Facebook is down, along with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus Quest 2

Oculus Quest owners claim they can't play while Facebook is down.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Quest devices are currently down.

All of the companies are owned by Facebook and are experiencing a major outage of their shared online infrastructure. The services have been down since 12 p.m. EST. 

WhatsApp users are getting trapped in an endless “connecting” loop, while Facebook is refusing to load completely. The Oculus Store and online games such as Rec Room are also out of service. Many users over on r/OculusQuest claim that they can’t even use their Oculus Quest VR headsets.

“I can’t use mine,” user Lending_ear said in a thread about the outage. “was using it perfectly fine and then my area suffered a power outage so Wi-Fi dropped. Turned headset off because I couldn’t play multiplayer.”

We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

— Oculus (@oculus) October 4, 2021

Later in the same Reddit thread, user welshman1971 claims the games work fine, though they did not test whether the outage affected multiplayer games. 

While it seems to be a case-by-case basis as to whether or not Oculus Quest owners can actually use their devices, most are saying none of it is working right now.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.