Updated
Updated · UploadVR · Jul 3
Discord Launches 2D Quest App With 1-Month Nitro as Crashes Drag Store Rating to 3 Stars
Updated
Updated · UploadVR · Jul 3

Discord Launches 2D Quest App With 1-Month Nitro as Crashes Drag Store Rating to 3 Stars

3 articles · Updated · UploadVR · Jul 3

Summary

  • Meta Horizon Store now offers Discord as a standalone 2D Quest app, adding text and voice chat, friend livestream viewing, and direct first-person VR streaming without the old PC casting workaround.
  • 1 month of Nitro is included for users who download and sign in by Sept. 30, though some reports say existing Nitro subscribers do not receive an extra month.
  • 3-star early ratings reflect a rough launch: users report bugs, hitches and VR game crashes, especially when using the new streaming feature.
  • UploadVR said streams looked fine to viewers, but tests crashed Asgard's Wrath 2 and TMNT: Empire City during loading and Deadpool VR in heavy fights, suggesting Quest 3's 8GB RAM may be a bottleneck.
  • Meta and Discord had already linked Quest and Discord accounts in December, and a newly spotted permission hints at deeper multiplayer session integration still to come.

Insights

With Discord's known security issues, how will Meta protect its Quest users from exploitation within its immersive VR ecosystem?
After Horizon Worlds' failure, is Meta's Discord app an admission that VR's future is a utility, not a destination?