Here's some answers to some common questions for you all! 😊 Q: I can't find the Air Link option, where is it? A: META HAS MOVED THE AIR LINK MENU OPTION ON THE HEADSET! It's no longer in the 'Experimental' tab! In your 'Settings', it's now in the 'System' tab under the 'Quest Link' menu option! All other steps are the same though. I wished they'd done that 2 weeks ago before I made this video! 😂 Thanks to TEGRIDY VIDEOS and Temporalist who raised this issue in the comments earlier 😊 Q: My connection is laggy and I get stuttering video when trying to play games over Air Link. How can I fix it? A1: Ideally your headset should be on a dedicated router to your PC and it needs to be a 5GHz router too (with your PC hard-wired to the router). If not then there can be too much congestion on the router, and video is laggy. A2: Make sure your GPU and CPU drivers are up to date, as well as your Oculus and Steam apps. A3: Turn off any in-game overlay, such as the NVidia Experience overlay, as that can cause issues. Q: My PC doesn't show up when I try to connect over Air Link A: Make sure that your headset is on the same network as your PC. Also make sure that your Quest 2 firmware, and the oculus app on your PC, are up-to-date. Also make sure that windows and your graphics drivers are up to date too. These are the most common reasons for a black screen or just seeing 3 dots on screen. Q: I can't find the Steam VR Performance Test App. Where is it? A: It's gone! It's been removed from the store. You now just need to compare your PC specs against the supported hardware list (link in the description for that). And at the end of the day, if in doubt, just give it a go! If anyone has any issues and fixes that they've come across as well please add them in the comments too so it helps everyone out 😊 If you're still having issues then check out the official Air Link troubleshooting page available here... bit.ly/3JwOAz1
The wifi on your PC needs to connect to a router, it's not a router itself. And I would always recommend connecting over a ethernet cable from your PC to your router and not using wifi.
@@MyTechGearGaming I meant connecting the Quest 2 to the integrated Wifi on my PC, while my PC is connected to the Router through an Ethernet Cable (aka., the Quest 2 receives signal wirelessly from my PC's integrated Wifi, and not from the Router Wifi which would be a different network). Asking this, as to avoid any signal interference that could occur with other Wifi devices that family member use while the VR is in use (as both are on different Wifi network). This question came up for me, as i read about some suggesting on using two different Router's to keep VR separate from home Wifi network.
After many vids with bad explanations, this one is great, just explained right how to connect Meta quest 2 with PC. Only valid and working solution. Thank you much, really great explanation.
Thank you for this video My current system has a 3700x, 32gb 3200MHz ram, and a 6900XT. The moment my motherboard is back from having to RMA it I am going to to try this. Genuinely don't know why I hadn't learned that this was a feature until now 🤯
Hey so i am having a problem with connecting to my pc with air link. So I was playing vr on pc using air link yesterday perfectly fine but today i tried to connect to my pc with air link like i normally do but it unpaired airlink for some reason. When I try to pair it to my pc again it does not detect my pc on vr it just says searching for pc but it never finds it. I have tried updating everything, restarting everything, and reinstalling eveything including the app on pc but it still wont detect my pc it just says searching for pc why is that?? Please help anyone???
@@MyTechGearGaming no I haven’t but the only thing that I think might fix would be factory reset it but I don’t want to do that so I’m just gonna wait for a software update maybe it will fix it idk
Thank you so much for this. I went about launching steam VR games a different way that was so hit and miss I just about threw the headset out. Thank you!
you don't need an internet connect, you just need to connect your headset to your pc using either a usb cable, or wirelessly over your router. I've created guides for both.
@@MyTechGearGamingThanks for the reply. I think I should be more clear. I don’t want to use the Link cable to my PC from my headset. I want to use my Wi-Fi, but I can’t connect my PC to my router via Ethernet cable, because the router is in my living room and my PC is in my room. I was asking if I have to use a Ethernet cable connected to my PC in order to have a wireless setup for my oculus.
@NewDawnFadesX it is recommended best practice to have a wired connection between your pc and router to limit congestion and latency on the network. You can connect your pc over wifi too, it just won’t be as good a connection so you might have to lower your streaming quality to compensate.
Hey tech gear, quick question. I did all this, but when I’m in my headset, I can’t click anything on my desktop, and steam vr won’t launch from my apps, it says it is just indefinitely still open, even when I press quit. Any tips? I worked just yesterday, then it stopped. What I did yesterday bc steam vr was buggy, is I literally just clicked on bonelab (which I just bought) on my pc, and it worked. Edit: also, when you say launching steam vr takes a while, how long is a while 😅?
