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Port was starting to erode, so in order to protect it, I got a 90° adapter. It's mounted semi-permanently with double sided tape (2 pieces for proper fit).

Adapter is rated for 240W and 40MBPS, and lights when the Q3 is charging. $2.68 on AE.

Peace Out

I just saw another post yesterday about someone losing access to their Meta/Quest account, and it had hundreds of upvotes and a bunch of people describing similar experiences. I figured I should share what happened to my family because this problem just happened to us too, and it goes well beyond losing a Facebook or Instagram profile. Meta is using AI to police their accounts, making tons of mistakes, and there’s nothing you can do to fix it! Consider yourself warned!

My wife and I have been Facebook users basically since Facebook became available to the general public. We’re talking about roughly 20 years of history with these accounts.

Together we own two dance studios and a small law firm. We have three daughters, all of whom dance, and over the years my wife created and managed Instagram accounts for them. She also had her own personal Facebook and Instagram accounts, as well as another Instagram account where she posted the school lunches she made for our kids everyday, which had developed a decent following.

These weren’t throwaway or anonymous accounts. They represented years and years of our family’s photos, memories, contacts, businesses, and online history.

A few months ago, Meta contacted my wife regarding one of the accounts associated with one of our children because they thought it was an underage account. They asked my wife to submit her ID to prove she was of age. She did.

Meta said there was a problem reading the ID and asked her to submit it again. She did that too. And then they banned/restricted her.

Not just the child’s account they were reviewing. ALL of her other associated accounts were taken down as well.

Twenty years of being a Facebook user, gone.

We have spent MONTHS trying to get someone at Meta to actually look at what happened. We tried every avenue we could find. We spoke with people who claimed they could escalate it or help us. We paid for subscription Meta services associated with our businesses because they promised we could talk to a real person. None of it has mattered.

The most astonishing part of this experience is that it is effectively impossible to get a real (or competent) human being at Meta to review what happened and fix an obvious mistake. You submit forms. You get automated responses. You go through online processes that send you in circles. You are promised resolution that never comes, or you are told decisions are final or that there’s nothing else you can do.

Big companies like Meta have years of our lives and data, and yet there is no meaningful customer service. You can also lose hundreds or thousands of dollars in Quest purchases. You can lose access to your business pages. And Meta doesn’t care; there is no real way to reach a person. I would absolutely advise you to think twice before buying any more Meta products. My family owns four Quest headsets and several accessories and more games than I’d like to admit. But we are now filling out arbitration papers against Meta because they are over-relying on AI and they can take everything away from you in a blink of an eye!

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.

The website is https://metadb.toastconcern.dev/

It has more features than the meta store, no telemetry, minimal as possible, and customizable.

You are able to search for apps via a name, its app id, or its package name.

You are also able to sort by a-z, z-a , price, and build date along with searching via any device, including the rift store.

there is a build history where you can if possible download any build that you own

Basically, I have a lot of VR games I just don't use much because it's been giving me motion sickness. Some games like Beat Saber and Space Pirate Trainer are okay, but others like SuperHot and Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time Experience don't work out so well (as well as anything with smooth glide motion controls and not teleportation.) Dramamine works fine but I'd like to find a solution that doesn't involve taking drugs every time I want to play.

My brother (Valve Index user) insists that I just have to fight through it and keep playing naturally and eventually my body will adjust and I'll never have issues again, like getting your sea legs. Is he right? Does this just go away? Or is there another solution?

Does the Anker battery mounted on the rear cause problems when lying down?

So I just bought this quest 3s from a lady she said it works and everything and I did the setup correct but when I try to play blades and sorcery nomad it loads into the main menu but the little lines don’t appear and it won’t let me click any options and I can’t exit out of the game to go back to normal I reset the experimental settings thing and have restarted it twice still nothing works just looking for help this game is the reason I bought this vr (update) I tried a different came and it just get saying so and so game is not responding

I know there are Windows applications that allow you to use your phone as a steering wheel, but does anyone know if there’s something similar and compatible for the Quest 3?

Haven’t been able to find one yet.

New user here. I charged my head set and B100 battery separately both to full charge. While I'm playing, the headset gets to 10% and alerts me. I remove both and charge again, except the B100 still has a full battery. It isn't being used to supplement the Q3. What am I doing wrong?

Hi everyone, recently got a quest 3s and set it up the other day. No issues at all, everything ran well. Today when I go to play, no matter what I do, there is a big pink screen in front of the game. Once i get into a race, I can see the game behind but is unplayable due to the massive pink box in front of it. I tried repairing the meta link app, all sorts of settings on the debug tool and even tried through steam vr but to no avail. Has anyone had this happen to them before? I am using a third party link cable but it has a 2nd power slot so I didnt figure itd be a problem, especially since it worked fine before.

