Good morning everyone, I just spent more than an hour in Meta's horrendous submenu system to enable the dev mode on my Quest.
For context: used SteamVR but felt like a cable would be more stable. Didn't want to use the Meta Link app since it already gave me a death wish when I used it a while ago.
I turned to ALVR
Says it needs the dev mode active, no problem, usually it's a simple hidden button to click, nothing complicated...right ? rrrrightt ?? RIGHT ?
Here I am, connecting to the account, going through at least five steps just for the friggin' connection, then creating a developpment team because that's a requirement, then even more time spent on downloading and connecting to the Meta Developpment Hub which is useless for me but needed to access my Quest's parameters, because a button in the damn thing was too simple, of course
THEN, learning I need Bluetooth to connect the app to the Quest, my PC doesn't have Bluetooth and Meta apparently considered people like me don't exist. SO I need to install the Meta Horizon app (so not even something dev-related anymore, what's the point of their "security") on my phone, and there I can't access my headset's parameters because...well, I don't know, they need wifi and other stuff that is done. Oh also they need to geolocalise my headset for some reason, not at all data gathering. Trust Meta.
More than an hour wasted on Meta's atrociously designed web services, just as shitty apps with unclear usage and added just to slow you down, all for an inexisting stake, it's MY headset, I should be the only one choosing if I want my damn dev mode or not
If y'all want to save your sanity, don't buy a Quest. Attractive price hiding future pain, every time I need to go to my profile or any Meta stuff, I want to throw everything away after having shot it twice, and that's after being ten minutes in their mess of a software. You buy something that you can't use in any other way than Meta wants and they voluntarily make things a hassle to find (example: look into the account parameters of any Meta-owned social network, finding ANYTHING is hard)