I wasn’t going to make another video today, but there is something interesting you can
do that could make some of your lives easier, so that’s enough incentive for me to share
it.
Yesterday, I posted a how-to video on the SideQuest mobile app.
If you haven’t seen it yet, definitely check it out, as it makes sideloading so much easier.
Today I wanted to show you that you can ALSO use SideQuest within your Oculus Quest & It’s
soo cool.
The benefit of this is that it’s faster than doing it via the mobile phone, and you
can stay in VR forever 😉 Just kidding…
Don’t do that
Hey everyone!
Cas here, and welcome to another VR Tech Tip.
But before we continue, let me start with a disclaimer.
Some Sideloaded content may go against Facebook’s terms, so make sure you’re not violating
anything before you sideload.
Check Oculus’s content guidelines for that; I’ll link it below.
Anyways, this is going to be a quick guide.
Let’s get started; first, if you like what we do, subscribe if you haven’t yet, as
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Let me tell you what you need for this.
1.
Your Oculus Quest headset.
2.
A device to sideload on, this can be on your PC or an Android phone
3.
A USB cable that you can use to connect your Quest to that device.
Step 1.
Install SideQuest APK on the headset Ok, the first thing to do is, you need to
install the SideQuest mobile app on your Oculus Quest headset.
So I extracted the apk file from my phone, which I linked in the description, so you
don’t have to do it.
You can download it from there with an Android phone or on your PC.
You can then install the APK using two methods.
If have a PC, it’s easy to do via the SideQuest app.
Click the ‘Install APK’ icon here and find the APK you downloaded.
Install it, and you can move to step 2.
If you want to do it via your phone, use the app called Bugjaeger.
I’ve made a tutorial on how to do that here; I’ll put a link below.
Step 2.
Turn on WiFi mode on your Quest
Now, you should have the SideQuest app inside your Quest and it’ll look just like the
mobile app.
But before it works, you have to turn on WiFi mode on your Quest.
Unfortunately, you cannot do this WITHIN the Quest due to technical limitations.
But you can do this on your PC or your Android device.
On PC On PC, you can do that easily by connecting
your Quest to your PC with a USB cable.
Allow all pop-ups that may show up in your Quest.
Checkmark ‘Always allow’ so it doesn’t keep on popping up.
Wait until the SideQuest app says it’s connected.
Then click the WiFi icon and click Connect.
Now WiFi mode is on, so you can unplug your Quest, and move to step 3.
On Phone For those who want to do it on their phone.
Make sure you’ve watched my SideQuest phone guide because you need the SideQuest mobile
app to enable WiFi mode.
Once you got it, start the SideQuest app and connect your Quest via a USB cable to your
phone.
And make sure to allow all pop-ups inside the headset.
As well as the pop-ups in your phone if you get them.
And then wait until the SideQuest icon below turns green.
Now, you can click on the WiFi icon at the bottom left, and then you can click on Enable
WiFi here.
Now if you didn’t click always allow on the pop-ups, you may get some more pop-ups.
Just allow everything.
Now you can unplug your Quest.
And move to step 3.
Step 3.
Launch the SideQuest app in the Quest headset You can now launch the SideQuest app in your
Quest if you haven’t yet, via ‘Apps’ then from the drop-down menu in ‘Unknown
Sources.’
Here you can find the ‘SideQuest’ app now.
Click to launch it.
Now there is only one more thing left to do and that is inside the headset, click the
WiFi icon at the left.
And here you have to fill out the local IP address of your Quest headset.
But to make things easier, you can just fill out ‘localhost’ here, so that automatically
picks up your local IP address.
If that doesn’t work for any reason, you can always find your local IP address under
your WiFi network advanced settings.
Now click connect, and you may get pop-ups again, you know what to do here.
And then it should connect.
Step 4.
Sideload fun inside Quest Now you can sideload all SideQuest content
inside your Quest!
You just click on a game using your motion controller, and then you can click ‘Install
to Headset.’
It’ll start installing from within VR.
I thought this was so cool because this makes stuff even easier.
Maybe I’m lazy :P
But I also found installing it this way is faster too than via the phone.
Here as well, you enable graphics settings and do all the other options within VR and
I think that is so nice if you want to play around with settings without ever taking off
your headset.
Now, that’s actually it for the guide!!!
So WiFi mode will actually stay enabled until you restart your Quest device, so even if
you stop playing for a while.
As long as you don’t shut down your device, you can just reconnect later on without having
to do step 2 again and that makes it even easier.
But it would definitely be even easier tho if we could do the WiFi enable thing without
the need for PC or phone, then SideQuest would kinda run natively on the Quest.
If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know in the comments below.
So I’m not sure whether this is intended, I am also not really sure what Facebook will
think of this.
But I have been using SideQuest ever since the start without trouble, so let’s see.
But if anything, I’m your test person so if I ever get banned by Facebook or anything.
Let’s hope not.
You are, of course, the first to know.
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Are you going to try it?
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