VR is super cool and something everyone needs to experience in their life time.
However when you're hanging out with friends or family and sharing your headset with them;
since the headset can only be on one persons face at a time only the individual playing it is able
to see what's going on in the game. One of the great things about the Oculus Quest 2 though
is Oculus took this problem into consideration when designing the Quest
2 and made sharing what the player is seeing with everyone else a pretty simple thing to do.
When you first set up your Oculus Quest 2 you're prompted to install the Oculus app to your
smartphone or tablet and log into your Facebook account to complete the initial set up. Soooo with
that all done you should be ready to begin casting game play from your Quest 2 to your tablet or
phone. You of course need to have your tablet or phone connected to the same wifi network as your
Quest 2 as well as have your devices bluetooth and location services enabled. You then tap on the
little casting icon here on the upper right in the Oculus app and then it should show your Quest 2,
the wifi network it's connected to and just below that your tablet or phone and the wifi network
it's connected to. If your location and or bluetooth is turned off the app will prompt
you to turn them on but as long as everything is on you should see the green check mark here and
that your Quest 2 and phone are connected. You can then press this big blue button that says Start
and the Quest 2 will begin streaming what the person wearing the headset is seeing.
Now if you have several people all wanting to see what the player is looking at; only being able to
cast to a phone screen may not quite be adequate enough. So a second way to cast your Quest 2 game
play is to go to www.oculus.com/casting on your computer or laptop. As of the making of this video
the only web browsers that are compatible with this are Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Sooo
Firefox, Safari, Opera and users of other web browsers you're outta luck on this one.
You have to use Edge or Chrome for this. You'll have to log into your Facebook account, meaning
the account your Quest 2 is associated with, and then the person wearing the headset is going to go
to this arrow icon over here on the right which is the sharing icon, and they'll select Cast and then
Computer and once they click Next here the headset will begin casting to your computer.
This last method is my preferred method and that is to cast the Quest 2 to our TV. As far as I know
you must have a Chromecast device in order to do this. Other streaming devices like Roku, Apple TV
and FireTV are not supported at this time. You can do this from your phone using the Oculus
app by tapping on this drop down here and then selecting your Chromecast device
from this list and then tapping Start. If your Chromecast doesn't show up on this list
then tap Other Devices here and it will refresh the list and your Chromecast should then pop up.
You can also begin casting to your Chromecast from the menu in the Quest 2 headset very much like we
did to cast to a computer. You go to the Sharing icon here, click on it... then click on Cast.
On this list you should see your Chromecast. Select it and click
Next and now everyone in the room can see what the person wearing the headset can see.
Ok... that was a quick one. You know what to do if you found this video helpful and if you'd like to
check out some of my other videos like my review of the Quest 2 you can watch that right over here
or YouTube should be suggesting something else you might be interested in
down over there. Ok... that's it... have a good one.