Meta Horizon 9+

This app is so glitchy, oculus says set up on app, app says connect to WiFi, but when I do it asks me to do it again. I can’t complete setup cause when I get to the last step which is 5 safety notices, there is no button to continue. I have never seen the Home Screen of my oculus, I used the launch from phone button to play for three minutes, then reset the oculus and after setting it up again it still got stuck, and now all I can do is try reinstalling the app. Please meta, let there be a setup button in the oculus! The second star is cause the Beat Saber song “escape” is so cool. Your welcome.
Update: apparently the problem is exclusive to the Samsung galaxy version of the app. Cure = use an iPhone. The 5 safety tips come with a cute video we MUST watch before proceeding, not sure why I HAD to watch it on an iPhone, when I had an oculus connected to WiFi and a galaxy, but the video doesn’t play on those, and until it plays, their screens just say “finish setup” p.s. my galaxy has a little no smoking symbol with no cigarette in the middle, it won’t go away when I restart the phone, and I think it means “I, your galaxy phone, do not feel like talking to the internet much right now.”

Casting is clunky. Screenshots and videos for games won’t display in landscape view, even though they’re oriented in landscape view. Will get trapped in full screen mode with no way to back out so I just have to close the app entirely (there is an “X” icon but tapping it does nothing). Games purchased by one user not available to the other user. My wife bought the oculus for me (yes I call it oculus because meta is a stupid name) and she bought several games with her profile before giving me the machine. Then I made a profile and bought games, and now we need to switch back and forth between profiles to access the different games bought by each profile. So dumb. Connecting with friends in the oculus is way more clunky than it should be. We always have problems. For example, we’ll both send invites to each other and they don’t come through for either party. Sometimes we’ll join a party and the audio isn’t working, so we have to power off and try connecting again. I never have these problems on my Xbox/PC/PlayStation.

The oculus is super fun and has a ton of potential! It has so many bugs though. I’ve had to factory reset my device twice because of bugs that don’t go away. The most recent time was because the grid (the boundary of the oculus environment) would not go away. Nothing except a factory reset fixed the problem. There have been many other bugs, those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

The app is presented to the user in a useful and intuitive way, but lacks execution. Exhibit A; the recently added Mixed Reality Camera (a feature which made me immediately re-download the app). For those who don’t know, this gives the user the capability to record yourself in your surroundings in VR, with augmented-reality capable phones (iPhone 7 Plus and up)*. This feature just doesn’t work. The app in the headset tells me to use the phone and the phone just casts, doesn’t offer anything else where everything should be. Exhibit B; the phone notifications. This feature works maybe 60% of the time and refuses to let me unpair the headset to the phone via Bluetooth when I need to repair it (I CANT DELETE THE HEADSET FROM MY BLUETOOTH), which I need to repair the system if the notification flow to the headset stops. This is a pity as this capability was added a while ago and still hasn’t really been patched. At this point this app just gives your headset a bunch of half-baked capabilities that only work half of the time. Wouldn’t suggest use after you’ve gotten past initial setup of headset.

*in the instructions it says iPhone X and up, but the supposed capability is aligned with the 7 Plus, and has been seen in other instances working as well as the new phones. In short, there’s 0 reason why this shouldn’t LOAD, not that it should work or connect.