dont work

Wow thank you so much! Electricity is one of those things that's so much more complicated than it seems and I don't pretend I know it all by any means. I admire electricians!

I have always used the "water" anology to describe it. (Ya, ya... I know... lol). But it does good at giving a "simple idea" of what it is to the "clueless". Amp = the amount of current and Volts = the pressure of the current like water going through a hose, the hose carries the full amount of the water and when it comes to a spray nozzle it can either come out very hard and fast or it can come out slow and gentle depending on how you set the nozzle BUT it can NEVER spray more water than the hose is carrying. I don't know why people cringe at this anology for a "simple" explanation of it because it does give a good easy to remember real world model to compare it to without going into the "geek stuff" most clueless people dont't want or need :). It is absolutely mind boggling how many people are clueless about something like a phone charger that they use a LOT in their life... They get a new one and complain it is "slow" to charge and have no idea what # tells you how fast it will charge... and they get a 1 amp or 1.5 amp charger instead of the 2A or 2.5A one (and you still have to check those too because it might have 3A labeled on it but only 1.5A on each port). Once again I fall back on the "water" analogy... If you want to fill a pool with water it will not fill any faster by using the small high powered jet setting on your nozzle because the hose only delivers so much water.... you need a bigger HOSE to fill it up faster.

I'm so glad to hear that helped you! No matter how good you get the Quest it still won't compare to your old lighthouse tracking but hopefully now it's close enough to be enjoyed again!

Hey Proto! I think WMR really helped prime me for troubleshooting my setup lol. My HP one was just not great. It's crazy to see the G2 and how it's progressing though. I just wish they'd change up the controllers a bit and use some more modern tracking.

Haha hi Bosan!

@@jaybratt hi :D

lol do a 180 with ur psvr lmk how ur game play gets affected XD

@@toxicqueenxd8687 Just move ps camera 2 meters above the ground, lmao.

You're so welcome Ellie! That makes me really happy to hear it helped you. Thanks!

You're welcome Force! Glad to be of help 😊

I'm so happy to hear that Chris! Thank you and Welcome to our community!

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You're welcome Joshua! I bet you're excited, the wireless freedom of the Quest line is just amazing!

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that. You could do a factory reset (hold volume down and power at the same time) this would reset it to the state when you bought it meaning you could lose some high scores or data but it should definitely fix it. Might be worth contacting support.oculus.com first to see what they say though.

Thanks so much Penner! I really appreciate that! You're awesome

Yeah it's a more well known tip on the subreddit but so much of that doesn't always make it to everyone like it needs to.

Sooner or later someone is gonna come out with a competitor for it. For now they have the whole standalone market on LOCK though

Glad to hear it! Thank you!

I'm really glad this helped you Sora! Thank you for the nice comment too!

You're very welcome Reinhart! Thank you for the nice comment!

I'm glad to be of help, thanks Ruthie!

Thanks Ondre, that's what I strive for so it's great to hear that!!

Pierre that makes me so happy! Thank you so much and I'm so glad it's working better now.

Even with the improved tracking I feel like I fail a lot on my quest 2 and almost never on my Rift S. Idk if that one extra camera or the placement makes enough difference but it's a very different experience. Make sure if you are near a Christmas tree avoid that because it causes controllers to straight up run away

You're welcome! The tracking is pretty good on it's own but this is just to tighten it up the rest of the way!

You're welcome Aaron, the Quest 2 tracking is pretty good but it's always helpful to know if it can be tweaked to make it a bit better.

The weird part is people in EU were still having better luck with 60 as well which should've been blacking out. Electricity is so much more complicated than people think lol

@@jaybratt I guess if you had a hypothetical setting of 1,000,000hz, the controllers would be able to make more detection, even when a majority of said defections occurs when the lights go out during the ac cycle when the wave reaches 0. So setting it to 60z would allow the controllers more of an opportunity to track.

