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I am on my fourth Q3 since May of this year.
Like you, I use my Q3 for fitness daily (Supernatural) and I work up a pretty good sweat. It appears the sweat is drawn in between the two pieces of the "facial interface" by capillary action where it collects, concentrates into a corrosive, viscus "goo", and eventually infiltrates the headset proper through the snap holes devouring circuitry and causing failures in hand tracking, charging circuits, etc. WARNING: This happens very quickly if you store your Q3 hanging by the head strap (face down)! Meta is aware of the issue but, so far, has had pretty lame advice: wear a headband, play in cooler room, wipe down your headset. Here is my advice:
- Get the silicone facial interface, find a comfortable setting, and glue the two pieces together sealing any gap where sweat can hide.
- Consider using plastic wrap between the facial interface and the headset for fitness applications. If you can get the "saran" stretched over the lenses smoothly, I have found the visual aberrations produced are no more egregious than those caused by sweat getting my eyes.
- Always detach the facial interface and clean it and where it connects to the headset after every workout.
- Never store your Q3 hanging from the head strap. This is just begging gravity to hurt your Quest 3.
I am sure Meta is planning to do something about this - replacing these units (even with refurbs) has got to be very bad for their bottom line.
@pk165271 if you have a halo strap you can also use the headsets without the facial interface, so it floats just in front of your eyes and the sweat can evaporate from your face without getting into the headset.
@pk165271 This was an image of an older strap and most halo straps will work, but if you want a battery strap to balance the weight of the headset and have a good range of headset adjustment the KKOBVR Q3PRO as it has dials on the side to increase/decrease the distance to the face.
KKCOBVR Q3PRO 10000mah Hot-Swappable Battery Head Strap Compatible wit – kkcobvr
KKCOBVR Q3 Halo Strap Compatible with Meta Quest 3/Quest 3S Enhanced C – kkcobvr
