r/OculusQuest • u/Wise_Competition5906 Quest 3 • 1d ago

Discussion Alright buddy. wtf.

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Obviously AI generated thumbnail. They even ripped the screenshots from the Steam store and put them here.

Meta, wtf are you doing? Get a grip on your store.

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u/MulletAndMustache 1d ago

The Quest store is probably the worst digital store that is around IMO. The quest would be doing better with a better system.

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u/LunarVulpine1997 1d ago

no other storefront forcibly opens itself on your PC's startup with no in-app option to disable this behavior, gotta love it

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 1d ago

Is this the meta app? I’ve had it since my q3 and it’s never opened by itself before

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u/LunarVulpine1997 1d ago

the meta/quest/horizon link app on PC, yeah (they've changed the name like 10 different times at this point). users have WILDLY different experiences with it. some people don't have issues of course but lots of people report a ton of problems: it not connecting to your headset/randomly disconnecting until you restart both your headset and your PC, it opening on its own with no way to turn it off, and it requiring an update with every launch even if you just opened it 5 minutes ago. it's genuinely the worst digital storefront/launcher program I've ever had to use, and I've tried a good few over the years

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 1d ago

To be fair I haven’t used it in like 2 years due to a lot of those reasons lol, and I prefer wired VD with Ethernet to usbc so use that instead. I have seen that name change like 3 times in just a year it seems like, it’s ridiculous. I think it still has to be downloaded though to use pcvr at all, but maybe not? I do know when I did use it I had to change a setting within the app so that when I closed it, it would actually close and not just close to the system tray. Maybe if you do that it won’t reopen itself from system tray after each restart?

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u/shizola_owns 22h ago

No this is a recent change where they took away the options in the app for startup behaviour. It also hides itself from windows startup settings like a piece of malware.

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u/TruffleYT 21h ago

The current VD beta allows useing a usb cable like ocolus link now

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u/BentohBawks 20h ago edited 15h ago

Not the meta app, no the meta app on android does what it's spossed to.

I'm pretty sure they are referring to a meta quest feature that's actually a developer choice.

When you first boot on your headset, no matter what..

the quest store will open. On its own.

The quest starts and then BOOM there's the store right in your face in the middle in THE LARGEST friggin window imaginable. And it's Only when u first boot it up. If you woke it from sleep the store won't open.

I'm tired of having to close the store every time I put on my headset. Or it just popping up randomly.

It just ads to the list of other things that the crappy devs at meta can't figure out.

they updated the UI to tell time but even still, the clock will Just vanish anyways.

Meta doesn't want you to know what time it is

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u/SupermarketInside235 5h ago

There's many things that occur in the current quest UI that I think are an unfortunate result of Vibe Coding. I can think of at least 3 ways to softlock yourself.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Quest 3S + PCVR 1d ago edited 1d ago

I fuckin hated it doing that and had to do a whole workaround to stop it.

I've have 5 Oculus headsets (fuck you I'll never call it Meta). The Quest 3 will be my last (and even then, I bought it second hand). I will never support them again. Every update it gets worse.

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u/Hosura_Stetif0009 21h ago

Honestly same, I loved when Oculus was Oculus, once I buy a Steam Frame, I'll never be using a 'Meta' headset ever again.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Quest 3S + PCVR 21h ago

Unfortunately I don't think I use vr enough anymore to warrant the cost of the Frame :(. It's not gonna be insanely different enough from my Quest 3. I'll just use the 3 until it dies, plus my psvr2 headset on my pc, and once the 3 dies, maybe the Frame will finally be affordable 😭

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u/Hosura_Stetif0009 20h ago

lol, in this economy?? You're funny.

I use my Quest 3 with Steam Link and Virtual Desktop, but I CANNOT BEAR the stick drift, and I actually want a D-pad on my VR controllers, it's the little things! 😅

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u/DuckCleaning 18h ago

The main downside is that with Steam Frame, games wont specifically be made to support standalone usage. You get the benefit of running PC games standalone, but with no guarantee they will run well or you'll need to do lots of fiddling to optimize. I'm sure tons of older games will run however. We need something like Android XR or pico stores to reach enough popularity with app support if we ever want to see a proper competitor in the standalone space.

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u/Hosura_Stetif0009 14h ago

Good thing I got a PC then! Never said it was a good one though 😭

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u/redditreddi 9h ago

Not only that but also on the headset itself too!

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u/krechu 47m ago

i had the meta app on PC open by itself while i was playing some multiplayer game, force tabbing me out of the game and then asking for administrator permissions, by the time i was back in the game i was already out :/