2 years later but that's not how lightbulbs work. Incandescent bulbs don't flicker at all because they work like capacitors (they have thermal mass, as someone has put it). Fluorescent lights flicker at 120 Hz, twice per cycle and everyone hates them anyway. LED lights also flicker at about 120 Hz according to my searches.

@@Krzeszny95 Literally use your phone camera and point it at one. Set the shutterspeed to almost anything and there will be a flicker.

@@DerangedScout You're actually right. Every type of lightbulb flickers.

It's more commonly known in the Windows Mixed Reality community as they're constantly fighting with tracking but Oculus is usually good enough that people don't feel they need to troubleshoot it.

Thanks DAWG! I appreciate the nice comment :D

Thanks so much James! They're mostly things that helped a lot on Quest 1's but I was glad to see Oculus fixed the main issue which was the loose spring in the battery compartment. Good to see them noticing!

Thanks T! The only ones that should mess with tracking are the silicone ones that cover the tracking ring. They make cutouts for the tracking lights but the problem is it's easy for them to get turned and block the tracking lights so it's best to avoid these kind, which sucks because it's nice to try to protect that precarious ring!

Thanks neo! You're a treasure :D

Hey I'm glad to hear that Kahiau, a few more things we've learned since. A hard reset sometimes helps (hold volume down and power with the headset on), you can unpair and repair controllers from your phone if one of them acts up too. Glad to be of help 😁

Thanks Angel! I'm glad you enjoyed it and it seems to be helping a lot of people so I'm very happy :D

Thanks Jonathan! I'm loving the battery life on the Quest 2 with the 1.5v's. I have had the same ones in since launch and haven't had to swap them yet!

It definitely also depends on the quality of the batteries. If you get some really nice Eneloop 1.2v you might never notice but I found the amazon and energizer ones just didn't cut it

You're welcome Hyena! Hope it helps you :D

You're welcome Juan. Yeah sunlight just floods the cameras and makes it too hard for it to track. Sad because I wanted to go play in a football field but I'll need a very cloudy day... that also won't rain.. hmmm

Thanks so much chit chat! That means a lot to me!

@@jaybratt I may not be in the youtube game anymore, but I remember the journey. If you want any tips let me know. Keep going man.

@@ChitChat thanks so much. I see twitch on your art. Are you still active there? How was the swap if so?

@@jaybratt I don't do anything now. I barely even use my FB. My RU-vid was a lot stronger than my Twitch so I only know a couple of things about it.

I've considered doing twitch also but I already feel like I'm busy and idk how it would be if I split the streams to a different platform.

Alternatively you can use a infrared light to make a otherwise very dark room trackable.

How about a Tron infrared light? Just projects laser grids and then lights up the room IR? I'd buy it!

@@jaybratt Try one of those holiday projecting spheres that project images in 360 and draw your own grid lines onto a clear sheet and replace the "holiday" theme with grid line theme. Find some of those overhead projector blank sheets (if they even exist anymore... don't know if them are even used anymore).

It can be hard to keep up but I try to respond to every comment! Thanks pizzarella

You're welcome Julian!

Really? I should try that. I haven't messed with the virtual walls or adding your couch yet.

Have you ever seen Zero Latency? We just got invited there and we'll have videos coming soon. They have huge VR arenas you can walk around in and you use backpack PCs with inside out tracked headsets so you can walk anywhere. The room you play in is this massive open room with all these zig zag patterns on the walls to help it track. Google ZERO LATENCY VR and you'll see it in the background of all the images. They told us that's purposeful to make the headsets track really well

Thanks MSG and welcome!!

You're welcome Steven! Thank you for the nice comment!

