Now one of the huge advantages of the Oculus Quest is that it is a standalone
VR headset that allows you to play virtual reality games wirelessly. However, it takes
a graphical hit in order to do that because it's essentially running off a mobile phone processor.
PCVR games on the other hand are running on your PC, so you get awesome graphics,
you get high frame rates and some hugely engaging worlds that give you hours of gameplay.
So, playing PC VR games on your Oculus Quest wirelessly gives you the best of both worlds!
So it's time for another Tech Tip Tuesday where i'm going to
take you through the four steps needed to get you set up quickly
so you will be running your first PC VR game wirelessly on the Oculus Quest in no time at all.
Welcome to my Tech Gear... Let's get into it!
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So let's just get straight into the steps that you need to do to get your Quest set up. The
first thing you need to go and do is buy Virtual Desktop on the Oculus Quest itself. So go into
the app store of the Oculus Quest and just buy Virtual Desktop. It's $19.99 USD at the moment.
Oculus have gone and crippled the version of Virtual Desktop that is available in the
app store so it won't play PC VR games out of the box. What you need to do is install
the Virtual Desktop patch that is available on sidequest. Installing the patch from sidequest
is pretty much the same as installing any other game from sidequest. Make sure that
the quest and the pc are on and that you've got the cable connecting the quest to the PC.
Start the sidequest app and search for 'Virtual Desktop'.
You will then see something called 'virtual desktop patch'. Click on that, and then click on
'install to headset'. Once that is finished, which won't take long, it's now all set up and done.
So in order to have done those steps you would have had to have set up a sidequest
account before, and set sidequest up on your pc, and the quest. If you haven't done that before
then go and look at my step-by-step guide of how to set up sidequest. Go through the easy
to follow steps in there and then come back here and follow the steps i just went through.
So now that we've got the client set up on the oculus quest headset itself, we now need to set
up the server or the streaming app on the PC, and that's really easy to do. All you need to do is
go to vrdesktop.net, which is what's running behind me, and download the streamer app from
that main page that you see behind me. Once you've done that, install it, and then run it.
What you'll be presented with is a single page app and that really is all there is to it. The only
thing you need to do on that main page is insert your oculus username on the top left hand side.
Now if you don't know what your oculus username is it's actually really easy to find. In the oculus
app that's on your phone, if you click on the picture of your account which is normally on the
top left, and then on the next page it will show you what your username is underneath that same
picture. So that username, just copy to the top left, and that's the server side of it all done.
So now you're all set up and ready to play your first PC VR game wirelessly
on the oculus quest headset. Now before we do that it is assumed that you've got some
PC VR games already installed on your pc from either the oculus rift or the steam vr stores.
If you haven't got either of those set up yet then be sure to check out my video of the easy
step-by-step guide of how to get both of those set up. So go over there. Follow those steps.
Install some games, and then you'll be ready to go to the next step and come back here.
Now that you've got all your games set up and ready to go we're ready to play our first game.
First up you need to make sure both the quest and your pc are on and they are connected to the same
network within your house. Now you need to go and run the vr streamer app on your PC.
Then on the oculus quest headset, select virtual desktop from your app library. This
will start the virtual desktop app and will automatically find the streamer app that is
running on the same network on your PC, and it will automatically connect to it. Once that's
completed you should be looking at the screen of your PC within your oculus quest headset.
Now, if you click on the menu button on your left controller, this will bring up the virtual
desktop menu and you'll see 'settings', and a few other things. If you select 'games' it
will show you the list of PC VR games you've got installed on your PC. So either the rift games,
or the steam vr games. Just select the game you want to play, and voila it loads! we are done!
You are now ready to play your first PC VR game wirelessly from your oculus
quest headset. Do let me know in the comments down below how you got on.
What was the first game you tried? What games are next on your list? By the way,
i can thoroughly recommend Half-Life:Alyx if you haven't tried that game already.
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