I have a G2 and for some reason when my computer couruptped I cant get a boundary anymore (the computer is fine now). It just loses tracking when I am trying to make the boundary

Hello.

I'm about ready to sell our Odyssey and get a meta quest 2 headset.

I boot up the mixed reality portal and have to keep reconfiguring my space. Once I finally get into a steam game the dang thing goes black and gives me that input has switched to desktop use win y to switch back to headset. When I do that it tells me to put headset back on when it's on. I've been back and forth for 2 hours now reading reddit posts on how to fix this. Updating things. Restarting computer. I even flipped my mouse over to avoid any pop ups. Nothing seems to work. I've booted up steam link too and it goes black screen and same prompt.

So before I sell this headset, any other options? It's an older Odyssey. Not sure if that's a reason.

Frustrated. Just wanted to try to play a game 😂 yes my connections are fine too.

Hello, I have a problem, my cpu is avx (I5 3570) and I want to play a game that needs avx2

My question is

Is there a way to run it with my CPU?

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for some stupid reason the windows mixed reality controllers are awful with any type of AA battery,

i have tried 4 different brands (that i already owned) and 2 were Zinc (1.5v "EVEREADY"s but died fast, and 1.5v "KODAK"s which i doubled up with the "energizers", which is definitely a bad idea don't do that), one was 1.5v Alkaline "Varta"s, the other was the green and silver "energizer" rechargeable idk what they're made of, which are 1.2v

they lasted longest with the "Varta" Alkaline batteries i believe but im not too certain as they were already in the controller when i found them after the whole set had been stashed away in a box because no one wanted to use it.

im not sure if they did last longer than the double up or not because Steam's battery meter is TERRIBLE and horribly inaccurate.

im considering buying a large pack of them but they're around 20$ and idk if they're even better, plus they're disposable but its like a pack of 30.

it would save me time recharging my energizers and would also leave me to use said energizers if my Xbox controller dies and i want to use it.

but what i cant wrap my head around is why they only last like 5 hours with regular AA batteries which they're designed for.

i know 1.2v isnt really the best idea for controllers but they're perfect for Xbox controllers and my small camera, so i thought "what's a bit of extra use" and became incredibly disappointed almost immediately.

all in all i know jack-shit about batteries and much less on how WindowsMR works, but suggestions on relatively priced and SAFE batteries would be appreciated, also and explanation on why they're swallowing my battery life like seagulls would be great..

I just replaced my PC, and now when I launch windows mixed reality, I only have the cliffhouse or the skyloft. On my old computer I had the far superior circular platform that wasn't a waste of RAM. I also used to have floating screen to access SteamVR, and for the life of me I cant figure out how to get it back again. It used to be the only object in my WMR place. Now I have to take off my headset and launch steam using my mouse and then put the headset back on. What did I do last time to make this shit work properly?

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imo they should add vr onto the xbox series consoles, afterall the xbox series consoles are way more powerful than the ps4

Help! Can i remotely lock my laptop which i had lend to a closed one for work and now i need my laptop back and the closed one is refusing to give it back. P.s they know the log in pin, even if i lock it from my microsoft account can they still log in.

i think my cable is bad because 4-1 is still showing up. How can i change the cable?

Hi! It's been since 3-4 months and i still can't play on my lenovo explorer. It's always showing me 4-1 error code, idk why. Can someone please help me?

Could be totally unrelated, but ever since using this thing around 2019-2020 my eyesight has slowly gotten worse from 20/20 to now needing a perscription. I have probably around 2k hours in this thing. Not sure the correlation between VR and eyesight but i would like to reduce damage as much as possible. How is it different from looking outside for example?

Is it bad to have the screens right up on your eye with that magnifying glass like lens? Thinking of an ant under the sun lol. I really dont get eyestrain like that, but the degradation in my vision is really noticable. Again could be unrelated.

Has anyone had a similar experience. I really like this thing and would hate to give it up. but the possibility of correlation is hard to ignore? Do we know how these screens affect our eyesight?

