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My Meta Quest 3 Notes

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These are a collection of my notes for the Meta Quest 3

General

  • Official Sites
  • Other Sites
  • Specs
  • Performance
  • Equipment
    • VR Treadmills
    • Controller Stocks
  • Maintenance / Looking after your Quest
  • Legal / Warranty
    • Meta might be trying to get around EU 2 year warranty with Quest 3 or they already did | Reddit
      • Consider Duration from the T&Cs: 1 year from the date of purchase or delivery of the Product, whichever is later (the “Warranty Period”). If you are a consumer, this does not affect your statutory rights which may provide for longer warranty coverage.
      • You're mixing the legal guarantee (2 years in the EU, regarding the seller of the product) with the commercial warranty (1 year, in most cases regarding the manufacturer). A lot of companies only offer 1 year of commerical warranty (like Apple for example).  
      • this. also important to know: the one year warranty that apple and meta offer are voluntary. but as nightkrwlr said: it's different from the two-year consumer law rule.
      • = 2 Years warranty
    • Meta Quest EU/EEA/UK consumer right of withdrawal information | Meta Quest - Under applicable law, consumers in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK have a right to withdraw from or cancel certain purchases for a refund.
    • Meta Horizon Store Terms | Meta Quest - No meta description
  • Sign up issues
    • The signup form will only accept UK postcodes in this format SW1 1LF and not SW11LF
  • Meta keep trying to charge £59.99 for my free subscription
    • I could not get the 6 months free to work, my bank kept on wanting to charge me £59.99 even thought it said the due amount today was £0.00
      By ticking this box and clicking the Confirm button, you agree that the content will immediately begin downloading onto your device, and you acknowledge that you will thereby lose any statutory right of withdrawal (EU/EEA) or cancellation (UK). Learn more
You will be charged £59.99, including tax, when this free trial ends on 26 Feb 2025 and every year when this subscription is automatically renewed until you cancel. Cancel at any time in your account settings at least 24 hours before the end of this free trial or the next billing date to avoid future charges.By selecting Confirm, you agree to the Meta Quest Store Terms.
    • So this is what I did to fix it:
      • Created a virtual card with £10 on it to prevent my account from getting charged.
      • Using the phone APP I signed up using my information and the virtual card
      • When I get to the point it wants to test my card is valid, the amount being charged to my account is £59.99
      • A 2FA notice appeared in a browser thing, I clicked cancel on it ignoring any messages on my phone to accept or deny the transaction through my banking App.
        • This is not the link that is sent to your phone's banking app asking you to approve.
        • Never approve it and don't cancel it either.
        • I let the request in my banking app expire. It should only take 10 mins.
      • Bingo, it works
    • Research
  • Cloud Backup
    • About cloud backup | Meta Store
      • When cloud backup is turned on, Meta backs up your device's app data, such as app progress or app settings, to the cloud. This allows you to easily pick up where you left off in a game if you reinstall an app, factory reset your device or set up a new device.
      • To keep your cloud backup data safe, your app data is encrypted on the device and remains encrypted on our servers.

Q&A

Apps

  • System
  • YouTubeVR
    • Experience your favourite YouTube channels, videos and creators in virtual reality.
    • The YouTube VR app turns every video on the platform into your own virtual reality experience and reimagines YouTube as a 3D world you can explore from the inside.
    • Cannot load the app, keeps on crapping out
      • 5 Ways to Fix YouTube VR if It’s Not Working on Oculus Quest - To fix Oculus Quest YouTube VR not working issue, you will need to tweak some settings and follow additional steps shown in this article.
      • Solution
        • Setup you boundary area before you start YouTubeVR
        • You must share boundary information when asked otherwise the app will just crap out with no message.

Casting and Inputting

Remote Desktop / Productivity

Casting from Quest to (Phone|Computer)

Play PCVR Games on Quest

HDMI Input (Xbox One / SteamDeck / Playstation)

Xbox One

Play Xbox games on Quest (General)

You can pair your Xbox controller on your Quest for using with games.

  • Methods
    • Xbox One HDMI Output --> HDMI USB capture dongle --> quest
    • Xbox Gamepass
      • is natively supported on Quest 3
      • A.k.a Xbox Cloud Gaming (beta) / Xbox App
      • No Xbox needed
    • Xbox --> PC --> Quest
      • Uses Virtual Desktop App on the Quest and PC.
    • As PC VR Headset (needs a decent PC)
  • 4 Ways to Play Xbox Games On Oculus Quest / Quest 2 – Smart Glasses Hub
    • Can you also use the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 VR headsets to enjoy some Xbox gaming?
    • The short answer is that you can play Xbox games on both the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 headsets.
    • It is possible to stream the Xbox console to your headset or alternatively play Xbox games without the console by using the Xbox Cloud gaming service.