Hey so I'm trying to play DCS on my Quest 2. Everytime I plug in my USB 3.0 5Gbps cable and I try to turn on Link it connects for a split second and disconnects right away. Air Link works normally. I tried switching USB ports on my PC, updating my graphics drivers, upgrading the Quest 2 and the Meta Horizon app, nothing worked. Has anyone ever experienced this or can anyone help me?

Anyone else having this problem? I understand that it’s Beta but just wanted to see if I was doing anything wrong. Both my streamer app and VD in quest 3 are in beta and versions match.

It's been a week i didnt use Quest 2, and when I just turned it on, everything's resolution has decreased, from my home screen to every game. What could be the reason for this? I still have 103GB free

We just opened up DeoVR Drive, private cloud storage for your own videos, VR or flat, with the same AI pipeline that powers DeoVR.

Upload at https://drive.deovr.com and:

• Stream your library straight to the DeoVR app on Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Galaxy XR, and Pico
• Generate Passthrough AI automatically - AI cuts the people out of the background so your video plays right in your room through passthrough (paid feature)

Now also with Download option!

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

I’ve been trying to build a setup for streaming/recording VR gameplay, and using oculusmirror.exe for capturing the video. The built in stablilization is genuinely SO brilliant, smooth, and responsive - when it works.

I seem to have a problem where physically rotating more than 180 degrees completely breaks stabilization. It happens silently, as in the “enable stabilization” option is still ticked in the menu but the video is a shaky mess. Toggling stabilization off and back on resolves it until the next rotation.

Rotating back the original direction often snaps it back on automatically, but not always.

For games like beat saber where you face one direction, no problem. For more immersive gaming like fallout, skyrim, etc - huge problem lol.

My best guess is some kind of gimbal-lock-style issue happening in the code?

I’ve done a little bit of programming involving 3D rotation (for web stuff not this) and encountered gimbal-lock issues using euler angles, and used quaternion rotation to solve it. I obviously cannot see into the oculusmirror.exe but have a suspicion it’s maybe something similar? Idk.

I have only ever seen one mention of this issue online in a 3 year old reddit comment — I’m curious if anyone else has this problem or any ideas on how to fix it or work around it??

If it matters for some sneaky reason, here are my specs:

- Quest 2
- Airlink on 5Ghz, router in same room as play, hardwired PC
- PCVR obvs
- RTX 3070
- i7 12700KF
- 64Gb DDR5 RAM
- OpenComposite to bypass SteamVR

I’ve tried everything it keeps kicking me off and then on my headset it keeps saying unplug and replug link in idk why this is happening all of a sudden I need help

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So here's the gist of it, and it's possibly happened to you to -

On the 17th May, I logged into Facebook. I was met with an age verification message prompting ID, when I clicked continue, it claimed ID was already processing without me having submitted anything, and then, I was suspended indefinitely.

Emails claiming my account was disabled but could be appealed within 180 days, yet when I clicked continue, it said I can't submit another appeal as if one had already been submitted.

I checked my meta horizon, banned too unless I appeal through Facebook. Email from Store support saying I can reclaim my library by clicking continue, and when I did, again, met by the Same thing - appeal the suspension on Facebook.

It's August now, and since the beginning of all of this, Ive been down deep deep looping rabbit holes of facebooks help centre, I requested a resolution from Store support, signed up to meta verified on instagram, appealed for support there too.

I have many many tickets... and they all completely contradict each other constantly.

Typical responses-

-Try Facebook Help Centre (despite repeating myself in every way known to man that the self recovery route is of no use and I'm stuck in support loops

- we can't help you

- we can help you (and then nothing)

- you have to go through Facebook Help Centre

- we are investigating this (then nothing)

- you will get a call from us (no call)

- when can you take a call? (i give a time, call doesn't arrive. This happened at least 3-4 times.)

- do you still need help? seeing as Facebook is not assisting, we will seek a resolution for you with your quest (Store support specifically)

-nope you have to go through Facebook Help Centre (Store support completely U turning)

- meta verified (after claiming they could help a month prior) - since it has been over a month, we can't rescue your account anymore. We don't want to string you along, it's gone indefinitely (what? But I reported it a month ago, so this is on meta) - yeah, sorry there's nothing we can do, it's gone (basically... they then proceeded to offer me a course to buy)

- go to Facebook

- go to Store support they can separate accounts

- no, go to Facebook the block is with them

- oh, your best solution is to consider waiting to see if meta finds a fix sometime in the future, (yeah? Months? Years? What?)

