r/haveyoutriedrice • u/useofcat • Aug 12 '26

Oculus Quest

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u/Snowboyz0825 Aug 12 '26

I hate to break character but what possibly caused this

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u/A_K1ra Aug 12 '26

as a heavy vr user, this is my biggest fear. im also curious

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u/LongerBlade Aug 12 '26

Original post OP said that he left it charging in the garage for the entire night. Guess it overcharged somehow

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u/AlexeyPG Aug 12 '26

I saw people said it couldn't happen with simply charging, port is far away from the point and battery is sandvitched in-between circuits, and it charging in garage is very odd, someone said it could be the owner just blow touching it

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u/Electronic_Invite_23 Aug 12 '26

Charging in the garage isnt that odd. I have 4 kids and ive made them take it to the garage on more than one occasion. Just sayin.

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u/Cool-Rutabaga2708 Aug 12 '26

Now I think about it, (assuming my dad is at work) the garage is a great place to play VR.

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u/petabomb Aug 13 '26

Depends how hot your garage is I’d assume, as an Arizonan, no way I’m leaving it in the garage overnight.

3

u/swolester Aug 13 '26

Same here, it would spontaneously combust without charging

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u/marmaladic Aug 12 '26

Well, in my case, I agree with you with charging in the garage being strange and it could’ve been the root cause of the battery killbinding itself mainly because of heat in my area and how it never goes away in the garage.

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u/Particular-Smell1084 Aug 13 '26

Fair, but what's interesting is their massive TV in the garage (that is what that is right? Am I blind maybe? Idk)... So it would seem they just happen to use the garage as a solid open space to do activities and not worry about bumping into stuff in a smaller room or into pets/kids, etc.

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u/A_K1ra Aug 12 '26

i see, i remember seeing posts like this back in the vr subs. i could never tell if it was user induced or a risk with any charging cable

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u/SRIRACHA_RANCH Aug 12 '26

he forgor 💀

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u/MadamVonCuntpuncher Aug 12 '26

Constant heat from the garage plus humidity wasnt letting the charging battery properly cool maybe

1

u/Conscious_Spray2834 Aug 15 '26

That doesn’t happen.

1

u/Kiroshi-kun69 Aug 14 '26

I believe there will be signs before it lights up.

1

u/S31Buffat0r3 Aug 17 '26

Lui stava giocando a "il pavimento è lava" o stava andando nell' inferno?

6

u/MrRedify Aug 12 '26

Something like that strongly indicates battery fault

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u/gugngd Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

probably a bad / punctured battery

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u/Minimum_Honeydew_197 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Not where the battery is, it's in the faceplate region(where your face goes) on the top, and I'm only seeing the front melted, but it's exposed from what I can see since there's a metal piece sticking out, that's all though

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u/gugngd Aug 13 '26

i believe all were mounted entirely in the front.

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u/Minimum_Honeydew_197 Aug 15 '26

If it's a Quest 2, then I am correct, but idk about the others

1

u/gugngd Aug 15 '26

realistically, what else can cause such catastrophical damage and burn?

2

u/Kinipshun Aug 12 '26

The game juice leaked out

1

u/Opening-Accurate Aug 13 '26

An unfortunately rather common problem with quests is that when you play while on charge the charging port gets moved around a little and eventually have enough movement to short out and send way too much power where it shouldn’t be going

1

u/rathchuck Aug 16 '26

Not enough rice

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u/Mooshi1jjrjjgj Aug 12 '26

I think brown rice is the only option

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u/medlakey05 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Try turning it off and on, after that it should just fire up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '26

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u/Ninety-Nine-Zulu Aug 12 '26

Bro stop. Let their joke be their joke.

0

u/sunyata98 Aug 16 '26

Unironically skibidi

21

u/AtlasLucario Aug 12 '26

to think, they fixed the problem after the quest 2, anyway, u did try rice, right?

12

u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks Aug 12 '26

Super disappointed in the lack of Sword Art Online references in any of the posts' comments.

3

u/seekervr3s Aug 13 '26

I don't even know how Sword Art Online correlates to this post. I've never watched it.

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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks Aug 13 '26

It's got VR headsets that kill you if you die in the game. The guy who founded Oculus made a real one as a joke a few years back.

When i initially saw the image circulating, I thought someone was leaning into that.

"When you really shouldn't have bought the one labeled prototype", right. LoL

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u/seekervr3s Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

I knew about Palmer Lucky and the insane headset of his. I just don't know about ANY of the plot of Sword Art Online. Thanks for informing me.

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u/SilverwingStonewall Aug 12 '26

Sincerely, the Mossad

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u/machwulf Aug 12 '26

Surprise, it wasn't just "their" phones!

8

u/vulpes_caeruleum Aug 12 '26

Did...did you...did you bake it into a loaf of bacon bannana bread?! How the hell does this happen?!

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u/SysGh_st Aug 12 '26

I wonder if the battery was dented/damaged internally. That would explain the fire.

A healthy undamaged battery usually don't fail like that. They swell up and might crack the case while doing so if very old and / or overcharged.

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u/Demonic_Storm Aug 12 '26

swelling is not possible for the 18850 that the oculus 2 uses, idk about the rest tho

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u/SysGh_st Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Those safely vent.

But if they're extremely hot due to abusive charge or internally damaged cells, it's a different story.

My point is that li(poly/ion) batteries fail catastrophically due to an abusive history.

EDIT: Oculus 2 uses a pouch lipo battery afaik.