You can play any PCVR game on steam or oculus platform via air link. I’d definitely recommend checking out Steam Link that was just released. I just did a video on it. It’s an even simpler way of getting your steam games up and running wirelessly.
Great video man! I just tried the airlink with half life alyx, and at first it worked and was playable , but had noticeable stutter. I have a tp link mesh wifi x68 system. I was only using one deco unit because with my old pc setup and devices, it seemed to slow them down. I now have a new PC setup, and even though my router is upstairs I connected the second deco to my new pc and reconnected the airlink and half life alyx runs pretty darn good considering I'm not even in the same room and my pc isn't directly connected to the router upstairs. I'm pretty impressed, and just want to say thank you again for the great content!
Such a question. I put on the goggles, I want to start the Air Link and I have no connection, I have to start the goggles from the beginning and it works and this is what happens every time. Is it like that for you too?
I've just re-pinned it. For some reason youtube seems to unpin comments every now and again without warning or notification. It's super frustrating. Anyway, you should now see it popping up as my pinned comment at the top of the comments.
Thank you for this but my question is I can find where the airlink button Is it just doesn’t show up with my pc and I cant see the setting to turn on airlink on my pc even when I go on beta I don’t see the toggle
I've been having a problem where every time I run a game from the SteamVR lobby, the game boots up then crashes. It will literally run for a second then says: up next HOME. I have no idea what to do as I've tried redownloading every single part of the process aside from steam itself. I have absolutely no problems connecting my quest 2 and my PC is more than capable of running the games I want to play. Any suggestions?
I have a question .. I have a lenovo y730 laptop with cor I7 7700 hq and 1060 6gb and 16 gb ram .. could my LAPTOPconnrlect with quest 2 and play the steam games ?
My pc said my computer is vr ready but when I play I get black lines all over my screen sometimes, is this Bec I’m not using cable? Or I’m to far away from wifi
Thank man you just gained a subscriber you make it so simple and organized to know what your doing also I just got my pc and I did everything and it is going well
I cant move my controllers after i connect with my pc but on Main menu where i can choose to connect with pc i can any fixes??? It for some reason only works on quest 2 and not airlink
you should ideally. be connecting your PC over ethernet to your router anyway. It's only the headset that should be connecting over wifi to your PC, via your wireless router.
If it’s a game that is cross-buy, then yes, you can play it on the pc without having to buy it again ( you do still have to install it on the pc though). If not then you would need to buy the pcvr version of the game as well in order to play it from the pc. You can find a list of cross-buy games here www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/2335732183153590/
I did a setup guide for virtual desktop too which is here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vCBCzURQSMw.html 🙂 A good router is definitely key no matter which you use.
Every video i've seen are all the same. I am having an issue where when i press 'Pair' it'll show the button 'Launch' sort of grayed out and nothing ever happens. Nothing loads nor does my oculus ever sync. Not really sure what else to do =\
Airlink connects your headset to your PC over your local wifi. So yes, if your wifi is good ( and your PC too ) then you should have a good experience.
Questions: 1) Does steam VR visual settings effect anything? since it's not steam, but oculus, that's streaming it? 2) I went in the oculus settings and enabled "Hear VR Audio from Computer". Although i could hear the steam game I was playing, and YT videos, i couldn't hear sound files played on window's built-in "Voice Recorder". Why? Both the sound output and sound input in the windows audio settings were set to the oculus. 3) While sitting at the PC, I couldn't hear the game audio from the Quest 2 while my son was playing. Anyway to fix that? 4) Can I do PC VR, and cast to the TV from the Quest, at the same time? and if so, would being wired help that along, or not by much?
Thanks for your video. I have followed all of your steps but I am stuck at the point where you are launching into the SteamVR home page. My SteamVR is launching and I can see that it recognizes my Quest 2, but it will not actually launch games into VR mode. It just shows me the game in the VR headset as if it is on a virtual monitor. Any idea how to force it to enter VR mode?
