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Meta Quest features

Nexus on your headset: OSC, friends, avatars, media, and device tools in one app.

Get it on Meta Quest

Tester access

On-device speech recognition and the speech service are currently tester-only.

Core​

  • Native Android app (Quest) wrapping the Nexus UI, fullscreen WebView with the VRChat API and OSC/UDP handled natively in Java (no CORS issues, session stored privately)
  • VRChat login with 2FA (TOTP, email code, recovery code), plus native web login window
  • Nexus account system: create account, sign in, recovery email, Discord account recovery, password reset, logout
  • Role system (owner, admin, moderator, tester, member, custom seasonal roles) with badges, and an owner-only "view as role" preview bar for testing what others see

Home / stats​

  • Home panel with your VRChat status at a glance
  • Nexus statistics: live community presence and your own footprint
  • Leaderboard: most time spent in Nexus (playtime ranking with medals)
  • Marketplace: spend Nexus Coins earned from playtime (items, seasonal shop, IAP coin purchases, owned/restore tracking)
  • Promotions: discover VRChat groups or promote your own (applications, moderation)
  • Help / FAQ panel

Social​

  • Friends: full paginated friends list with live status, trust ranks, low-trust warnings, last-seen
  • Friend detail: profile, current location, public avatars
  • Friend requests: accept / decline
  • Friend folders: sort friends into your own folders (create, rename, delete, picker)
  • Where is everyone: online friends grouped by world/instance, your location on top
  • Bulk unfriend: select mode with smart-select (offline, not seen in 6 months, visitors/new users), favourites warning, progress bar, rate-limited and cancelable
  • Mass invite friends to your current instance
  • Sort friends, add friends

Avatars​

  • Avatar library: your uploads and favourites, one-tap Select to wear, favourite star with folder picker
  • Recent avatars: what you have worn lately
  • Discover avatars: search VRChat's public avatar catalog
  • Favourites: VRChat's real favourite folders (worlds1-4, avatars1-6) with rename, move between folders, remove
  • Community: share and import avatar favourite packs (publish, import from URL, share-pack export/import)

Worlds​

  • Discover worlds: search VRChat's public world catalog
  • Recent worlds
  • World cards: author, occupants, join, copy instance link, create-and-join, private / group / friend+ instance types
  • Instance tools: players in your current instance (with the Nexus "N" detection via Who's-here presence), invite any online friend, request an invite, invite message templates
  • Group calendar: events from your groups, featured and followed

Groups​

  • VRChat groups: your memberships, search, member counts, descriptions, posts, active group instances
  • Group moderation: audit log, bans, unban, kick, close instance, members with roles, role toggling, dashboard for every group you moderate
  • Group promotions with apply / moderate

Chat​

  • Global Chat: talk to everyone in your age group (server-enforced age bands, one-time age submission)
  • Typing, replies, edit, reactions, mentions, unread badges, mute users, reports and moderation queue, message search, jump-to
  • Instance awareness: "here now" quick-add, friend activity feed

Chatbox & OSC​

  • Magic Chatbox: 30+ integrations composed into one chatbox line over OSC
  • You & status: novelty art (built-in art library + custom), personal status messages, custom text templates with live {tokens} and tap-to-insert palette
  • VRChat: time in world, Who's here (Nexus) with owner alert and privacy-first instance hashing, your avatar, avatar parameters, friends online, window/app activity, invites waiting, alerts (join/leave), Nexus stats, friend activity
  • Media & fun: music display (Device / Spotify / Last.fm / Discord sources with progress bar), synced lyrics (.lrc), chatbox games (tic-tac-toe, connect four, hangman, minesweeper, snake, 2048, wordle)
  • Live: heart rate (Pulsoid / HypeRate websockets), weather (geocoded, with icons)
  • Time & date: clock, date, countdown, stopwatch/timer, moon phase, session uptime
  • Headset stats: battery, worn detection, volume, refresh rate, device uptime, Wi-Fi, thermal, RAM, storage
  • Styling: frames, decorations, separators, fonts (bold, italic, circled, fullwidth, squared, mono, strike, underline, brackets, sparkle, stars), text case transforms
  • Presets: saved parameter/preset sets, duplicate, rename, thumbnails, preset scheduling by time of day, preset sync (auto-apply when a watched VRChat user is in your instance, revert when they leave)
  • Order editor: drag to reorder integrations, collapsible categories
  • Auto-send with live preview and test send
  • OSC routing: multiple targets, default 127.0.0.1:9000, per-route enable
  • Avatar parameters panel: every parameter on your current avatar with values
  • OSC monitor: live incoming OSC log from VRChat
  • OSC Scripts: visual block-based automation (set param, hue cycles, emission, pulses, ramps, height, reid, conditions), run/stop in background service, saved scripts

Voice​

  • Speech to text: on-device voice recognition (sherpa-onnx model download) feeding the chatbox or translator (tester only currently)
  • Speech service with push-to-talk enforcement options (tester only currently)

Media apps built in​

  • Movies: stream movies & TV in an in-app browser with pop-out/dock, zoom, padding, ad blocker, gamepad on-screen controls for ROM/emulator games, watch-party mode (host/join with code, synced playback, party audio over the network, mute management, member list, banned handling)
  • Discord: built into Nexus (native activity window, pop out, reposition, bring back)
  • Spotify: built in (OAuth login, pop out, what you're listening to feeds the chatbox)
  • Music: search and play music in-app with playlists, Spotify import, cache, downloader, native background player
  • Now playing: read via notification access (MediaSessionManager) with fallbacks
  • Screen audio capture for watch parties (media projection)

Device​

  • Headset panel: battery, charging, worn state, volume, refresh rate, thermal, RAM, storage, Wi-Fi
  • Notification access for media reading, battery-optimization exemption
  • Android auto-backup of your session

Nexus account extras​

  • Coins, usage time tracking (starts/stops with app usage), auto-backup of Nexus data, manual backup/restore as file
  • Onboarding first-run guide
  • Themes: dark/light, accent themes, background picker (images/videos), theme effects (starfield, nebula, meteors, sky, sakura, aquarium), density (compact/comfortable), AR mode toggle
  • Invite/notification toasts, click effects

Cache & logs​

  • Cache panel: avatars, worlds and users pulled from VRChat's logs, with scan modes, roster scan, copy IDs, debug tools
  • VRChat logs panel: what your friends have been doing (visit log, world resolution, clip/save)
  • Group moderation across all groups
  • Chat moderation: delete, clear queue, mute, reports, audit log

Background services​

  • ChatboxService (background OSC sender), ScriptService, SpeechService, MusicPlayerService, MediaProjectionService, NexusNotificationListener
  • Nexus usage beacon and presence heartbeat (10s) powering Who's here, leaderboard time and stats