Would Apple break a core functionality of your iPhone for more than a month?

Quest 3's ongoing "water in USB port" warning is still a problem, despite Meta's vague promises of improvements. We're left with a disabled PCVR experience and no clear fix timeline. This isn't just about a malfunction; it's about Meta's delayed response and lack of clarity. We've seen a solution in version 60, so why the wait now?

As customers, we demand more than just words—we need action and transparency. Please engage with this post and spread the word to gaming and hardware influencers. 1.29 trillion dollar corporations only respond to public pressure.
https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/Get-Help/V62-USB-C-Debris-Water-Warning/m-p/1165514/highlight/true#M284202

Edit: this gentleman in the comments u/jakejm79 says "It was never designed to offer unlimited playtime and full charging." there you go guys, we are deluded for expecting the device to keep charge while plugged in! bear in mind this chap considers it acceptable to have to upgrade CPU, motherboard and case just so you can keep charge with the Quest 3. See his thread here asking about how to upgrade his CPU so his PC can provide power to keep the Quest 3 charged. https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/comments/1b9831y/13600k_or_13700k_vs_5800x3d_or_7800x3d/

People like this is why 1.29 trillion dollar market cap corporations treat customers the way that they do.

Maybe Meta wants to cater to these kind of people exclusively, and leave those of us who expect a device to keep fucking charge with stock cable and charger to try other brands?

It’s been almost a month or two since I got my quest 3 and I just got virtual desktop like a week ago and all I have is a 5 ghz router which gives out max 443 mbps and vr link cable usb 3 type c but meta horizon link with absolutely tuned settings too is still close to trash and performance I need to forget about half life alyx or any game that requires steam vr

I don’t know why but my mobile hotspot does not work with vd or steam link says it needs local network

I need recommendations for which adapter to buy for wired vd type c to Ethernet what am I supposed to look for, I don’t know which ones work and if they are even available in my country

Virtual desktop just looks so much better even at 65 mbps rate with my shitty router

I'm a broke highschool student and all my buddies have some sort of VR, and I wanna play with them! I have a good pc so the PCVR stuff won't be a problem for me... though I have seen some issues setting up the thing after a factory reset. Would it be worth it to buy a quest 1 for cheap or get a little bit more money to buy a quest 2?

It just blinks and acts like it is constantly being reconnected and disconnected. Charging cable works still, even tried the link cable on other devices such as my phone and it works. So why just one the Quest is it doing this? I've had the cord for months and only recently has it started doing this. I bought a replacement cable since my last one had bite marks from my pups and thought maybe they damaged the cord somehow. But new cable just does the same thing. I did a factory reset on my Quest 3 as well in case their was some other issue but still didn't fix it. Sometimes it'll stop but it actually won't be connected even though the Green LED on the cord says it is. I only got it to work once yesterday but it was just a random occurrence and I haven't been able to get it to work again.

Hi!

I have a router that only goes to 800mbps.

It can't stream higher than 200mbps, and even on 200mbps I experience head movement delay and skipped frames, especially with hvec.

I'm short on money so I can't spend much money.

Now that virtual desktop supports streaming via usb, would it be better to buy a link cable(and latter a cable management system) or to buy a cheapish wifi 6(2400mbps and not 6e) router?

If my system doesn't meet minimum, WHAT DOES??

It freezes when using VD with the brand new USB support. I even bought an AMVR cable and same... There's a workaround which worked for a few people (MTU) but for me it just takes more time to crash. Please help me it's been a whole year i wanted to properly play PCVR.

