Quest 3 and steam vr blurryness.

[Henry]

No matter what settings I change it seem to have no affect on the quality.. Like my games are blurry, unsharp I cannot see clearly more than few feet. (Yes I have adjusted my headset and lences.) Any ideas how you can improve the overall guality of steam vr as in my computer screen look beutifull yet in the headset its awfull like yeah I get that you do not get same guality as in monitor but I mean its bad.. Like un enjoyable bad.

[charlesl]

What resolution is your main resolution slider set to (Percentage / resolution) in your Video settings in SteamVR?

[Henry]

Originally posted by charlesl:

What resolution is your main resolution slider set to (Percentage / resolution) in your Video settings in SteamVR?

They are set to reccomended the stock values

[Henry]

Originally posted by Henry:

Originally posted by charlesl:

What resolution is your main resolution slider set to (Percentage / resolution) in your Video settings in SteamVR?

They are set to reccomended the stock values

120hz 3200x1728

[dktronics]

Henry, goto Google, and try the following "Quest 3 stuck in low power mode"
It's affecting a good few Quest 3 owners, including myself.
Basically, low power mode makes the Quest 3 look low resolution, and blurry, and any attempt to correct this just does nothing, only upscale a blurry image.
You might not have this, and it's something else, but worth a try first.

[Henry]

Originally posted by dktronics:

Henry, goto Google, and try the following "Quest 3 stuck in low power mode"
It's affecting a good few Quest 3 owners, including myself.
Basically, low power mode makes the Quest 3 look low resolution, and blurry, and any attempt to correct this just does nothing, only upscale a blurry image.
You might not have this, and it's something else, but worth a try first.

Thanks I will certainly give it a go.

[Henry]

Originally posted by dktronics:

Henry, goto Google, and try the following "Quest 3 stuck in low power mode"
It's affecting a good few Quest 3 owners, including myself.
Basically, low power mode makes the Quest 3 look low resolution, and blurry, and any attempt to correct this just does nothing, only upscale a blurry image.
You might not have this, and it's something else, but worth a try first.

I did do the reboot and I do not see much improvement it is playable yet far cry from the actual footage the meta has shown.. Idk could it be something else it just seems odly unsharp and focused.

[tv.Turbomatix]

It all comes down to your internet connection. If you use the Quest link cable and launch through meta quest app desktop it should look a lot better

[Henry]

Originally posted by tv.Turbomatix:

It all comes down to your internet connection. If you use the Quest link cable and launch through meta quest app desktop it should look a lot better

Okay gotta buy that then

[rewrisk]

This has been an intermittent problem with Quest Steam VR or Windows for several years. If you go to windows graphics settings you will see the VR dashboard is set to power saving mode you can change it too performance and it will improve some but I always still get some graphical aberrations. Typically 12-24 hours pass and the problem will just go away? I got hit with this as well and made the mistake of changing a setting in the hopes it would fix things, disabling oculus XR override and now I can't see my desktop when using Virtual desktop?

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by Henry:

Originally posted by tv.Turbomatix:

It all comes down to your internet connection. If you use the Quest link cable and launch through meta quest app desktop it should look a lot better

Okay gotta buy that then

Another option if you want to remain untethered is to buy a second router which is dedicated to your quest. Because each router is only capable of sending and receiving over a limited number of channels (based on the number of antennae, which is why more expensive routers look like Sauron's crown) the more wifi devices you have the worse the connection to each one will be, so if you have a dedicated router for your quest then the quest will have the best connection possible.

Or at least that is what I was able to gather, not being a network engineer I don't really understand it. But I have never had any kind of problem with using a dedicated router for the quest. Especially since you can put it in your VR room so you also get the benefit of proximity.

[rewrisk]

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

Originally posted by Henry:

Okay gotta buy that then

Another option if you want to remain untethered is to buy a second router which is dedicated to your quest. Because each router is only capable of sending and receiving over a limited number of channels (based on the number of antennae, which is why more expensive routers look like Sauron's crown) the more wifi devices you have the worse the connection to each one will be, so if you have a dedicated router for your quest then the quest will have the best connection possible.

Or at least that is what I was able to gather, not being a network engineer I don't really understand it. But I have never had any kind of problem with using a dedicated router for the quest. Especially since you can put it in your VR room so you also get the benefit of proximity.

Actually pretty sure the multiple antennae are for beam forming which massively increase bandwidth throughput. There's no reason why a single antennae can not send and receive on multiple frequencies simultaneously.
Can you only see single frequencies of light? Same thing in principle.

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by rewrisk:

Can you only see single frequencies of light? Same thing in principle.

... Yes. That's why you have different cones, each for light of a specific wavelength. For humans these are the L (Long), M (Medium) and S (Short) cones and Rods, roughly equivalent to Red, Green and Blue with rods also falling under a different part of the blue waveband but being used to pick up light intensity and not colour. Because of biological imprecision they are not perfectly tuned but the sensitivity falls off a cliff either side of the peak (which is around 565nm, 535nm, 420nm and 500nm respectively, with some individual variance because of genetics). Your brain then uses the relative signal strength from each of the types of cells to calculate a perceived colour. That is how you see cyan and red for example, despite your eyes having very low sensitivity to those wavelengths (counter intuitively the Red cells are actually tuned to yellow, but they're the only cells that have sensitivity extending into the red range at all, so your brain calculates that you see red based on weak input into the red cones).

You might be right regarding radio antennae, though it contradicts the small amount of education I have on the subject.

[WarBucks]

An antenna sees all the frequencies in its range at once. They are all in some way a piece of dumb metal. its the radios that do the tuning that pick out or transmit those specific frequencies.

What the radio does with two antennas is send a signal out one antenna, then that same bit signal gets "phase delayed" and sent out the other. that time difference and the antenna locations are the calculated to do error correction. Less errors equals more succesful packets.

Theres a lot more to it than that of course, and im not RF expert. But a single radio/antenna combo can only do one thing at a time on one frequency. Or say one radio chip with multiple controlled radios work in tandem. with the same bit of info and a whole bunch of calculations

Thats why wifi is "half duplex".

[WarBucks]

Heres a great video by the ruckus RF expert on general wifi. Ruckus is an enterprise Accesspoint brand, this video is anxient but its all totally relevant. the technology has improved but fundementally the same

https://youtu.be/kcIkgyRGFQE?si=GRN6iSkhLvVnjnZ4