Meta XR headsets are very cheap for the performance they give. Unfortunately they require a Meta account and one can assume as much data as legally possibly is sent back to the advertising company.
For years now, since the Quest 1, those Android devices have not been rooted except for some specific version number of the Quest 2.
This recent work https://github.com/FreeXR/eureka_panther-adreno-gpu-exploit-1 makes the latest headset with a rather recent update (but NOT the very last ones, so be cautious!) rootable.
Actually, those steps are the ones necessary to recover from a hard brick (re: the device is unusable because you did something you shouldn’t have as root).
The actual process to root the device is simply running a few
adbcommands (so a prereq is having Developer Mode enabled).Once you have ran the exploit, your root escalation is temporary until the device is rebooted or you take additional steps to persists your root privileges (thus, potentially leading you towards a hard brick).
source: The docs
I get that; the whole reason I want to root it is to FAFO tho. So I’ll wait until the worst I could do is need to factory reset it. lol