Thanks for the great video! I'm fairly new to the whole VR thing. I didn't even know about the Steam VR test. I do now! It's good to know my system is more than capable of handling VR. Running super smooth with Intel Core i7, 32GB RAM, GeForce 2060 6GB.
i dont actually know whats wrong, i do every step of this, and whenever i click launch on my oculus, it just starts loading and never loads, any answers?
so how does the oculus app on the pc work?? because it will not log in on my pc. it gove me a link to log into meta, which accepts the password, but then just jumps to a useless page with account info on it
I went through this multiple times and I don't seem to be able to get my desktop streamed. I have everything checked out: Wifi6, ASUS laptop 11th gen i7 and RTX3050, 16GB RAM. I get to the part where I launch Oculus Link but I get an error message saying a hardware requirement is bla bla bla (I cannot take a screenshot as it is in the Oculus). I can however use Virtual Desktop but it is annoying the hell out of me why I cannot play it via Air Link. I joined Discord channels but I hate it :D
@@MyTechGearGaming Still not with Airlink but VD works fine. Now I'll also hook my PC via ethernet to the router. Didn't think it matters so much. Gave up on AirLink 🤣
I’d always recommend connecting your pc to your router via a cable. You ideally want only the quest headset running over wifi on your network so it can use as much of the band as it needs. VD is a mire mature platform and so does tend to work better across more scenarios. Enjoy! 😊
@@MyTechGearGaming Thanks again. Yeah, I guess having wireless between laptop and router and the Oculus and the laptop is too much for the network causing lags and jitter. I will get my USB A to LAN adapter as my laptop does not have LAN and I'll test stuff.
My oculus connects, but the screen just has 3 dots constantly, then fades to black. i can see my area circle, but nothing else. im just confused as to why it doesnt work.
For some reaosn when I click on the OculusSetup file it doesn't open, is there something i can do to fix it? edit: I've tried running as administrator already
If the game supports cross buy then if you buy it on the quest platform then you will get it on the rift PC platform for free. Check out a list here www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/2335732183153590/
It depends on a number of factors such as the signal strength of your router and also whether you’re in the same room or there are a walls between the headset and the router when you play. You’ll get the best results when you have line of sight between the headset and the router. Having said that I’ve played in vr in the room next door to the router and it’s been fine.
is there a way to fix the desktop view its been flashina black screen when i look at my desktop view cant seem to find a video for any help would be great
does wallpaper engiene make the VR desktop not open? when i click on the desktop button on the airlink vr thing it just gives me a black screen and my library doesnt show the games i own
Bro every time I pair my vr to my pc and try to launch the air link it just shows the loading screen and dosent load and it shows up on the pf as “headset not found” can you please help
Can I have my laptop and my quest both wireless or does my laptop have to be hardwired. The reason I ask is because I've done all the steps but every time I go to the desktop icon from the VR Oculus air link menu, the quest just goes black and it doesn't load up steam VR
It is recommended to have your pc/laptop hard wired to your router. It's worth checking thr spec of your laptop too to make sure it can run PC vr games. The compatibility test in steam is good to run. Also check my pinned post for some solutions to common problems like the black screen.
will it work for oculus mobile app or does it have to be on pc because it doesnt say i have enough room even though i deleted basically all of my files
When i open the Steam VR app on my desktop through my headset, it opens a small window "please plug in your VR headset" even though i'm connected through Airlink. What should i do to solve this?
That's usually the most common issue but there's a few other options to check too. Reddit and the SteamVR community are generally the best options to look at here such as this link here... steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/0/3121550424337133709/
The spec of your laptop does need to meet the specs required for PCVR gaming. Often the graphics cards in laptops aren’t good enough so just check your specs.
Hey I’ve been trying to get this to work on my oculus quest 2 for WEEKS. I’m trying to finish my senior project for college and I’m stressing because it’s not working. Long story short when I got through the steps of enabling airlink, in the web browser I’m not able to click on any icons or navigate on my desktop. Also when I enable airlink the whole oculus system crashes and restarts. If you could help me out I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!!
Did you manage to get this sorted? A little confused as how do you have issues with clicking in the web browser if the oculus system crashes when you start Airlink? If you are having stability issues then it is most often solved by ensuring your drivers and apps and firmware are up to date.
Quick question: I have the Oculus Rift CV1 and I have the oculus account/SteamVR installed. At work (a school) we just got the Quest 2 and I thought about testing it on my favourite game (Elite:Dangerous) at home to see if I should buy one for myself. The quest 2 headset is set up on a Meta account the school has created, will that be a problem if I take it home and connect to my rig and my Oculus software?
I haven’t tried it when it’s on two different accounts to be honest. You might as well give it a go. The worst that can happen is that it doesn’t work and you haven’t lost anything by trying. You’ll have to let people know in these comments how you got on.