Mirrors and VR never mix, you're totally right. The PSVR had an especially hard time with them but any mirror near any vr that is visually tracked will mess it up

@@jaybratt indeed! Sorry for replying so late! I forget to check the notifications 😅

@MrSkitMan and is it on every wall in every house, it just a wall? Because you can always just fade away, if it’s a quest or PlayStation

To be fair though, the Quest 1 fails far more easily to this than the Quest 2 does, never seen my hands or virtual controllers fly across the playspace in the Q2 like it tends to happen in the Q1 every now and then. CV1 tracking is completely garbage with mirrors involved though, only works with all reflective surfaces within the trackers' FOV completely covered up. Same with TrackIR BTW, a pre-VR 6dof headtracker that basically uses the same method.

Not just mirrors, but things that act like mirrors, like windows. If you have a bright room and it's dark out the glass basically becomes a mirror. I have tracking issues if I'm playing at night and I forget to close the blinds!

Hey I'm glad to hear it helped. Beat Saber should be the Test Your Tracking game for all headsets lol

I'm so glad to hear that IPG thank you!

You're welcome Joseph! Glad to be of service

Is the new Anker dock? Yes they are, I even mentioned that in my review because I was happy to see that! They did work with Oculus on designing the stand, so I'm sure Oculus insisted on the correct batteries. Anker review: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cp-w-iMmPhQ.html

Sounds like that should be sufficient. If it works so far I would definitely stick with it.

Hey thanks gustavo! Glad to be of help!

You're so welcome ofek! I hope it solves them all. I'm considering doing an expanded list as I've found a few other situations since making this video that effect them light Christmas trees and LED strips can cause issues too. I switch my LEDs to green to play and it's great though.

Kickin it old school!

@@jaybratt yes “old school” * is a literal Motorola that has a folding screen *

We've gotten good feedback it's made a difference for many people so far. Let me know 😊

@@jaybratt I can definitely tell a difference.

@@Berserkeroverland yay! Glad to be of help

@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic thanks i will check them out.

@@Berserkeroverland ye I've been using 1.2v rechargeable batteries for about 3 weeks, and I wasnt experiencing anything concerning, but then my controllers started lagging in game so I impaired them so I could repair them, and now they arent connecting at all. I turned up the tracking frequency and I've switched out the batteries for 1.5v, but they're still not connecting:/

You're very welcome Aidan!

You're very welcome Joe! Glad to hear it helped :)

Haha, well really it's the same as the Quest 1 besides they fixed the battery compartment. All the cameras and tracking are still the same though.

Gorgeous right? I really should be commissioning you more as I don't enjoy making them much haha

@@jaybratt dude! always! i enjoy making them for others :)

Thanks Odyssey! Always happy to see you here!

Glad to hear it Corey thank you so much!

I really do, that's why I got battery packs that can just be charged in the controller but I had a fair number of people tell me they preferred swapping out. Seems crazy to me but I guess they do appreciate the ability to just keep going no matter what

@@jaybratt for me who does not play vr like every minute of my life it seems great to just pick up fully charged controllers

@@vrryan6 I fully agree!

*laughs in rechargeable batteries*

@@neumo5005 i prefer built in rechargables as I hate swapping. I even got a set for my Rift so now it's always charged and ready

I've seen this most with lighting issues. I actually had this problem come back when I played in my garage due to the LED strips I use to light it. I had to switch them to green to get it to stop. I'd try turning on and off different lights around you and make sure you don't have any mirrors in view that will confuse the tracking.

@@jaybratt Ok I will try it later and let you know how it go's, thanks for your time.

@@jaybratt It worked for a bit but started acting up again. Tried it in a couple of different rooms with different lighting. Maybe it's a defective controller? It only happens in beat saber though which is weird.

@@Charzilian beat saber pushes it the hardest with the speed. If you think it might be the controller contact support.oculus.com

@@jaybratt thanx

You're very welcome WET Rank! Glad to be of help 😊

You're so welcome Original! Thank you for the kind comment

Sitting there feeling good lol

Thanks Mark! Yeah we added that to the description and comments. Back when we made this our channel was more US and less international lol. Although some people still reported better tracking with it in EU which I'm not certain how that helped: www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/bvzz47/tracking_kinda_sucks/?

