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Nicholas Sutrich

EXPLAINED: I finally figured out why no one can hear me in multiplayer quest games - The Real Truth

Holding my hand over my mouth while wearing a Meta Quest 3 with a BoboVR S3 Pro head strap.

This past weekend, I was playing Forefront with a large group of friends. The game finally made it out of beta and launched v1.0 a few days prior, so I needed to reinstall it to ensure I didn't run into any weird bugs. Oddly enough, this caused more strife; suddenly, no one in the game could hear me, and nothing I did seemed to fix it.

It wasn't until I quit the game that a friend reminded me about app permissions. Duh! The Meta Quest runs Android, which means each app has to request permission to sensitive information like location, cameras, and microphones. Sure enough, I went into Forefront's app permissions, and it had no permission to do anything other than run on my headset.

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