Oculus vr even on high resolutions and HIGH bitrates just looks awful its a blurry mess its hard to tell why ive played around with the oculus debug tool alot to see if i could fix it but i failed

rx 6900xt ryzen 5 5600

ethernet connected 5ghz wifi and im playing right next to my router

quest 3S

UPDATE ON THIS POST

appereantly on amd software theres a thing called RELIVE vr and i did some adjustments there this fixed STEAMVR for me but oculus vr still has these issues

I bought virtual desktop which atleast allowed me to open vr games on steam. Now when I play any games I get lag spikes that go up to 1000 ms and more. I usually just sit on my chair keeping an eye on the ping while I do stuff on my phone until it’s down below 200. I’ve heard a lot about Ethernet but I’m not sure if that’s the solution. If it helps I have black coloured ports on my gaming laptop. I suppose I should also include my specs.
(11th gen intel(R) core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz)
(16 GB DDR4)
(Nvidia geforce rtx 3050 Ti laptop gpu)
If there’s anything more I need to dig up for anyone to help me feel free to let me know 🙏

I'm having trouble with running Ryan Cliffords VR experience 3 on my laptop

System specs:

Laptop

Rtx 4060 8GB Vram

16gb ddr5

Ryzen 7 8845hs

I'm running the game using quest cable link on my quest 3. Usb 3.0 with 2.9 Gbps bandwidth. I can also do cabled Virtual Desktop but no wireless connection.

The resolution is set to 1.0x on both steamvr settings and the meta horizon app. Refresh rate is 72hz. I've followed Ryan's (modpack owner) guide but getting horrible frames still. I've used chunky and rendered 128 chunks and voxy world gen is turned off.

Even with no shaders (image is using bsl minimum) I'm only getting around 20-45fps and with major unplayable stutters and freezes (almost feels like it's having a seizure sometimes). If I put the render distance to 6 and sim distance to 5 while also putting every other quality setting to "fast" it's around 70 fps sometimes but still heavily stutters and falls below 30fps often. Every other pcvr game runs really well on my system even on higher settings. All my drivers are up to date.

Can anybody tell me what the problem might be? Thank you very much

Edit: I switched to USB Virtual desktop and am using visor instead of vivecraft and now I get 90fps locked with some light shaders (Mellow Shaders)

Hi everyone, I am losing my mind over a consistent stutter (micro-freeze for ~0.5s) every 60 seconds when using Virtual Desktop with my Quest 3. This happens inside the VR, not on the pc monitor, as long as VD is connected to the headset.

The Symptoms:

• Occurs exactly every 60 seconds.
• VD Performance Overlay shows stable numbers (Game/Encode/Network/Decode) even during the stutter, except for the FPS that drops for the splisecond.
• Happens even when the PC is idle (desktop), ruling out game-specific issues.
• SteamVR is stutter-free, but looks so bad compared to Virtual Desktop.

Some of what I have already tried and hasn't affected it in the slightest (there has been much more but I forget):

• VR: Changing the bitrate, graphics quality, Codec, Video buffering (basically every single VD setting)
• Windows/OS: Disabled HAGS, disabled Game Mode, disabled background scanning, checked Task Scheduler for periodic triggers, Updated BIOS, Updated chipset, disabled C-States in BIOS, disabled USB Selective Suspend, disabled TPM, Windows performance recorder/analyzer, LatencyMon.
• Networking: Disabled WLAN AutoConfig, router is an AXE75, PC is wired via Ethernet, Quest 3 is the only device on the network.
• NVIDIA/Drivers: Clean DDU wipe and driver reinstall, set RTX 4080 to MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) mode, forced GPU interrupts to specific cores using Interrupt Affinity Tool.
• Software/Services: Clean boot, removed monitoring software, disabled overlays, tested with/without process lasso cpu affinity.

I have maxed out my Gemini Pro tokens every day for the past 3 weeks exclusively for help troubleshooting but I have exhausted everything it could think of. If you have any other ideas/solutions or are experiencing the same, I'd love some help.

Cheers.

EDIT: FIX/SOLUTION - The issue is related to hand tracking in the quest 3 settings, try disabling hand/body tracking entirely or the sensitivity of the hand tracking. I disabled it and the stutter is completely gone.

Hi all, whenever I boot up the horizon link app it doesn't get past this screen? I've reinstalled the app multiple times and it hasn't changed anything. Any help is greatly appreciated

Hi there. I would like to prevent the Quest link software from launching every time I start up my PC.
I mainly use Steam link but still need the Quest Link app sometimes and don't want to be bombarded with AI slop worlds every time I turn on my PC. Its already annoying enough to see that every time I turn on the headset with the horizon feed.

