A practical UK parents' guide to the Meta Quest VR headset — setting up Parent Supervision, choosing safe social apps, and managing immersion, friends, and casting.
อายุทางการ
13+
เราแนะนำ
13+
นักพัฒนา
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ความเสี่ยง
5
Meta Quest is a family of standalone VR headsets — currently Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S — made by Meta Platforms. The headset runs games and social apps such as Beat Saber, Roblox VR, VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and Rec Room. Meta lowered the official minimum age to 10 in 2023 by introducing Parent-Supervised accounts, which give parents a dashboard for approving apps, setting time limits, and managing friends. The hardware itself is well-made; the safeguarding considerations are almost entirely about which apps your child uses and who they talk to inside them.
Children mostly use Meta Quest for gaming (Beat Saber, Gorilla Tag, Roblox VR, Asgard's Wrath) and for socialising in apps like VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and Rec Room, where they walk around as an avatar and talk to other players by voice. Many also cast the view to a TV so siblings or friends can watch. Older teens may use it for fitness apps and immersive video. The risk profile depends almost entirely on which apps and which rooms they spend time in.
Parent Supervision
ตำแหน่ง: Meta Quest mobile app > Menu > Parent Dashboard
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Fully set up before first use
Links your account to your child's. Lets you approve app downloads, set daily time limits, see screen time and friends, and block specific apps. The single most important step.
App Age Limits
ตำแหน่ง: Parent Dashboard > Apps > Set age rating limit
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Match your child's age (e.g. 12+)
Prevents your child from launching or downloading apps rated above the limit you set, even if friends recommend them.
Friend Requests
ตำแหน่ง: Parent Dashboard > Friends > Require approval
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Approval required
Stops your child from accepting friend requests in VR without your sign-off. Friends in VR can join your child's parties and DMs across apps.
Casting
ตำแหน่ง: Quest headset > Settings > Casting
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Cast to TV or phone for younger children
Lets you watch what your child sees on a TV, phone, or computer. Particularly useful for early sessions and for any social VR app.
Account Linking with Instagram / Facebook
ตำแหน่ง: Meta Quest mobile app > Settings > Accounts
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Unlinked for child accounts
Keeps the headset's friend list separate from Instagram or Facebook so a stranger added in VR cannot see your child's wider social profile.
Blocked Users
ตำแหน่ง: Quest > People > Blocked
ตั้งค่าเป็น: Use immediately for any harasser
Blocking applies across Meta apps and across the Quest social layer, not just inside the app where the incident happened.
Set up the Parent Dashboard, app age limits, and a friend-approval rule before your child puts the headset on for the first time
เวลา: 30 minutes
Agree a written app whitelist together — single-player and curated kids' apps to start with, social VR added later if at all
เวลา: 20 minutes
Sit with your child for the first several sessions, with the view cast to a TV or phone, so you can see how social VR feels in practice
เวลา: 1 hour, repeated
Keep the headset in a shared family space rather than a bedroom — VR is very immersive and quiet supervision becomes much easier
เวลา: Ongoing
Set daily time limits in the Parent Dashboard and agree clear stop signals — a tap on the shoulder, a kitchen timer in view of the cast
เวลา: 10 minutes
If your child is approached inappropriately by an adult in VR, screenshot or record the interaction (Quest's record function), block the user, and report to CEOP at ceop.police.uk
เวลา: As needed
ตรวจสอบล่าสุด: 2026-05-16
เนื้อหาต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษ: /apps/meta-quest