Chaplin
5199
I played a fair bit of Skyrim VR on PSVR in early lockdown (thus unmodded and on an inferior platform). There is a lot of “wow” moments that come from the VR experience. I found just going into random caves or dungeons to be an amazing experience. Scale, positional audio, and especially scale do amazing things when dungeon crawling.
jpinard
5200
Yes! That would be fabulous. I’ll be doing everything I can to ameliorate my obstinate eyeballs.
Chaplin
5201
Any chance another G2 user can get in on this action? I don’t have a printer and I heard a “whomp whomp” sound in my head when my fiance tried out the G2 the other day and reacted by saying it was like looking through binoculars. I then spent some time bouncing between PSVR and the G2 and noticed while the G2 looks much better, the PSVR is less of a porthole view. I am guessing that is because I can telescope the PSVR closer to my eyes.
jpinard
5202
What are the chances of the following might work?
- DisplayPort extension cable: 30 ft.
- Powered USB-C extension cable: 30 ft.
For non-flight sims I need the extra space. I actually had to define my office holding the head piece right against the walls to get it to certify.
LMN8R
5203
I just got my Oculus Quest 2 elite strap + battery in the mail today! First impressions are really positive - everything from the case to the build quality seems solid. Hopefully they figured out whatever was causing they to crack.
The increased comfort and convenience is immediately noticeable when I put it on, but I won’t have a chance to use it more until tonight.
If anyone is interested, you can now get G2s from the Microsoft store with a 2 day turnaround.
Hey ffriends, question. I’m finally interested in getting a VR thingy, specifically an Oculus Quest 2 with its link cable. My 2080Ti has a USB-C port on it, is this what’s intended to work with the OQ2 and its USB-C cable? Like, I’ll be able to plug it into the video card and go?
Sorry to ask but I’ve not found clear information on this. Thank you!
Quaro
5206
The USB port on the video card is irrelevant. The quest uses regular USB it’s not using a video connection at all. It’s just using USB to send a raw data, which happens to be a stream of video of the game. So you can plug it into the video card or any USB 3 port on your computer and it works the same.
The 2018 TI works great that has the latest NVENC video encoder.
Well I ask because my EVGA card has a USB-C port called VirtualLink or some such. Would that be what I plug the OQ2 into? I don’t have another free USB-C port.
Quaro
5208
The Quest doesn’t use VirtualLink at all, but it will work because the USB-C port on the 2080 Ti can also work as just a normal USB-C port too, giving you one more USB-C port. But you could plug a different device into the video card and plug the Quest into a motherboard port and that works. Or you can buy a cable that has USB-C on one end and a regular USB connection on the other and use that in a regular USB port (preferably a USB 3.0 or 3.1 port but it will work at lower quality even on 2).
TLDR is it all works, but because USB is finicky, sometimes you want to try different USB ports on your computer to get the most reliable performance.
Or just use Virtual Desktop.
Virtual Desktop is a YMMV solution. Cable Rift Link is not. Unless you’ve got some flaky-ass MB, it’s more or less gonna Just Work.
Glad to see you’re entering the PCMR arena of VR, Brian. Your 2080 is good enough!
I hope so, thank you all! This is the game that finally broke my back.
USB-C is a physical connector. USB 3.x is the data standard. USB-PD is the power delivery standard.
A USB-A (traditional) port can run at USB 1, 2, or 3 speeds. A USB-C port can run at USB 2 or 3 speeds.
USB-C is the only connector supported for USB-PD because of the higher wattage involved.
USB3 defines several speeds, which may or may not be supported by all ports. These are referred to in various ways, such as “USB 3.0” or “USB 3.1 Gen 1” for 5Gbps speed or “USB 3.1 Gen 2” or “USB 3.2” for 10Gbps speed.
For the Quest or Quest 2 you can run USB 2 or USB 3 using a USB-A or USB-C port. USB-PC - and therefore USB-C - is nice to have since it enables the Quest to charge while it’s being used on the PC. You can run off the Quest’s internal battery though.
Oculus Link Compatibility
Matt_W
5213
USB 3.0 Type A ports are backwards compatible with USB 1/2 ports and connectorwise the reverse is true. But you can’t plug a USB 3 cable into a USB 2 port and get USB 3 speeds. USB 3 Type A ports typically (though not always) have a blue interior. For Oculus Link you need a USB 3 port and cable.
Yes, the USB-C port on the 2080ti will work well with Link.
Thanks for the help y’all, gonna buy into a Quest 2 soon. Yay!
Wrong. Note the Oculus support article I linked above states you need a “USB cable” only. Oculus added support for Link over USB 2 almost a year ago.
True but there’s no way you’re using that tiny cable that comes with a Quest 2 for anything lol! :)
And if you’re buying a new cable, better to go with a 3 over a 2 I reckon.
Has anyone tested the cables at the higher Link bitrates, as I recall the one concern with USB 2 cables was bandwidth restrictions?
Definitely! But if you just want to give it a try (almost) any USB cable will do. It’s also sufficient to use a USB 2 cable for SideQuest app sideloading. I never use the cable, preferring to stay wireless using Virtual Desktop.