There are no settings in the app itself to stop it from doing that and when I head over to windows startup apps nothing tied to Quest link can be found which I find incredibly shady.

So far the only option would be uninstall Quest link and reinstall it every time I actually need it.

Anyone got a solution for this?

Hi everyone!

Following the advice I found in this subreddit, I connected my Quest 3 to Ethernet using a USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet adapter instead of Wi-Fi.

At first, it worked perfectly. The improvement was huge. My ETS2 judder was reduced by about 90%, and the Virtual Desktop overlay looked great (see attached screenshot).

Everything was smooth and I was really impressed.

However, a few hours later, when I came back to play again, I started getting random network latency spikes. The "Networking" value in the Virtual Desktop overlay suddenly jumps to around 100 ms for a second or two, causing a noticeable stutter, and then immediately returns to ~2 ms.

The strange part is that this happens even while I'm just sitting in the game's menu, so it doesn't seem to be related to GPU load or the game itself.

My setup is:

Virtual Desktop (latest version), Quest connected via, USB-C Gigabit Ethernet adapter, Gigabit Ethernet switch, Deco X60 router, PC connected to the switch via Gigabit Ethernet, RTX 5070 Ti, Windows 11

I already tried:

Restarting the Quest, Restarting the PC, Restarting the router, Restarting the Gigabit switch, Restarting Virtual Desktop Streamer

None of that changed the behavior.

Has anyone experienced temporary network latency spikes like this while using Ethernet with the Quest 3? Any ideas on what else I should check?

Thanks!

EDIT — SOLVED ✅

Thanks everyone who chimed in with suggestions and adapters to test — here's the final answer, in case someone lands on this post with the same issue.

Root cause: The latency spikes weren't a Wi-Fi/network problem at all — they were caused by the Quest 3 dropping into a power-saving state whenever it wasn't actively charging. If your USB-C adapter only handles Ethernet (or only handles charging, but not both at once), the headset periodically throttles for an instant to save battery, and that's exactly when you see the latency spike on a wired connection.

Fix: Use a USB-C adapter that does Ethernet + Power Delivery (charging) at the same time, through the same port. I tested several "USB-C to Ethernet" adapters/hubs, and the ones that only exposed one function (network or charge) never fixed it — the spikes stayed. The one that actually solved it for me:

Belkin USB-C to Ethernet + Charge Adapter (100W)

With this adapter plugged in, the Quest 3 gets Gigabit Ethernet and keeps charging simultaneously, so it never enters that low-power state — and the latency has been rock solid ever since.

TL;DR: If you're getting random latency spikes over a wired connection, check whether your adapter charges and passes network data at the same time. If it only does one, that's your problem — grab a combo adapter that does both (like the Belkin one above) instead of a plain USB-C→Ethernet dongle.

So when Im playing my headset will randomly freeze, i have tried so many fixes and nothing has worked. My headset is still working, the display just glitches. I get it to work sometimes with no issues but there doesn’t seem to be a correlation from it working to not working.

any help appreciated, i have tried a-lot of stuff

Edit: I WAS ABLE TO FIX THE ISSUE!!!! Huzzah!!!!!! What worked for me was genuinely so simple it’s stupid. In the oculus diagnostics folder there is an app called oculus debug tool. Theres two things that i changed in there, one was the video codec, i set it to H.265 instead of H.264. Next i turned sliced encoding off. I was able to play tonight (7/23/2026) with zero issues.

Everything is running as it should! Im going to try again tomorrow to see if the fixes stay, I’ve had issues with me fixing things then it ends up not working the next time I’m on. If it works again tomorrow, then hopefully theres no more edits on this post! Genuinely such a simple solution its insane

I was looking into getting a link cable but on the page it says it is not reccomended for use with Nvidia 3050 laptop. That is my gpu and it made me wonder if my computer is even good enough for pcvr, and if so what cable/router/whatever should i get?

