We setup our Christmas tree and I noticed that it was interfering with the tracking. The headset confuses the LED lights on the tree for the controller.
I have to unplug my tree during playtime.
Posted Nov 21, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC
This is why Eric for president had terrible tracking. He has a Christmasesque light decoration in his play space.
you're right he sure does. haha, he hated the tracking haha. But he is doing what im gonna do which is index controllers and G2. best of both worlds
Yes, also wigs out rifts
Nope: https://www.androidcentral.com/oculus-quest-can-now-differentiate-christmas-lights-controllers
Quest is not a rift.
It's Quest and Rift S
Yes they do. Personal experience.
You put up your Christmas tree a week before Thanksgiving? Insanity!
For real, you do you.
We've had ours up a week. Seems to be a trend now. (I actually will put it up any time in November because its my favorite holiday and I love having the decor. 1 month seems too short, I usually get about 2 month out of it haha.
All good! Do you get a real tree or synthetic? I can’t imagine a real tree lasting 2 months! Edit for autocorrect.
I'm not who you originally responded to, but we've been using the same tree for almost 5 years now! Actually got it out of the forest when it was a really small tree, and when it's not christmas time we keep it in the garden in a really big pot. It just keeps on living :P
Syntehtic, my mother in law lives with us and has a reaction (allergic) to real trees unfortunately.
You may be onto something here. What if we put Christmas trees on our controllers. Maybe we will get better tracking!
Yep. I wonder what other lights cause interference? LED, those curly fluorescent bulbs, bright sunlight. I'm in a basement with overhead recessed Hue LED lights. Maybe if they're non white colors they won't interfere. Hopefully I'll find out before Xmas vacation.
It’s only those little sparkly Christmas lights. Well, and natural sunlight. Both mess up oculus tracking as well. Hue lights are fine (all our lights are hues), and those curly lights are fine (previous lights were those before upgrade).
I think the Christmas lights freak it out because it ends up looking like a similar pattern to the controllers. I’ve had issues when there was a little ‘light dot’ pattern on the wall from light shining through the curtains too.
this does not surprise me at all, however makes me think i will make sure not to run my leds in my room when playing.
I have rows of LED lights on my shelves, hasn’t affected my tracking at all.
I would imagine if they were white and exposed they would, but mine are behind my desk and shelves for more backlighting. And they rotate colors, so i can assume they wont interfer.
Damm i got a whole wall behind me, lit up. Oh well.
This is why there are so many different reports about G2 tracking varying from perfect to unplayable; everyone’s play area is different so the performance varies.
My Christmas three is also gets confused when I turn on my controllers! Its like he got twin baby's.
well yeah...makes sense