@@MyTechGearGaming Thanks. I took one home yesterday and it worked flawlessly! Gotta have one. I must admit, that the colors and black level on my old Rift is better, but the clarity, resolution and almost no screendoor effect on the Quest 2 takes the cake! (And my wife, who never wanted to touch VR stood for 30 mins and LOVED Beat Saber 😀I don´t have a Wifi 6 router, but Airlink worked very fine anyway. Think I´ll try to buy a cable when I get my own. (mayby I´ll have to buy two.....the wife you know)
@@MyTechGearGaming I just bought the PICO 4. I like the lenses and FOV better on those, and I will be using it mostly for PCVR with VD. And it comes with Les Mills Body Combat witch is one app that can really motivate me (and the wife) to excercise 🙂(Actually I just oredered one more for the wife....so we can play together in VR)
A great way to motivate each other. Unfortunately I can’t get the pico 4 in my country at the moment ( I even tried reaching out to them to see if I could directly source it and still no luck). Glad you’re enjoying it though. Les Mills is great fun and gets you fit at the same time, so win win there! 😊
Do i have to be in the room that my pc is in once I load the game? I don't have much room in the game room but I was hoping to load my boxing game and do it in the living room.
Being in the same room is recommended to get the best signal strength but it’s not required. I’ve happily played wirelessly in a different room to my router without any issues.
Any advice my partner has a meta quest 2 she has a 3080 has set everything up and when she goes to pair it, it then says graphics card isnt compatible but when looking it up online it very much is compatible any ideas how to fix this?
I’m in a bind Will this be fast enough?. …Ryzen 5 5000 Series, 5600G (3.90GHz), AMD Radeon Vega 8, 500 GB p.s. I dont mind mediocre resolution Thanks for reading!!!
Hey, how do I get my meta quest games to be installed on the meta app on my pc. I can’t see any of the games I purchased locally on my quest 2 while running the air link. When I looked them up in the store, it’s as if I haven’t purchased any of them
The games installed on your headset run on your headset, not the PC, so they won’t appear in the meta app on your PC. They are essentially different app stores. Some games are cross buy though so if you buy it on one platform then you get it for free on the other one. You still need to install it on the other platform, you just won’t have to pay for it again.
Ensure all your apps and drivers are up to date. Also check that your default graphics card is set properly in nvidia control panel ( or amd equivalent ). Also check you are connecting on 5GHz network. Check for network interference and check no one else in the house is hogging the bandwidth.
The VR headset? It depends on the size of your glasses and what facial interface you are using. Not really related to the video but hope that answer helps you.
Similar issue was shared and several solutions on reddit. Check out www.reddit.com/r/WindowsMR/comments/fej4oq/cant_get_rid_of_toggle_dashboard_system_click_it/
So I know there are some games that are cross buy but they’re not showing up when linked. I’m using air link and none of the games that are cross buy like vader immortal or onward are showing up on the oculus app.
You still have to install the game on the PC to run the PCVR version. You just won’t have to pay for them if it’s a cross buy game and you’ve already bought the quest 2 version.
I have troubles with setting up the air-link Last week it ran just fine but since the Quest Link is now in settings it won't work. Direct Link via cable works just fine. How come?
Yes you can play over a link cable too. I covered this in a Link Cable Setup Guide video here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yP2ejWBDnHw.html
@@MyTechGearGaming My niece is connected to her PC but says when she disables WIFI she can't play games on the occulus vr set, only with wifi will it work. The PC is hardwired with an ethernet. Trying to trouble shoot.
If she plays a PCVR game then it runs on the pc and will use the internet connection of the PC. If she plays a standalone game on the quest headset then it needs to use the wifi connection of the headset even if it is still plugged into a pc. Hope that helps.
Please help, after setting quest 2 up on new gaming pc NONE of my games show up on in airlink, nor does steam.(it shows up on the monitor button) Did all the steps, paired it etc. No games. (Is it cause their on my headset, do I have to turn off airlink for them like boxing? Then I downloaded a airlink game inside the store, and it said I didn't have enough space. Brand new computer all specs, is it because I'm running windows 11? So I have to move the games I bought on the headset? I'm really sad.
If you have moved to a new PC then you need to download and install all your PCVR games onto the new PC. PCVR games run on your PC, not the headset. If you’re on windows 11 make sure you install the oculus app onto your main C drive as there seem to be some issues when installing to other drives. Hope that helps and let know how you go.