Edit: I only have astigmatism so i see things slightly double, i dont have typical blurry vision as far as i know! Hope this helps!

first post, im not a rich guy si cant get the alton mic but i was wondering if can i use Lavalier Microphone on quest 3 as that would be awsome bit not sure with the usb c connecion it comes with

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I've had so many issues with steam VR + WMR completely freezing as if the headset had disconnected , but I can still look around within the headset and WMR still registers it as plugged in. the only solution I found to it is restarting my computer and even after restarting it will go back to broken once I get into a game. my specs are as follows: Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2060 6GB, 16GB 3200 ram. I am not experiencing any issues with lag or lack of frame rate but the freezing is a huge issue.

any clue what I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

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it tells that its not plugged in buz i can see it working. it was working yesterday

Whenever my controllers are out of view for a while (the amount of time can range, but generally even for a short time this still happens), once they're back in view of the cameras, their tracking is messed up and they need to be reconnected. When they're in that "messed up" state, they sometimes jump to the correct position for a second, but don't properly/consistently track. Their rotation/gyro is still tracked in this state, however, it's just the positional tracking that breaks and requires a power off/on of the controllers.

For clarification, I'm not saying the issue is that they don't track when out of view - I understand they need to be seen by the cameras to track, of course. The issue is that once they're out of view for a while, they no longer track properly even when in view of the cameras, until they're powered off & on.

I've tried both an external Bluetooth USB dongle, and my device's built in, more modern Bluetooth adapter. I find the tracking is better and more consistent with my built-in adapter, so I use that. This tracking loss issue, however, occurs with both adapters.

I have an Acer AH101 with it's Acer controllers!

Because of this, I can't really put my arms to my sides or anything when I'm, for example, walking around in games. Has anyone else had this/a similar issue?

I'm on an HP Reverb G2, Windows 11, and whether it's through SteamVR or not, I get a few seconds of audio and then it dies. Opening the WMR menu guarantees it will go mute but it will mute on its own before I can get past the main menu of any game. I've swapped the USB between every port on my PC to no avail. The audio in the game is broken but I'm still able to hear the audio from WMR menu interactions.

Is this a dead cord? A Driver/Audio priority issue? Any ideas? I've uninstalled and reinstalled every related program and none of it has helped.

Update: The only things I can deduce so far are that it's not a dead cord or dead speakers because those things work fine while they are working, there's no crackling or fuzz or dropping in and out. I don't think it's a driver or priority issue because Realtek is staying as the default audio output while the headset is plugged in. So far my best guess is that it's an issue with actual window focus on my desktop and it's not allowing sound to play from a window that is defocused, and for some reason using the windows menu on the headset is defocusing the window. Mostly just writing this out for my own benefit but if it helps anyone else having this issue in the future then I'll be happy, because I can't seem to find anyone else on the internet having this issue.

Update 2: For some ungodly fucking reason, it is the win+y tooltip. I don't know how or why, but after some testing I figured out that I have to start the game, take off my headset, go to my desktop and close the tooltip, refocus the game, go back to my headset, and ONLY THEN will the audio stay on. I've spent four fucking days trying to figure this out. And of course there is no way to permanently turn off the tooltip so this has to be done every single time I start up another game, but hey, at least the actual problem has been identified.

it's all in the title, I tried turning more lights on and changing batteries but to no avail. i looked at the sidebar and saw that the controller's status kept flickering from "connected" to "lost tracking", i don't know why this happened specifically to the right controller and I would love some assistance

I'm not sure I understand what it does exactly, but will it save my HP Reverb G2 after WMR is discontinued?

Hey, I'm trying to use my headset (Lenovo Explorer) on my Steam Deck, and I managed to make Mixed Reality Portal mostly run on it.

OpenXR apps works perfectly fine (like Beat Saber), but I can't make SteamVR to work with WMR (but it works fine with my HTC Vive)

When I launch the WMR SteamVR driver, it launches SteamVR, but fails and shows the 301 error "a key component isn't working properly. Meanwhile in VR, nothing happens.

I pretty much tried everything, from editing a few files to install pretty much every beta version of both software.

Windows 11 22H2, amernimezone APU drivers.