Play Xbox games on Quest (via Xbox App)

  • Playing Xbox on Oculus Quest 3 | OculusQuest | Reddit
    • I got the Xbox app running on the Oculus Quest 3. For anyone wanting to know how it's done, follow the steps below.
      1. Enable developer mode on Oculus. The requires a developer account which anyone can set up. It's super easy. This give you access to the library folder for unknown sources, more on this later.
      2. Install Side Quest on a PC
      3. Download File Manager APK from https://flashlight-clock-file-manager.en.uptodown.com/android
      4. Follow Side Quest steps to connect your Oculus
      5. Upload file manager to Oculus via side quest
      6. Get on your Oculus and use the web browser to search for the Xbox app APK and download from uptown.
      7. Go to your library, click the search bar, use the drop down to go to "unknown sources"
      8. use the file manager to install the Xbox APK
      9. connect an Xbox controller to the headset via Bluetooth setting
      10. log into Microsoft account and enjoy!
      11. It seems like a lot of steps but it only took me about 20 minutes altogether.
    • Other Comments
      • For some reason the xbox app uses low resolution (I'm using quest pro), still playable but sometimes annoying
      • Surprisingly low in my experience, but it looks like they use a low bitrate to achieve that so it doesn’t look great. There’s a custom Xbox remote play app someone made that lets you adjust the bitrate so that may help.
      • I know Xbox Cloud Gaming is officially coming to the Quest in December and I've seen some people assume that means you'd be able to remote play as well, but I'm not actually sure that'll be the case since I don't think they've specifically mentioned remote play.
      • For those wondering about the screen resize, open this menu on the oculus and hit "switch view". After that you should be able to resize windows.
      • Also, if anyone has any issues where the Xbox controller uses head tracking, press the start and back button on the controller at the same time and it will switch the controls.
      • Sidequest (advanced) can install apks directly to the oculus headset
      • FYI, there is a way easier way to do this. Just download Fluid on App Lab. Works out of the box.
  • How to play Xbox games on the Meta Quest 3 | Trusted Reviews - You can stream Xbox games directly to your Meta Quest 3, as well as the Quest 2 and the Quest Pro. Here's how.

Casting to a Xbox One

Casting from a Xbox One

  • How to Stream Xbox One to Your PC
    • You can stream Xbox One to any PC as long as they're both running Windows and are connected to the same network. Here's how to do it.
    • Page is faulty, click on the TOC links on the left hand side to navigate.

Play Xbox games on your PC

Purchases

random thing to look at later, I have not made a descicion and do not know the quality of the brands, this is more an idea holders

Troubleshooting

  • Solved: Meta Quest app - stuck on the "Pair a new device" ... - Meta Community Forums - 1153444
    • Q:
      • I'm stuck on the "Pair your headset with the Meta Quest app to continue." step during the Meta Quest 3 setup. The smartphone app tells me to "Allow permissions", which I have already done. I have "Use precise location" enabled as well. Pressing the blue "Continue" button does nothing. The Meta Quest 3 button is greyed out. I have a code displayed in the headset that I'm supposed to input somewhere in this app. What do I do?
      • My Meta Quest app is up to date. I have already installed all system updates on my smartphone. My smartphone and Meta Quest 3 are on the same WiFi network.
    • A:

      • I had the same problem. Make sure your location is turned on from the swipe down panel.
  • Solved: Passthrough turns on - can't use menu button - Meta Community Forums - 1078491
    • Q: My Oculus would not load the menu screen without passthrough on. With passthrough on the oculus would not load apps/games. The app on my phone says the apps are open on the device. 
    • A:
      Hey there! Thank you for letting us know the experience you're having with your device as this is not what we want. We do have a few users having the menu button disappear and a Factory Reset has gotten them back on track. However, I am not seeing some users not having the button load overall even when factory resetting. 
  • Stuck on Passthrough with Menus not working - Meta Community Forums - 1173053
    • Q: I'm stuck in pass through but the home music cuts in and out and I can't open any menus or nothing
    • A: With the device being stuck viewing your play area, we'd like to hard reboot the headset by holding the power button down for 30 seconds. 
  • Hand tracking not working
  • Cannot login to the Meta Quest community forum

    This call accesses the User ID platform feature, which requires certifying through the Oculus Data Use Checkup program. Please visit this page for more detail: https://developer.oculus.com/distribute/publish-data-use/. If you have already completed a Data Use Checkup, please ensure that all compliance issues are resolved by visiting the Compliance Dashboard: https://developer.oculus.com/resources/publish-compliance-dashboard/.
    • If you get this error below when you try and login to the Meta Quest community forum then you should know:
      • this is nothing you have done but is the garbage infrastructure and support team from Quest. A billion dollar corporation cannot keep their own API key updated and then when it needs swapping takes nearly 2 weeks to fix. Meta need to change their support team from wherever they have outsourced it to.
      • This is a common occurrence
    • Solved: Login to user forum problems | Meta Community Forum
    • Developer account data use checkup. | Overclockers UK Forums - Has anyone with a dev account had this pop up when trying to log into the meta forums
  •  not authorized to relay messages to the server that reported this error
  • Meta Quest app - stuck on the "Pair a new device" screen - Meta Community Forums - 1153444
    • Q:
      • I'm stuck on the "Pair your headset with the Meta Quest app to continue." step during the Meta Quest 3 setup.
      • The smartphone app tells me to "Allow permissions", which I have already done.
      • I have "Use precise location" enabled as well.
      • Pressing the blue "Continue" button does nothing.
      • The Meta Quest 3 button is greyed out.
      • I have a code displayed in the headset that I'm supposed to input somewhere in this app.
      • What do I do?
    • A:
      • Make sure your location is turned on from the swipe down panel.

 

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