The Oculus Rift S was released this week. However, some owners are experiencing tracking problems and other USB related issues such as blackouts.
The Oculus Rift S was released this week. However, some owners are experiencing tracking problems and other USB related issues such as blackouts.
The Rift S uses five onboard cameras for tracking. While some preprocessing seems to be done on the headset, the Rift S still pushes USB 3.0 to the limits. USB 3.0 is a widely used standard, but not all USB 3.0 controllers properly support it. This means that some motherboards may have issues.
If you’re having tracking issues such as the headset or controllers freezing in place, or you’re experiencing periodic “blackouts”, try one of these five potential solutions. We recommend trying them in order, as we’ve ordered them from the least time & effort required to the most.
Windows has a feature which cuts power to USB ports it doesn’t think are being used. The problem is, sometimes this triggers a false positive and shuts down the USB port your VR headset is using.
To find the overall setting for this, search for ‘Edit power plan’ in the Start menu.
