Quest 3 UI Feedback: Persistent Chat Overlay Glitches and Menu Navigation Issues
I’ve been a Quest user for a while now, and I need to voice my frustration because the software on the Quest 3 is starting to feel completely horrid compared to the flawless system we used to have. It feels like ever since Meta shifted all their excitement and engineering resources toward AI, the actual VR gaming experience has been left in the dust. Here are the specific, glaring issues making the headset incredibly frustrating to use right now: The Texting Menu Freeze: Whenever I am in a game and open a text chat to message a friend, the white Meta bar gets permanently stuck on the screen. It completely locks up the inputs. I’m stuck staring at the game but I can't access the in-game menus or play until I force-refresh the system. The only workaround I've found to unfreeze it is to constantly double-tap into passthrough and back, which is a ridiculous glitch to deal with just for sending a text. The Horrible New "Spatial" Layout: Trying to emulate Apple's Vision Pro desktop menus has ruined the simplicity of a gaming headset. What used to take one simple button press now requires clicking and navigating through multiple clunky steps just to get to one basic thing. It’s a gaming console, not a desktop, and the new interface is a massive step backward. Disabled Home Invites: We used to be able to invite friends directly into our Home environment, turn on passthrough, and seamlessly hang out together in our real rooms. Now, that feature is completely stripped out or grayed out because Meta overhauled the engine and expects us to use Horizon Worlds instead. Glitchy Avatar "Bubbles" in Worlds: When I actually do go into Horizon Worlds to meet up with friends because Home invites are broken, half the time the asset servers fail. My friends can’t even see my avatar—they just see a floating placeholder safety "bubble" or a ghost. Your device hardware is amazing, Meta, but the software is actively falling off. Stop over-engineering the menus to chase competitors and stop ignoring core VR features for AI. Please fix the multitasking focus glitches and bring back the seamless gaming features that worked perfectly two years ago. ~MPRachel 🕊️Informal announcement: Horizon Worlds WON'T actually be leaving VR
So you may have seen the formal announcement from Meta that Horizon Worlds would soon be discontinued in VR: Updates to Your Meta Quest Experience in 2026 | Meta Community Forums - 1369435 Well the good news is that the Meta CTO has had a change of heart, and now Horizon Worlds will be available as a separate app in VR. You will be able to access all existing Worlds, but won't get access to any new content 🙂: Boz on X: "ICYMI this from my AMA yesterday. We’ve decided to retain existing Horizon Worlds in VR for the foreseeable future. I know this is a bit of whiplash just a few days after we announced something different, but Horizon has some real fans in the VR community and they encouraged us" / X Meta CTO announces Horizon Worlds is staying on VR for existing games : r/OculusQuest They Changed Their Mind?! Horizon Worlds NOT Shutting Down! On Meta Quest 2 / 3 / 3s - YouTube Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all | TechCrunch Andrew Bosworth : Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on Meta changing its plan of shutting down Horizon Worlds: Community was adamant that ... | - The Times of India Meta isn’t closing down its VR metaverse after all — it’ll stay live in a limited capacity for ‘the foreseeable future’ | TechRadar Turns Out Meta Isn't Shutting Down 'Horizon Worlds' in VR After All - Tech
Worlds not available in uk
I have not been able to get worlds even though I live in the UK and everything links to the UK I have no VPN but all I get is that it isn't available but it gives me suggestions on worlds to play but can download or install on computer or vr it's states not available what am I doing wrong?Meta Horizon Worlds does not work on v79.1030 for Quest Pro
I am on build 5092736.7500.340, V79.1030 on the Quest Pro. Meta Horizon Worlds does not work on this build. When starting the app, it initially starts fine, but once it gets past the initial loading screen, it takes me to a blue rectangle on a black background for about 30 seconds, then it loads into the default world but at around 1 frame per 10 seconds. It is just a slideshow, not exaggerating. The actual quest UI and everything else is completely fine and responsive, it's just Horizon Worlds itself doing this. It's super broken on this build. Anyone else got the same issue? I did clear the cache etc too, didn't make a difference.
Why has Horizon Worlds become so buggy??
OK, I looked to see if anyone has posted about this. Over the past three weeks, this app has gotten BIG TIME buggy. I don't know if this is because of a software update or what, but it needs to be fixed because the platform is becoming unplayable. Worlds like Bunky's, Gatsby's, Earthbound Cosmic Beach, etc constantly crash and kick players out. The lag in some of these worlds is absurd - even when only 30 people are in the world, the lag makes gameplay impossible because the physics get all jacked up. The Horizon Worlds dashboard takes forever to load thumbnails, making browsing for Worlds a battery vampire. Because we're constantly getting kicked out of worlds that crash, half our headset battery life is spent on load screens returning to worlds. Other players I've discussed this with have experienced delays on rewards/points updates, or profile pics not showing up on in-world scoreboards. At Bunky's, knocking over all the bowling pins - even when the throw is dead center down the lane - won't count as a strike. Another time, I threw straight down the lane and the two right-most pins tipped over then froze, so it didn't count as a strike. The laser pistol is ungrabbable half the time, making it impossible for us to play target practice. I originally thought it was a problem with my headset and/or internet connection; but I've mentioned these issues to at least five or six other people and they ALL report similar problems in the past few weeks. A few nights ago, Bunky's crashed completely two different times, kicking everyone out. Other times, clicking to visit a world in the dashboard will make the chime, but won't actually DO anything. Yet other times, attempting to visit a world will cause Horizon Worlds OVERALL to crash and put me back at my "home virtual environment." I realize this tech is still pretty new, but this is patently absurd for a corporation this large. I've had my Quest 2 since 2023 and NEVER had a single issue playing Myst, Riven, Brinks Traveler, Ocean Rift, Richie's Plank Challenge, etc. I started playing Worlds about two months ago, and for the first month and a half, it may have crashed once. Now it crashes several times a night. So what gives??
PCVR Horizon Worlds won't launch
Since the last Oculus PC app update a few days ago I can't launch Horizon worlds through the PC link cable. I click the game (either through the quest or on screen with the mouse) and the launch screen opens but a second or so later it closes with no error message. I can still run the game on the quest without PC link and if I go to the PC Horizon worlds folder I can launch the game in pancake mode but for some reason it won't play in VR through the app. I've updated windows 10 and GPU drivers to the latest versions. Any ideas how I can overcome this? Alternatively, as it only occurred since the last update and is limited to the Oculus PC app I'm guessing the issue lies there, but is there a command I can add to the Horizons.exe to force it to launch in VR mode rather than pancake?
Make me a developer
Please add me to the early access program to help develop horizon worlds. I have many new 3d assets I'd like to experiment with as well as ideas to revolutionize horizon worlds and make it much more enjoyable and productive for all users. I will contribute endless value to Meta and am unable to do so without being given special access. Please go through the proper channels and add me to the program. (*REDACT)