I have a Odyssey+ headset and have had it since late 2019. I used to play Pavlov a lot and enjoyed it but I tried to play it again after having not played it for a year or more and now the buy menu no longer works. I've looked online and they either mention changing the runtime or controls. If I keep it to the Windows Mixed Reality runtime I can't pull up the Steam VR menu to change keybinds and if I change to the Steam VR runtime none of the controls work. Any WMR users here who have fixed this issue?

I'm quite familiar with my odyssey+ and have used it for a number of years, but having returned to it after a long break I can no longer change the resolution in the windows settings. Headset works fine, can change refresh rate and visual quality too. Just met with "Headset not connected or your headset does not support scaling" specifically for the res, and googling this literally comes up with 0 results. Any suggestions? https://i.imgur.com/mt4mMEZ.png

I try most of the things they ask just can’t get it to work I unstable window updates try to uninstall windows mixed reality but it does work

I have a very basic room downloaded, one wall is basically a large desktop view. Everytime I get into the room, I have to "backup" to see the desktop. I use an Xbox controller to move about, but it does movements in steps and they are too large to get centered easily. Also if I turn to look forward at the screen with the analog sticks, its turning way too much so I'm always angled looking at the desktop.

Can tweak any of this to make it easier for viewing?

I'm just wondering if there are any other methods of fixing this issue as i've tried all the ones in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsMR/comments/14wxnu2/fix_for_wmr_getting_stucked_at_60/ and NONE of them have worked (i won't deny possible user error here but i followed them and they had seemingly worked but i could be wrong). It just stays at 60 percent and if i try restarting my computer it stays on a black update screen saying "Updates are underway Please keep your computer on" (longest time being 2 hrs before it eventually gave up) and then tries to re-install again but gets back to that 60 percent. I have no other updates on my computer, i updated my bios, drivers, checked the windows update multiple times, installed the latest graphics driver for my computer, but my system is just stuck trying to re-install this program and getting no where. I've been trying to figure this out for about 5 hrs now and nothing has worked...so any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hello all. I am trying to get at least one, and preferably multiple windows open in my VR cockpit inside of DCS.

What I have tried that does not work:

I am having a bit of trouble getting an app open inside of the game DCS. I can get the window up thru the controller, and get it tuned to the youtube tutorial I want to watch as I fly, but intereacting with the menu and window causes the game to lose focus. When I hit Win Y to help bring the game back into focus the edge window loses all the content on it! it just becomes a blank box, and any further "clicks" on it just spam new windows onto my desktop whether the inputs through Win Y are focused on the desktop or the vr space.

I can get the desktop view to work, but it has to problems. The first is that I think its trying to use HDR value being sent to my monitor, and as my G2 has no HDR its all washed out and overly bright. The killer issue though is while I can have a video open on the desktop and playing, and view it in the cockpit, once the game is alt tabbed to be in focus and accepting my input contols the desktop VR view then covers the video.

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TL:DR : I have been trying to get it to work through WMR and this was very promising but I can't quit crack the code. I am happy to buy software to make it work, but what I have found seems to require use of VR controllers, and this does not work well for sim pilots for a couple of reasons.

Any tips would be super appreciated!

Hope everyone is having a great day!

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Not for everyone, and I assume most already know that they can dual boot.

However, say you have a perfectly fine working Windows 10, already totally set up with WMR, everything configured, shortcuts, all requisite software, etc... as well as a "small or empty" system partition?

Image it. I use Acronis that comes free with all major hard drives. Then restore that image to a second drive.

You will now have two identical working versions of Windows 10, already set up and ready to go. You can disable HAGS in the "new" install, and tailor it for WMR only.

Lastly you can use EasyBCD to add it to your bootloader menu, and then you can even make a custom shortcut "restart to vr..." that will restart your pc to the 'WMR install.' I put it in my start menu.

Restarting the vr install bring you back to main install.

Takes maybe 20 mins to an hour depending on experience and drive speeds. If you have a full drive C (you should never load up your system partition! Mine is only 96gb! Image is 16gb.) this probably isn't for you, unless you are willing to move some files around.

PS: You can change the key on the second install, so its a separate license. Get a cheap OEM key. *Also make it an offline Windows account, still works with WMR.