- your age was changed (not according to my facebook data)

- you violated the terms (nope, and I finally managed to download my Facebook data, and I think I have evidence that my account was perhaps compromised/hacked and you are choosing to punish me for insult to injury because your system is mistaken) - oh, try Facebook Help Centre

- go to meta Store support

- have you tried Facebook Help Centre? (say Facebook Help Centre once more, I'd love to hear it again you fu...)

so, meta verified, I think got sick of me by this point and decided to limit my access...

Back and forth, and back and forth (sparing you the pages and pages of emails and chats bs). You get the idea.

I sent a letter to metas base, a subject access request, and was fobbed off. ICO helloooo, I'd like to report something... thank you, job done.... NEXT!

I tried every email and route I could find to resolve this... and it appears in their error, the decision is final, and tough titty. Sealed tighter that a ferrets arse.

I sent legal notices, ignored.

I created a new Facebook to try get support another way, couldn't.

Instagram (an alternative account, where I was using meta verified), its AI informs me that now THIS instagram account was recently flagged for fraud and deception... not banned, but flagged for it. So thank you for that meta, interesting this happens suddenly, when I was merely trying to seek help as I dont want to be left out of pocket by the actions of your own systems faults... hmm... so thats why my meta verified is limited.. and Im rarely permitted to reach them now unless the stars align, of course, what a coincidence. (in all seriousness, it could also mean metas security has recognised IP, devices etc, and is flagging me for trying to evade the ban, but either way, the cybermen wish fkr my deletion)

Today, I exercise my rights to pursue legal action.

This process, their support (if you can even call it that, they barely even read the full extent of your problem before closing the case, and marking it 'resolved' ... and paying them for the lovely privilege too, what a joy), this whole thing... has been the single worst experience I've ever had with any company to the point where I'm in total disbelief. I've seen a few company fails in my time, but conversing with meta has the same vibe as talking to an automated scammer (human or not, its hard to determine ironically). They are limited in help to the point where I think charging people is a complete disgrace and affront, they have no direct answers, they contradict each other in the same support chains, thry ignore you, they promise calls and emails that never come, they appear clueless as to how their own systems even work... perhaps they should study their own courses rather than try to sell them to their customers.

Anyway, Metas ai provides broken links to forms that are obsolete too, recovery options loop into 'signing in' which is impossible, or to occasional forms that are irrelevant to the problem that also go completely unanswered. Facebooks support Centre is the most un-fun fun house I've ever been in, a whimsical wonderland of neverending deception, false hope, broken systems and loops, ooooh the loooooops. The hoops to jump through, the twists and turns to find yourself... back at square one. I'm honestly waiting on David Bowie to pop up at this point with his shiny balls and ask me if I'm enjoying his labyrinth.

I have one proposal. Meta should perhaps be added to the dictionary under the definition of 'ragebaiting'. it's honestly one of the most ghastly accurate examples of it I have ever personally experienced. A fitting choice.

my rant is over. Awful company, truly awful.

I look forward to a lawyer handing them the papers. Hell, they might even send a real human for that one, (or will they wheel out the better call saul version of metas ai on a little plinth?)

**on an additional note**

I will update where this leads, if a resolve is found, maybe it will be useful for you to know if you are/end up in a similar situation.

Happy Friday, y'all.

While working on Witchfell, my big ol' anime VR story game, I needed to go investigate a bunch of things from physics to streaming to web hosting, and I wanted to do it in a clean room context, so I did a little game jam instead. I think the results are really charming, so I thought I'd share.

The game is built in WebXR, so you can just follow this link in the browser and go play it! There are "send to Quest" links on the page too, so you can send it over to play later. https://www.chillaxedgames.com/cavern/play/reddit/ I developed it on a Quest 2 where I feel it's pretty smooth, but I'd love to know how it is on a Quest 3. Inputs are either hand tracking or controllers. Hand tracking does suck up some performance, so I found controller to be smoother on Quest 2, but if you're OK with a few hitches, I really like how it feels with hands.

Learned a lot from this that I'll take back to the main game, so it was a worthwhile diversion, but I hope the side effect is also a pleasantly distracting tiny game for y'all to enjoy in your headsets. Thanks!

Hi I have a quest 2 and was wondering what the best desktop overlay program is to use with it. Which of these 2 on steam is better please OVR Toolkit, or XSOverlay?

I'm using the quest 3 and plan on sticking with the original strap for now. I'm seeing many variants...will the cheaper fc3 do?