Sorry mate, turning them off is not a "fix".
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Correct. Closing your right eye is the fix according to official sources.
Ahh I was wondering if this bug was just me when I saw it last night! Spent a bit thinking one of my contacts had gone wonky! XD
On the "glitch when jumping" issue, you're not talking about what I refer to as the pupil dilation effect when looking at very bright, up close light sources, are you? I never considered that a glitch...I considered that to be an attempt to approximate how the pupils will react to bright lights--or how a polarized lens would work. It's never bothered me, and I never considered it a bug. I actually see this as the same kind of mechanic that's visible when you're in your SRV on the dark side and you turn off your lights...within a second the unaided visibility of surroundings gets a little brighter because your SRV lights causes pupils to shrink. As for orbital lines, I turned those on for the purposes of a test, and they were constantly in both eyes until I came close enough to orbit, then disappeared. The only new behavior (I guess 'new', given I haven't used orbitals since 2016) is that which ever orbital as your "focus" will show as "bolded" or "thicker" until you look away from it. Not sure what the point of that would be (but then I haven't seen a point of orbital lines to begin with, which is why I keep them off).That’s very interesting - I’ve had the momentary view glitch when jumping since June 2021, with a Quest 2 + GTX 1080 followed by RTX 3070ti, and then with my current RTX 4070ti + Quest 3 (also upgraded the motherboard twice, new RAM, CPU etc.), and I can easily reproduce the brightness difference problem during fuel scooping by rotating my ship so the star is on one side of me (the effect is subtle but definitely there). Holo-me has been messed up since Odyssey came out (the head and shoulders zoomed-in view isn’t, and half the controls are cut off if you try it from a concourse terminal).
Are orbit lines good for you in both eyes if you fly within 3.5Ls of a landable body?
I think it’s great if you’re not seeing these issues but I’d also request anyone who says “it’s all fine for me” to have followed the reproduction steps in the issue reports before saying they’re not getting the problem on their computers
No - the glitch on jumping is exactly that; as per the issue report it is a brief repositioning of the player’s viewpoint for just a handful of frames, normally it’s like part of the HUD flashing right up close to your face. The report only talks about Glide but it happens on all SuperCruise / Jump transitions, as mentioned in the many Confirmations.
As for orbit lines, are you following the steps in the issue report? When approaching a landable body do you see orbit lines in both eyes from the point where it changes from a dot to a 3D model? Orbit lines will work perfectly well if it is a non-landable planet or moon.
Really hope we get to see decent HDR HMDs reasonably soon, and that developers actually turn out to utilise it, so we can get rid of simulated iris contractions, and let our eyes do it for real -- the tonemapping in Elite irritates me more and more, since Odyssey turned it veritably bipolar. 
I, too, get the orbit/gravity "shell" curves disappearing in the right eye on approach. (Not a fan of how much thicker the lines have got, either...)
I, too, get the orbit/gravity "shell" curves disappearing in the right eye on approach. (Not a fan of how much thicker the lines have got, either...)
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Okay, I understand you now. I'm not seeing that issue at all on the HUD. As for the orbital lines, I followed the description. I tried it approaching both non-atmosphere landable bodies and ones with atmospheres. No difference...orbital lines behave as I remembered them (aside from the orbital line in focus showing as thicker). I'm not sure why my system would be working when others appear not to be. But, such is the nature of bugs, I guess.
That’s very odd regarding orbital lines! I’ve checked with my Quest 2 + Quest 3, and users of Reverb G2, Big Screen Beyond, HTC Vive, Rift S, Quest Pro, Valve Index, and other Q2/3 users have all confirmed the issue.
I found that a gas giant with lots of landable moons is a good way of seeing the issue - plenty of orbital rings to see when within 3.5Ls of a landable body.
As for the view glitch - do you have a perfect, uninterrupted view when jumping to SuperCruise? There’s not even a momentary flicker of the image in your headset? Sometimes the view can reposition to just a blank area of the HUD so the glitch is not very noticeable.
Right I gotta apologise!
Iam getting these bugs. Leastways now iam. The orbital lines are in one lense only, but it's intermittent. Sometimes it's as is sometimes it isn't. And yes near a star if l turn away 90 degrees the light dimms.
I dropped shadows from ultra to high and now they flicker. So I'll add to the tickets. Sorry for not being accurate.
Just didn't notice it before cos l have orbit lines off and nearly always fly under a star after scooping.
Iam getting these bugs. Leastways now iam. The orbital lines are in one lense only, but it's intermittent. Sometimes it's as is sometimes it isn't. And yes near a star if l turn away 90 degrees the light dimms.
I dropped shadows from ultra to high and now they flicker. So I'll add to the tickets. Sorry for not being accurate.
Just didn't notice it before cos l have orbit lines off and nearly always fly under a star after scooping.
Many thanks for taking the time to check again
With the intermittent nature of the orbit lines issue, try to keep a note of how close you are to landable planets or moons. The issue comes and goes for me depending on whether I’m within the required vicinity of about 3.5Ls.
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The only thing I notice when going into FTL is a random audio distortion, but I figured that's because I've disable sound on headset, in favor of the studio mixing board I'm using for all audio (a Mackie 12 channel). But no visual hiccups. In fact, for the heck of it, I compared what I was seeing in VR to doing the same thing without VR, and I couldn't tell any difference.
Just started using VR and have run into this when exiting supercruise, just before seeing the sun. Not during Glide though.
And running into this as well. Closing the right eye helps but that's not ideal!
I setup an 'orbit lines' binding to one of the HOTAS buttons (IIRC, settings->ship controls->flight miscellaneous->toggle orbital lines) to switch them on/off.
I'm finding out I very rarely need orbital lines anyway, which is a good nice seeing how ugly they look now. But it's nice to have the binding for when you're in doubt if you're going to hit the exclusion zone or not.
Okay, I have an update on my experience with this. I have an alt account that I created to migrate my old Xbox account to. I don't use it much...only if I absolutely need to do some things in the Bubble to help out my squadron. On a hunch, I turned on orbital lines and replicated the steps others reported and I DO actually experience the problem with that account. I switched back to my regular account and I don't have it. I don't know why that would be the case, but at least that's SOMEthing.
New issue report - https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/66782 - where the Quest 3 user is experiencing glitches (flickering, screen tearing) in one eye after an amount of time playing in performance heavy areas.
They don’t mention which eye or if it’s the same eye each time, and it’s not something I’ve experienced.
They don’t mention which eye or if it’s the same eye each time, and it’s not something I’ve experienced.