V81 Bug? Menu won't appear when turning on Quest 3
Recently got access to the PTC for V81, and all seemed fine. But I turned on my Quest 3 and the menu won't appear at all, even after holding down the right controller button and even testing it with hand tracking... HOWEVER... This issue seems to be hit and miss. When I was ready to give up and do a factory reset, turned my headset on and randomly the menu appeared again. It sometimes disappears if I leave my headset on standby for a while, and sometimes disappears if I turn it off and on, and sometimes just randomly appears. Is this a common bug or does anyone have any potential fixes? I have tried launching games from the app and it did work one time, despite it showing the launch and install on headset, even when the app is already installed. I understand it's a beta and could be a bug but wondering if it's just me. Also, when the menu doesn't appear, if I were to hold the power button, it just shuts down, it doesn't give me the option to reset or anything. Any help greatly appreciated 😁
Unknown Sources missing on new profile in Quest 3S after V81 PTC Update (Developer Mode Enabled)
Hi, I need help with an issue on my Meta Quest 3S. There are three profiles on the headset: 1. Owner (primary profile) 2. Secondary profile 3. My new profile (my own Meta account) Unknown Sources shows correctly on the owner and secondary profiles. But on my new profile, the Unknown Sources tab does not appear at all in the App Library. This issue started after updating to V81 PTC. Steps I already tried: - Created a new Meta account using Gmail - Logged into the Meta Horizon app with the same account - Joined / created a Developer Organization - Developer Mode is enabled in the Meta Horizon / Meta Link app - Restarted the headset multiple times - Device owner confirmed Developer Mode is still On I am wondering if this is a known bug on V81 PTC for additional profiles on Quest 3S. Any suggestions or fixes would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!Quest 3 (v81.1034) randomly cannot access the user profile menu after waking from sleep
I have some sort of random glitch when the Quest3 headset (v81.1034) wakes from sleep. Sometimes it only shows passthrough, and the menu to select which user profile to use does not appear. If I press the sleep button a few times, the profile menu appears for a fraction of a second and then disappears and goes into passthrough mode again. So, when this glitch occurs, I am unable to select my user profile to log in to the Quest 3. If I double-tap the headset to exit passthrough, it tries to load my new Immersive Home but fails to load because I have not been able to select any profile, so it gets stuck in load screen limbo: From here, all I can do is restart the headset, which fixes the problem temporarily. This glitch has happened 3 times in the past 3 days since getting the V81.1034 (non PTC) update on 21 October. I've already reported this glitch to Meta via the headset bug reporting option. UPDATE: the glitch happened again just now. I pulled the headset away from my face slightly and noticed that the user profile menu reappeared. As soon as I put the headset closer to my face, the passthrough came back on and the profile menu disappeared. I was able to hold the headset slightly away from my face and click on my user profile using the controller. Then the headset started up as normal and my Immersive Home loaded. It seems like some sort of glitch in the way v81 uses the proximity sensor when waking from sleep.
Immersive home does'nt show Instagram
Hi, i have seen videos of people using the new immersive home and using an instagram app that is stuck in the wall, it should appear alongside the mirror in the "objects" section if i'm not mistaken, i have updated to v81 in my meta quest 3, however i only see the mirror in the objects section, why can't i see the instagram window? is this happening to anyone else?
Passthrough is annoying since the last update
Hi, There's going to be some ranting, I'm sorry, but I just can't keep seeing what my otherwise almost perfect flow of using Quest 3 went into with the last update. The last update made passthrough a really annoying experience. First of all, this flying popup saying "Wow, did you know that your EXPERIENCE is running in the background? Wow, you can come back to it by clicking here, not just by double taping the headset now! But you can't just close it, because we hate you!". Now some context: I'm using Quest 3 pretty much the whole day every day, I only put it off when I'm eating or when I go to shower or sleep. So obviously I spend quite some time in passthrough mode to make myself tee, fetch a snack etc. Now this flying popup is following my view, which is extremely annoying, but it also blocks the view, so it's even more annoying when you are doing something on the kitchen, look down only to see this stupid announcement to block things that I actually need to see. Who thought that's a good idea? Do they spend more than half an hour in a headset and use it for anything else other than "experiences"? Speaking of "experiences", I use Quest 3 not only for play, browsing and using my PC in general, but also for work. The apps I use like Virtual Desktop and Immersed have a passthrough mode, so they provide only what I need from them - screens. Now after the update this is this effect of some terrible purplish washed out color, that for some reason needs to wash out my passthrough when I'm launching the app to show me its ugliness, then to be washed out again into passthrough of the app. This transition is not only completely unnecessary, but also is annoying and esthetically unpleasant. I understand that the main audience is not people like me, but could you please at least give us an option to opt out from these things in "advanced options" somewhere maybe? For a power user it feels like a slap in the face and it's definitely a huge point for me to buy a different headset next time (and you probably know which one I'm waiting in 2026 now). To not make it completely dark and angry, I'd still like to thank the devs for what they've done so far, except for these changes. Quest 3 is still the best headset for the money with a huge gap from the competition and will still be better than the one coming out next year, simply because of passthrough. So it's especially important to at least keep it on the same high level as it was, and not ruin by these stupid (probably marketing) decisions on UI/UX.
