Play area setup not showing on headset

[YeeHaa]

I might say smth I already said previously on my other discussion but ive been troubleshooting for 6 hours now and nothing is working and I cant deal with all the money I spent on vr games, this adapter, and the headset itself all being wasted because I cant return any of it. everything is clearly working, but when im in vr its stuck on an Up Next screen. So I opened my desktop view on that steam home page thingy and clearly my Vr was tracking, I could see my controllers in my steam view and my room on my desktop through the vr cameras, but the app wasnt opened in my headset and when I click on the button to track surroundings in the psvr setup it says "cannot track surroundings" along with steam vr claiming that im plugged into the wrong video driver even though the vr is tracking just fine, I can open games like Rec Room and Half Life Alex in vr and have it show up on my vr headset, just the "Setup Playspace" thing is annoyingly at the top of my screen the whole time, do I need to change settings in the psvr2 app to make it show up on my headset or smth????

[tauheedul]

- Set SteamVR settings to Direct Mode.

In SteamVR status toolbar > Developer > Developer Settings > Click "Enable Direct Display Mode" button.

- The play area setup can be done from the PlayStation VR2 application, there is a "..." menu, if you expand that and select the clear and then it will allow you to create it again.

You will need to make sure your room has appropriate lighting and you aren't facing directly at a window or there aren't any light sources facing directly at the front of the headset as that causes issues. So it shouldn't be too dark, or bright.

- If the issues continue, it might be easier to uninstall SteamVR and PlayStation VR2 application and restart the machine.

Then start SteamVR as administrator and install SteamVR before the PlayStation VR2 application and then complete the configuration of the PlayStation VR2 application.

- In the SteamVR settings menu, click the OpenXR tab, and if the API doesn't display "SteamVR" click the "Set SteamVR as the OpenXR runtime".

Click the link "Manage OpenXR API Layers (x Active)"

If there are any items listed, for example;
- OpenXR toolkit API layer
- Compatibility layer for OculusXR Plugin
... and any additional items.

Disable all of these and click "Close".

[pollster]

I had something Similar, when I got my PSVR2 adaptor it kept complaining that some of the USB3 ports on my Asus B550 MB weren't USB3 (detected by the adaptor as USB2). Eventually, found one on the MB it didn't complain about but the play space would show an orange screen, which was wiped away when I looked around, the cameras didn't show my room. Managed to sort this by plugging in am external USB3 hub to this USB port and connecting the PSVR2 adaptor to that, I could then see my room through the camera. Bizare fix, but it work.

[tauheedul]

Originally posted by pollster:

I had something Similar, when I got my PSVR2 adaptor it kept complaining that some of the USB3 ports on my Asus B550 MB weren't USB3 (detected by the adaptor as USB2). Eventually, found one on the MB it didn't complain about but the play space would show an orange screen, which was wiped away when I looked around, the cameras didn't show my room. Managed to sort this by plugging in am external USB3 hub to this USB port and connecting the PSVR2 adaptor to that, I could then see my room through the camera. Bizare fix, but it work.

Thank you. The external hubs can introduce compatibility issues with the PSVR2, but it's awesome it fixed the issue in your configuration. I've seen this come up about twice on reddit, and they were unable to resolve it with updating the bios and reinstalling drivers etc.

Which model USB 3 hub worked?

[pollster]

this is the one I used:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V5K6LSF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I had it lying around as it was not in active use. Thankful for it as I was pulling my hair out trying to get to my PSVR2 sorted.

[tauheedul]

Originally posted by pollster:

this is the one I used:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V5K6LSF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I had it lying around as it was not in active use. Thankful for it as I was pulling my hair out trying to get to my PSVR2 sorted.

Awesome, I'll update Reddit! Thanks

[tauheedul]

Originally posted by pollster:

this is the one I used:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V5K6LSF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I had it lying around as it was not in active use. Thankful for it as I was pulling my hair out trying to get to my PSVR2 sorted.

Did you only have the headset connected to this hub? (When it worked).

Did you have a keyboard or display that has USB 3.0 ports built into it?

[pollster]

Yep, just the PSVR2 connected to the USB 3.0 HUB. The hub itself is connected to a USB 3.1/3.2 on my MB. If i connect the PSVR2 directly to the motherboard USB, the PSVR app complains and says it needs to be connected to a USB 3 port.

[tauheedul]

Originally posted by pollster:

Yep, just the PSVR2 connected to the USB 3.0 HUB. The hub itself is connected to a USB 3.1/3.2 on my MB. If i connect the PSVR2 directly to the motherboard USB, the PSVR app complains and says it needs to be connected to a USB 3 port.

Thanks. I added this feedback to reddit HELP! is the psvr2 completely incompatible with the asus b350 plus motherboard? they had a keyboard that had a USB port connected to it. When connected to the keyboard the headset was recognized as a 3.0 device but was limited to 2.1 speeds. When they connected it directly, it was doing only 2.0 speeds. That issue has appeared several times, perhaps it can be fixed with a PlayStation VR2 driver update?