r/sidequest

Good evening, everyone!

I’ve been working on an Android device management tool with a strong focus on Meta Quest headsets (Quest 2, 3, and 3S...).

The goal is to give owners more control over their own devices through ADB, with features such as:

• 📦 Package management and debloating
• 📁 File management and operations
• 📡 Telemetry-related controls
• 💻 Built-in ADB terminal
• 🔧 Device management tools
• ⚙️ Additional tools focused on customization and control

I built it as a way to make common ADB-based tasks easier to manage from a single desktop application, while giving users more visibility and control over their Quest, to your device be really yours and not from the "big brother"

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ok this has been rattling in my head for weeks so i'm just gonna say it

i run a local AI agent on my Mac (it's basically Hermes, long story, long thread, don't @ me about the name) and one night i was like — what if instead of being a chat window in a tab, this thing lived in my house?

like actually lived there. had a body. remembered where i put things. could see the room when i'm not wearing the headset. could whisper something when i walk past the kitchen.

i checked X, reddit, github, youtube, the whole thing — nobody has done this. like, genuinely nobody. there's "AI assistant" apps for Quest, there's home robots, there's Meta's research demos. but an agent LLM that has a persistent body in your home mixed reality + spatial memory + lives there as a presence? nothing.

so i started building it.

what's shipping in v1 (right now, on my Quest):

• a single emissive sphere, ~12cm, floating at eye level
• pure Meta Spatial SDK 0.13.2 (Kotlin, AppSystemActivity, VRFeature, Scene.enablePassthrough(true))
• 90MB APK, sideloaded via ADB, not on the Quest Store yet (and probably won't be, see below)
• runs fine, thermals are clean (~46°C SoC after 4 min of passthrough), battery OK while USB-tethered
• code is one HermesAgentActivity.kt file, ~100 lines. that's it.

the long-term plan (what i'm building towards):

• spatial memory anchored to the scene mesh (MRUK). "Hermes, where did i leave the keys" → it remembers where you put them yesterday
• a body that changes color/intensity based on what it's saying (warning = amber, calm = teal, listening = white)
• STT local + TTS cloud so you can actually talk to it, not press buttons
• multi-manifestation presence (sphere when idle, hologram when focused, glifo on objects when it leaves a memory there)
• eventually: a second body in your phone or smart glasses so you don't have to wear the Quest

why i'm posting this here:

1. i want to know if i'm alone in wanting this, or if there's a tiny community of people who'd run this in their house
2. i need people to tell me which feature to ship first. spatial memory? always-on voice? multi-room coverage? i can't decide alone
3. i'm not putting this on the Quest Store. this is a side-loaded open source thing. it's about your house, your data, your agent. nobody else's cloud gets to be in the loop. that's the whole point.

what i need from y'all:

• tell me which feature above matters most to you (or one i didn't list)
• if you've ever done OpenXR/Meta Spatial SDK, hit me up — i'm flying blind on a lot of the engine plumbing
• if you think the whole premise is dumb, also hit me up, i want to hear that too before i go further

github repo incoming this week once i clean up the readme. for now i'm running it on my own Quest in my own apartment in genova and it's weird and a little bit magic.

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