Some Meta Quest headsets are being bricked by a software update – but a fix is rolling out

• Meta Quest 2, 3, and 3S headsets having issues
• Applying updates means the headsets don't start
• Meta acknowledges the issue, sends out a fix

If you've decided to fire up your Meta Quest 3 for some holiday gaming, you don't want to then find it broken by a software update – but that's exactly what's happening to the Quest 3, as well as the older Meta Quest 2 and the newer Meta Quest 3S.

As reported by UploadVR, users have been hitting the web to complain after a new software patch left their headsets unusable. You can read some of the stories of Meta Quest woe on the Meta community forums and on Reddit.

There seems to be a running theme in that a lot of the complaints are coming from people who haven't used their headset in a while, and it's possible that ...