When it comes to the Oculus Quest 2, you can either play your games while wired in to your PC, or you can experience games in a slightly scaled-down form natively on the headset itself, without any wires. This new update, though, lets you play your PC-powered games, wirelessly. Facebook teased the Oculus Air Link, which works similarly to in-home streaming, as you'll be using your computer to run the game, but it'll be streamed directly to the Quest 2 over WiFi. Right now, Air Link is in an experimental form, and will available soon, through the Oculus application.

We know gamers want to use Link without a wire—to experience the full freedom of movement offered by Quest 2 while playing the high-end titles that can only run on a gaming PC. That’s why we’ve been working on a new streaming technology called Oculus Air Link—a completely wireless way to play PC VR content on Quest 2 using WiFi, built on the successful Oculus Link streaming pipeline.

It's recommended that you have a 5Ghz wireless network, in addition to being within around 20 feet of your router, in order to get the best possible quality. This feature will be added in the v28 update for both the Oculus Quest 2's software and the Oculus PC program, which currently has no set release date beyond "soon". A more solid timeframe will likely be revealed in the Oculus Gaming Showcase next week. That same update will also add 120Hz support for the Quest 2 headset, an increase from the current 90Hz, allowing you to play games at a higher refresh rate, when plugged into your PC through Oculus Link.

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[SG854]

Quest 2 continues to be the best VR headset which isn't surprising with the weight of Facebook behind it.

The only real competitor at this point will be the PSVR2 which needs to knock it out of the park or be much more affordable, which will be difficult given the Quest 2's already unbeatable value for money.


Still required to my knowledge.

Quest 2 is some awesome tech. Has better motion clarity then even crt displays. Something the vast majority of lcd's and oleds struggle with.

 

[orangy57]

The Virtual Desktop developer is pretty mad about this announcement, but I'm just hyped to see if we can get performance that's any better than his solution. I managed to knock the total delay with Virtual Desktop streaming to 22ms, but beat saber is still mostly unplayable with it.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

Damn. This thing is so cool, what would you even need to hack it for?

 

[Mama Looigi]

Damn. This thing is so cool, what would you even need to hack it for?

People who don’t wanna use their real name in their Facebook account (which is the rules in Facebook)

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

People who don’t wanna use their real name in their Facebook account (which is the rules in Facebook)

lmao I use a fake name on mine. How are they going to find out? Also I don't even use it for social media purposes. So, what does hacking it do anyway?

 

[Mama Looigi]

lmao I use a fake name on mine. How are they going to find out? Also I don't even use it for social media purposes. So, what does hacking it do anyway?

They wanna hack it so they don’t need a Facebook account. Literally the only reason-

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

They wanna hack it so they don’t need a Facebook account. Literally the only reason-

:/
I mean, hey, anything to not support Facebook.....
but that's a little silly

 

[BitMasterPlus]

:/
I mean, hey, anything to not support Facebook.....
but that's a little silly

Facebook and others like Twitter and other Silicon Valley giants have been known to go above and beyond invading your privacy. I may not be the most tech savy person when it comes to a lot of the technical stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised that even if you create fake accounts they can still somehow track it back to you and your information.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

Facebook and others like Twitter and other Silicon Valley giants have been known to go above and beyond invading your privacy. I may not be the most tech savy person when it comes to a lot of the technical stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised that even if you create fake accounts they can still somehow track it back to you and your information.

oh, trust me, I know. Big tech even works with the government, so I wouldn't be surprised either.

 

[Big Man Tyrone2]

Just bought Virtual Desktop a couple of days ago.

I feel pretty dumb now.

 

[Jayro]

So basically, it's what a VR headset is supposed to be. Wireless. One of the major factors of me not getting VR is the wires, but the other is the price.

 

[KingVamp]

Yeah, VR should always be wireless, if not both.

 

[urherenow]

reminder that you can already play PCVR wirelessly from both your quest and quest 2 using Virtual Desktop (the version available in the quest store, NOT the steam one, they are different apps)

but that doesn't include games purchaced from the Oculus store, only SteamVR and a few niche titles that use openVR...

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Is there any plans for moonlight Vr? That would be awesome

ummm... isn't that what VirtualDesktop does already? What would be different about moonlight? With Virtual desktop, you can play just as if your headset was a monitor (one you can resize at will, no less), OR you can run SteamVR games, OR (for a one-time fee) use VorpX to play many other games in VR that weren't meant to be played that way. Black mesa is an example. Oh, and don't forget being able to watch 3D versions of movies, in actual 3d. On a screen floating above the moon, or with you sitting in a theater...

yea, I love VR

 

[Kioku]

Now, if only they could find a way to make the battery last at least 4 hours without a secondary battery pack.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Now that I've thought about it... Doesn't the Quest 2 run on Android at its core? Can't we just put it into emergency-firmware-image-download-device-fixer-upper mode and flash a custom ROM to it?

 

[Mama Looigi]

Now that I've thought about it... Doesn't the Quest 2 run on Android at its core? Can't we just put it into emergency-firmware-image-download-device-fixer-upper mode and flash a custom ROM to it?

You can sideload anything very easily

If you mean the not legal stuff

Probably shouldn’t go into detail here


If you mean to hack it or something
Well there’s been rumors since the month of launch that there’s been a way to hack it
But the group who made it are
Very secretive about it

 

[urherenow]

By the way, if anybody here gets thier hands on the v28 update, and happens to have the developer hub installed, would you mind looking at your quest 2 logs and grab the URL for the update.zip? All I can find is some lying a$$ clickbait that links to an older BUGGY update file, that's somewhere in the v27 range...

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

By the way, if anybody here gets thier hands on the v28 update, and happens to have the developer hub installed, would you mind looking at your quest 2 logs and grab the URL for the update.zip? All I can find is some lying a$$ clickbait that links to an older BUGGY update file, that's somewhere in the v27 range...

V28 isn't out yet, that's why you can't find it.

Probably won't launch until end of this month or middle of next.

 

[Mama Looigi]

V28 isn't out yet, that's why you can't find it.

Probably won't launch until end of this month or middle of next.

It’s out in my location
Downloaded it just yesterday-

 

[urherenow]

V28 isn't out yet, that's why you can't find it.

Probably won't launch until end of this month or middle of next.

See below. I have no idea how they control it, but they're somehow doing a trickle thing instead of a mass-rollout. My laptop has v28 already. My Desktop does not.

It’s out in my location
Downloaded it just yesterday-

Try using the hub and look at your logs for the URL? Please?