You're welcome Brett, how are you liking it so far?

I'm not gonna lie... I've considered getting one of those umbrella hats LOL

Since making this video I've discovered this one myself and I switch mine to green when I play which works really well. Old PSVR Tracking trick FTW!

You're welcome Brad. Some people have said the 1.2v (as long as they're high quality) will work as well but the manufacturer specs probably say 1.5v because a lot of the 1.2v are low quality and won't hold up. I was glad to see the Anker Charging Dock that Oculus partnered to design came with 1.5v's for rechargeables, but I also wasn't too surprised since Oculus was involved

I'm glad to hear that Anthony thank you!

@@jaybratt Holy smokes he replied!!!

@@Anthonysaesee39 haha I pretty much always do. Some videos it's harder than others but I usually catch up 😁

On the phone app you can re pair them. On the app go to the Settings>headset>controllers>pair new controller (unpair old ones if they show first) hope that fixes it :D

I'm not gonna lie, I googled it right before this and basically quoted that lol

@@jaybratt at least you tried your best and succeeded 😂💯

Thanks Leo!

BlueBird you're amazing! Thank you!

I really appreciate that bella! Welcome to our community!!

@@jaybratt Just checked my two batteries are 5.1 volts the spare ones (also I suggest taking out and putting in back batteries can help with incorrect battery charge detection and low vibration ect)

Overall good video I subbed

Thank you so much Memer! Sorry for the seriously late response!

@@jaybratt Np and the Quest also has a bug were your controller doesnt stop vibrating primarly left in my case it sadly requires a restart but you welcome

I have that problem to and I HATE IT SO MUCH. Usually tho after it won’t let me go back on my games so I just restart the oculus you should try restarting it if it lags you out repeatedly.

For me it normally helps going out of the room and in again (for the tracking issue)

@@vitus4514 so do you have that problem too? (Tracking issue everytime you start the quest)

@@rkotarantu4694 Sometimes, yes. Depends on the location for some reason

Did you ever get this working? Alternate locations or try to contact Oculus? Sorry for the late reply we've got so many comments I'm months behind!

You're welcome Reaper!

I hear you! In high level Beat Saber it can be a killer too!

You found me out!

Congrats Harry that first time is just awesome! Do you have a plan for what games you want to try first?

It is awesome.I got mine 3 days ago and it’s the best thing ever.

You're welcome draco, let me know how they work for you!

@@jaybratt yeah, it's the next day I've played some beat saber and the tracking is noticably better. Thank you very much Jay!

Congrat BlueBerry! Christmas isn't very far away and I get the feeling there's gonna be a lot of Quest2's under peoples trees this year

sadly not mine I'm on the lower class its expensive for me :( I really want one

I would think $300 is expensive to most people but I know what you mean. I did experimental medical studies as a kid to get an N64

@HYPER-Cryptt me too, Christmas can’t come soon enough.

@OkayChevyツ how does that have anything to do with my comment

It shocks me when people just use and toss batteries for anything. Seems so expensive. I have a set of rechargeables in all the VR controllers that need them but can also be charged from the outside so I always have them charged and ready to play

Thanks so much Champ and welcome to our community! Glad to be of help

You're welcome Michael!

Haha, well I gave away the Quest 1 so I'm back down to 2 Oculus devices, hopefully 1 soon if I upgrade my PCVR

Hey I'm glad to hear that Random! Thank you!!

Nice Pumko! Some time you should join in on our multiplayer live streams!

Thanks Butter! You're awesome!

Glad to hear it Ricardo!! Thank you!

Thank you so much PlaztiK!

Thanks Monkey! The Quest2 is a great headset but we still haven't had a perfect headset come out yet... some day!

@@jaybratt sorry I didn't mean it like that the oculus quest 2 is a brilliant headset I had some problems with it but you helped me solve them thanks again and for the reply

@@michealdehiggens7847 hey no need to apologize. I totally agree with you. Glad I was here to help though 😊