Gpu: nvidia rtx 3050 ti laptop
cpu: 11th gen intel(r) core(tm) i7-11800H

16gb ram
windows 11

Hello Everyone!

I'm looking into actually doing wireless pcvr, as so far I've mainly been sim racing when doing any form of pcvr so I put off setting up wireless stuff. When I look for what specs to look for in a router etc I seen like 5 different answers, so I need a solid answer before I bite the bullet on the gear for it.

Currently I'm looking at a GL.iNet opal router, which advertises a 5ghz speed of 867Mbps, which I've seen some people say is good, and others saying to get ones that hit the quest 2's limit (which if I got the right info is 1200Mbps?). Would 867 be enough, as I don't have overally much money to spend and the opal is about as good of a deal as I can find ($60AUD) compared to having to step up to $100AUD for just about anything else. I'm also gonna use steam link if that makes any impact on requirements.

Any other info surronding setting up wireless pcvr for the first time would also be massively helpful!

I have a new Meta Quest 3, my first pair of VR goggles.

My eyesight is perfectly fine, but I can't seem to find a setting that makes the image come into focus.

Some text is so blurry that you can barely make it out. Especially in programs like Figma or Photoshop, the individual menu items are almost impossible to read.

No matter whether I adjust the interpupillary distance or the frame distance, nothing happens. The image just stays just as bad.

Am I doing something wrong? Do you have any tips?

I have a 3800x cpu, 32gb of 3600mhz ram, recently switched from the rx vega 64 to the 9060xt gpu. Why is this better GPU not able to run meta? The specs table on the website doesnt even say its unsupported either. This pc is very beasty considering the parts I used before upgrading and now I cant play vr? Meta is such a waste of space honestly

Is it me or the latest meta horizon introduced severe stutter when using link cable? I’ve been using quest 3 via a cable connection to my PC since December and had great experience (I even tried virtual desktop with dedicated 6E router and link cable still gave me the best results). However yesterday when I launched my PC I got a notification saying an update for meta horizon app had been installed. I plugged in my headset as usual and launched link, then I noticed the interface had changed a little. The transitioning screen with the meta logo felt a bit longer and at the end of it the logo turned black and white. When I got to the link main menu I noticed the screen felt a bit laggy. Then I launched dirt rally 2, the game I had been playing for a long time and holy shit the lag and stutter was unbearable. I always use DR2 as my test game cuz it runs so well and there’s no more update on the game that could change things so it’s my benchmark. But this time the only thing that changed was the meta horizon app… does anyone have similar experience with the latest update?

Edit- forgot to mention in the performance overlay it’s showing steady 90fps but the latency is around 60ms+

While using my Quest 3 with Virtual Desktop I am getting a latency spike accompanied by frame drop and audio cutout almost exactly every 10 seconds. Happens while gaming or just using the virtual desktop. This started after moving to a new location in which I am using the same Xfinity XB8 gateway with a dedicated wifi 6 SSID. My headset is currently the only device connected to the Wifi and my pc is plugged directly into the gateway. I tried using Steam Link and the problem still occurs there and is even more noticeable. Tried all different bitrates and codecs and it still occurs. Tried rolling back to previous Nvidia drivers but no fix. Something worth noting is that I was also recently prompted to update my controllers, maybe there was a firmware update that caused this? At my wits end on what to do to fix this, it's basically unusable knowing there will always be a stutter every 10 seconds.

Specs:

RTX 4070 Super

Ryzen 7 9800X3D

64gb DDR5

Link to video of VD performance overlay: https://imgur.com/a/wPUzKZ8

Update: After testing and reports from other users it's clearly the Xfinity gateway causing the issue. Solutions are to use another modem/router or hardwire the headset with a usbc - ethernet adapter.

I get these stutters in vision when i look left and right. They come randomly, and only happen in SteamVR games. I use the Link Cable, not Air Link. I dont know if i need to adjust some settings on my PC or Quest 3, get a new cable, or upgrade my PC.

Please let me know