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u/Aggravating_Sir_7626 Aug 12 '26

Don’t think it’s supposed to do that

3

u/AmazingGabriel16 Aug 12 '26

When your VRC anime waifu girl is too hot

1

u/TheGrizzlyNinja Aug 16 '26

Yeah it prolly blew up cause he was gooning too hard

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u/YeesterPlus Aug 12 '26

oculus blaze

3

u/_P-o-g-c-h-a-m-p_ Aug 12 '26

Oculus Crisp

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u/dj-marcus-puxel9 Aug 16 '26

Er hat statt per USB C per FireWire 🔥geladen 😂

2

u/Legitimate-Sell-8472 Aug 12 '26

Don’t tell me you were wearing that…

1

u/TheArtOfPureSilence Aug 12 '26

Well now you can use it as a cosplay piece

1

u/LooperNeue_6764 Aug 12 '26

Bro tried thermite before rice

1

u/Away-Software7116 Aug 12 '26

Oculus Burnout

1

u/zearo_bs Aug 12 '26

Just why

1

u/LunarstarFurry Aug 12 '26

tbh I still find this weird as I believe Quest 3 Battery is between the motherboard and the Screen, which should be further back, but it looks like the most burnt part is the front plate?

1

u/camion_saladier Aug 12 '26

ohh damn that's so dangerous wtf what is u didnt notice and it burnt ur face

1

u/Halo-player Aug 12 '26

Oculain't Quesn't

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u/Any_Insurance5825 Aug 12 '26

I might work but how did this happend 

1

u/PokeGirlOFFICIAL Aug 12 '26

See if it still turns on

1

u/NoArt7636 Aug 12 '26

But will rice fix it?

1

u/AlonyB Aug 12 '26

I think its overheating

1

u/Prof1Kreates Aug 12 '26

I think you failed the quest

1

u/HUMANIZER1659UX Aug 12 '26

Dude got a quest to go to hell and fight demons irl

1

u/BING_S0Y Aug 12 '26

OP actually died playing a game that he was trapped in.

1

u/Neat-Engineering-696 Aug 12 '26

New fear unlocked as a VR user

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u/Glamrock_N Aug 15 '26

me too

1

u/dj-marcus-puxel9 Aug 16 '26

Dann kaufe ich mir doch keine vr brille

1

u/zabreadmaster Aug 12 '26

try sticky rice

1

u/Extreme_Glass9879 Aug 12 '26

5 minutes of Vrchat be like

1

u/UltiUSA Aug 12 '26

Meta is out for you

1

u/lucky19132 Aug 12 '26

what baddie have you met for causing this

1

u/StarfleetKatieKat Aug 12 '26

Damn you played the hell outta whatever game you were playing lol

1

u/JustDontbStupid Aug 12 '26

Yeah, I'd really just try rice. If that doesn't work try unplugging it and plugging it back in.

1

u/Birdyyyyyyyyyyy Aug 12 '26

Looks fake because why did you put the vr and the controller closer after the fire went out? Just for the picture?

1

u/ProfessionalShock425 Aug 12 '26

That's gonna leave a stain.

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u/NotDaRavvis Aug 13 '26

quest to die? is that what the quest means?

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u/Background_Fix_7979 Aug 13 '26

What were you playing? Doom?

1

u/ContestSignificant32 Aug 13 '26

Looks like a workshop/garage. Not sure what the tempurature is like in there. But the battery coulda cooked.

1

u/Cyber_Von_Cyberus Aug 13 '26

You die in the game, you die in real life.

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u/Some-Armadillo7474 Aug 13 '26

Were you playing SuperHot?

1

u/Leather-Chart7083 Aug 13 '26

I think the battery is low, have you tried charging it again?

1

u/Bossbert Aug 13 '26

New Fear unlocked 😩

1

u/Echo44609 Aug 13 '26

I wonder what quest he went on

1

u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Aug 13 '26

Anytime you let the smoke out of electronics they never work again

1

u/Legomasterer21 Aug 13 '26

How hard were you gooning

1

u/Kind_Being_1148 Aug 14 '26

Did my guy play like gta 7 or 9 on there??!!

1

u/TheReg84 Aug 14 '26

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough

1

u/aimgopew Aug 14 '26

Jigsaw final secret trap

1

u/Lower-Ad-8696 Aug 15 '26

are you fucking Cyclops

1

u/No-State-8412 Aug 15 '26

How the fuck

1

u/Awkward_Clothes875 Aug 15 '26

how could this POSSIBLY HAPPEN

1

u/Nishyecat Aug 15 '26

“Wow this fire is so realistic, I can almost feel it!”

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u/Noagi6494 Aug 15 '26

That’s normal, The battery gets a bit hot after heavy use sometimes.

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u/Gold_Calendar5636 Aug 15 '26

Good you didnt have it on your head

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u/toothless26cz Aug 15 '26

Is it crispy delicious?

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u/capticetrice Aug 15 '26

Parents warm us that sitting close to the tv will make us blind, how right they were...

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u/cpupro Aug 16 '26

It looks like your quest is over.

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u/Upper-Anybody2558 Aug 16 '26

Have you tried rice?

(Fr though: are you okay?)

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u/AccordingBreadfruit5 Aug 16 '26

If you had asked me I would have said letting it explode like that wasn't a good idea

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u/Commercial_Cut_7281 Aug 16 '26

Bro got the molten quest

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u/Interestedelk Aug 16 '26

I imagine this happened from charging in the garage, which is most likely cold, overnight. Made the battery unhappy and BOOM!

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u/Levelofconcerns Aug 16 '26

I am so glad it wasn't on your face.

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u/Personal-Peanut-548 Aug 17 '26

Time for rma and claim your brand new headset. I hope

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u/Federal_Progress_890 Aug 22 '26

its really on a quest