Still, it's easy enough to do, and you'll find it in the Beta tab in the Settings menu of the Oculus PC app. The feature is still in beta at the moment, so you'll need to opt into the Quest's latest Public Test Channel to try it out for yourself. Thanks to a recent update, however, Quest owners can now start testing Oculus Link with regular USB2 cables, including the charging cable that comes in the box. I should note that Carmack also revealed Quest’s displays are capable of running at 90Hz, and that it could have been FCC certified at this rate - and still could be.Until recently, Oculus Quest users looking to play a bit of PC VR via Oculus Link had to use a high-speed USB3 cable to connect it to their PCs. This is why a dedicated Facebook-made dongle, which connects the PC directly to Quest, would be the solution. The idea was explained at Oculus Connect 6 by Carmack, with the bottleneck to streaming VR over WiFi being the variability in routers and network congestion. Wireless Oculus Link?Ĭreating a wireless version of Oculus Link seems to be an ongoing project at Facebook. It could even be argued that for developers alone the cable should have been USB 3.0. This takes much longer on 2.0 than 3.0 and this increases development time while slowing down the iteration rate. In Unity and Unreal when you want to test changes you’ve just made on Quest, the engine will compile the app, then transfer it over to the Quest where it is installed/updated. Why when a user orders a Quest today are they still given a relatively long cable with a convenient right angled USB Type-C connector, yet not sufficient speed for Oculus Link? Faster Development Is PossibleĪnother use case which would be improved with 3.0 speeds is development. But given that Facebook clearly intends Quest to have a console-like lifespan, did the company really not plan for future product developments that would require USB 3.0 speeds? And even if they didn’t, why didn’t they start packing in a USB 3.0 cable with every newly produced Quest once Link was finalized, or even when it was announced at OC6?
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