5540

Reviewing the threads above, but any other hardware that’s a “must-buy?”

5541

Consider the Elite strap, but you can wait and see how comfortable you find the included strap.

Also you can use a 3rd party cable, but the official one is ideal if your budget swings that far, given it’d be a bit lighter.

5542

I just picked up a Quest 2 and ended up buying this cable. So far it seems to work fine. 16 feet is plenty to give me room to move near my PC.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MZFS4SY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

In general though I’m super impressed with the hardware. I was around for the birth of this generation of VR and worked on all the various generations of Rift hardware starting from the first dev kit, but this is just a totally different level. Untethered VR with inside-out tracking is really the Holy Grail.

5543

Thanks all. I have the 64G version and a link cable on the way.

Time to read up on side loading and more advanced stuff.

5544

The hardware is mature enough that you mostly don’t need to sideload. I’d only sideload to do:

  • Virtual Desktop wireless VR streaming. (Note: VD desktop streaming works without sideloading. And VR streaming from desktop works with Oculus Link. You only need sideloading to have both.)
  • Beat Saber mods. These are both really cool and too much trouble to be worth it. Every time BS updates, your mods will break and you’ll spend an hour figuring out how to update your library and make everything work again.
  • The weird, wonderful world of indie VR apps. There’s some interesting stuff out there, but you can also sample a bunch of this stuff using WebVR through Firefox Reality or Oculus’s native VR web browser.
5545

For my engineer brain, it’s hard not to jailbreak new toys if that’s an option.

Also, I want to use bluetooth headphones and that seems to only be available as sideload/dev mode?

5546

VD new version :

• The ability to stream PCVR games is now part of the official app in the store, no patch needed!
• Added multi-account support in the Streamer app (Windows only for now)
• Screenshots taken on your Quest are now automatically transferred to your desktop (Windows only for now)
• Added voice-over for notifications
• Added Wi-Fi speed information, runtime used by game and GPU name to the Performance Overlay
• Changed Sliced Encoding and Microphone Passthrough to be enabled by default

5547

Good question. I’ve never even tried this, but it’s a good idea. I Frakenmodded my Quest 1 (mounted the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap on it), so I’ve got built-in headphones. But when I had corded ones, the cord never failed to be a pain. I’d invariably catch on it when trying to swing a saber or whatever.

5548

Woah, awesome.

Woah, awesomer! (Why hasn’t Oculus done this? Getting screenshots off the device is a huge pain.)

5549

This what I came across. I have a decent light pair of over the ears headphones.

5550

I’m guessing they want you to post them to Instagram/Facebook.

5551

Wait, so I only need to purchase Virtual Desktop off of the Quest 2 store and then I can play Steam games wirelessly on the Quest 2 (if my router can handle it)?

5552

Yep.5

5553

Every time I connect my AirPods to my Quest 2, games start lagging. I haven’t tried it for a month or so, not sure if that’s been fixed.

5554

That’s what I’m worried about. I have a set of pluggable ear buds as fall back.

5555

Some releases

Today, Hyper dash, also on Oculus (crossbuy)
The Climb 2 in March 4th
And in April Star Wars Pinball VR, with 8 tables

5556

You still need to install the Virtual Desktop streaming software on the PC as well of course, but yeah this makes things a lot simpler.

5557

Done! It seems to work ok with my 5Ghz Orbi router that is only Wifi5.

5558

Thanks for the info!

I’m probably the only person that is super pumped about the pinball, but man I’m super pumped. I thought Zen had abandoned VR pinball – maybe this means they’ll bring the real tables to VR as well.

5559

Wow, 24 hours in and this is my take away. Walking around in VR may kill me.

I can handle everything else, but motion and movement is a show stopper.

I picked up cheap copy of Star Trek Bridge Crew which is pretty damn cool.
Vader Immortal and that’s it so far. Waiting to see what the kid takes a fancy for.