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Nothing about the quest has ever worked well, I suspect if this were ever deployed it would actually save lives by getting in the way of actual warfare.

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I have every version of the Quest that has been sold, and it became VERY clear, around the time the Quest Pro came out (and John Carmack left not so peacefully [1]), that nobody at meta actually uses any of these daily. And, all their QA testing obviously starts with a device reboot, clearing all the since-quest-2 bugs that exist when you put the thing on your face after letting it sit a day.

[1] "Make better decisions and fill your products with “Give a Damn”!" https://daringfireball.net/misc/2022/12/carmack-facebook.tex...

I also had several of them (2, 3, pro). Same experience. I worked in the org for a time myself too. You are right that the qa is terrible. Those people don’t even bother addressing feedback from internal posts.

The latest update makes it harder than ever to use. Like, it looks better, I see that. But whoever designed the new UI clearly doesn’t actually use one. For example, the battery level isn’t in the home screen UI anymore. You have to go into settings to see it. Battery only last a couple hours so it’s pretty critical to keep on top of.

I must say I have not touched mine definitely in 2 years or more. The product is just shameful.

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