I NEED HELP!! I open the airlink but i dont get teleported to the oculus rift pc vr homescreen. well i do but i only get the white background saying "opss u dont have any games on ur library, there are a lot of games to be downloaded in the oculus quest library" or something like that. which havnt happened before i try to click on my controllers buttons to bring the screen with games and stuff up but nothing happens
Depends on what the cause is but there are plenty of posts on the internet about it if you search it up, including this one communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/Get-Help/Not-Enough-Space-But-I-do/td-p/632272
Great video. Could I ask, if I add a wi-fi 6 router in access point mode will I still get the benefits of wi-fi 6? My PC is upstairs on ethernet, and my VR playing area is downstairs. I want to add the wi-fi 6 access point downstairs purely for use with VR gaming, and keep my existing router and mesh network for everything else.
Is the access point downstairs hard-wired over cable back to the router upstairs? If so, then you should be fine. If this is all over wifi though and you've got that access point, and your router, and another mesh router, all over wifi in your house then it's going to get congested and you'll likely suffer from interference if you're not careful. I'm assuming your PC is hard-wired to the router? General rule of thumb is hard-wire your PC to the router, and keep your headset as close to the wifi router as possible (or access point if that's what you're using). I have a mesh network that I play off of and it's fine. I just make sure to turn off wifi roaming for the vr headset so it stays locked to one node. Hope that all helps.
you should be fine then Duncan. Just make sure that the Quest 2 is connecting to that hard-wired access point as it's the closest, and not trying to connect directly to the wifi router upstairs instead.
yes you need steamvr to play steam games on quest, and yes, you can also use airlink. Airlink connects you to the PC, you then run steamVR from the virtual desktop screen on your headset once you're connected.
@@MyTechGearGaming there isn’t a way to just have it on the quest for instance beat saber is a pcvr game but also a quest game if I had it why would I not be able to transfer it to the quest?
That’s like asking why can’t you transfer a PlayStation game to an Xbox. They are completely different. A PCVR game is a pc game running on a pc. A standalone game running on the quest 2 headset is running an a variation of android. When you run a PCVR game the headset is just being used as a monitor to the game running on your pc.
if it's not compatible then you'll need to get one that is. you don't necessarily need to replace your whole PC though, just the graphics card might be enough.
When I try to boot up Steam VR, it puts me in a world with a grid on the floor, and nothing else. It just makes me sit there and nothing happens. How can I fix this?
@@MyTechGearGaming actually yeah! Apparently that IS steam vr. I just hit the menu button on my controller, a steam menu popped up, and I could get to home from there. Thank you for asking though!
Im New to the VR/PC world, using a oculous quest 2 and i had done these things and everything checked out till i tried using steamVR, for me it ran extremely poorly and atleast the game i tried playing really wasnt playable, im not sure if this applies to all games but for ghosts of tabor your able to start the game in oculousVR Mode rather than using SteamVR and its worked perfectly since then. so i almost feel SteamVR is Useless
Not sure what changed, no longer working, Im not getting any pairing code, this was working for me with the old method but had to reinstall windows and now I can't get it to work., any ideas?
I have also heard that once you play Meta PC VR games once, those games themselves will individually show up in the Quest apps menu and will launch with a single click. Is that true, or was someone lying to me?
You're hitting minimum spec on the graphics card there. You can find the spec needed on the half life alyx store page ( see limk). You might be ok but you'll need to turn the graphics settings down store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/#:~:text=System%20Requirements&text=OS%3A%20Windows%2010,1060%20%2F%20RX%20580%20%2D%206GB%20VRAM
Airlink has died with Oculus PC App update to Ver 56.1. Headset does not detect my PC. Lots of people complaining about this very issue online with 56.1. Some people have been able to fix by enabling beta test channel in settings and using a link cable. Problem is I dont have a link cable. Maybe a good idea for a video for you. If anyone can find a fix you can! This is a real bummer.
Hi Craig. It’s never fun when an update screws something up. Most of the work arounds I’d suggest you already have! 😊 seeing as you don’t have a cable though I’d recommend giving virtual desktop a go. It’s an alternative to Airlink (and has been around long before Airlink was even a thing). I did do a setup guide for that too if you wanted to check it out.
@@MyTechGearGaming I just tried with a PS5 controller charge cable :D and yes that does work with the beta update to ver 57 but yes airlink is down for me on both versions. Thanks will try virtual desktop. Have heard it is better anyway. Thanks for quick reply.
Yes as they are two different platforms. However, if the game is also available in the oculus rift store on the PC, and is a cross-buy game then you can install it on your PC for free! 😊
In the oculus app on your pc, look up the game you want, and if you’ve already bought it on the quest and it’s available in the oculus App Store on your pc then you’ll be able to install it for free. Once installed then you’ll be able to run it straight from the rift homescreen when you connect from your quest headset without having to go to the steam app.
