Oculus Quest 2 getting official wireless 'Air Link' mode and 120hz PC support

Virtual Desktop may turn out better than Air Link in at least some respects. It's a more mature program and the developer is super responsive and passionate about fixing bugs, enhancing peformance and adding new features. He can be a lot more agile than the Facebook developer teams in rolling out new versions.

It took a long while for Link to become usable, and they still tend to break it every other update.

Still it's always good to have options, and to have this as an official feature.
 
As the developer says, the issue is that that they blocked his app from officially supporting wireless VR for two years, then after allowing it on the store they then announce their own version shortly afterwards. Mind you, VD was pretty ropey at first, so it's understandable that they didn't want it official at that time, but at least for the last year it's been in a very usable state, and they could have approved it.

I too thought though that they would have released a hardware dongle rather than relying on people's wi-fi routers, but I suppose that a dongle would be less flexible than standard wi-fi as you have lots of options for extending the coverage away from the PC, either by mesh network or physical cables.
 
newuser said:
In PCVR stuff I find it hard to tell any difference between 72/80/90. Maybe I'm broken.
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Play Eleven table tennis, and watch the ball. The difference in smoothness between 72hz and 90hz is very noticable. The ball moves so fast it looks stuttery on lower refresh rates.
 
melmac said:
Hey Shi, Sorry mate wasn't online yesterday. You still having issues?

Can you give me the exact make and model of your Router please? Want to try and get you fixed up.

The Star Trek Bridge Crew needs you!! , well, the Captain needs you to make coffee. :p
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Yep, white with two sweeteners please!
 
On first impressions Air link is impressive! Works better in my lounge than Virtual Desktop, though still a bit jittery (though simpler games like Cosmodread work great).
Next to my router it seemed like a wired experience. Still not as sharp as my Index, despite the reduced SDE, but amazing for a wireless connection. This is a killer feature. I'll need to experiment some more to see how it works in different rooms amd with different games.
 
ShiWarrior said:
I've not tried airlink yet, I'm quite happy with VD
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Airlink works far better in my experience, especially for Oculus store games.

Of course VD has better desktop support including virtual cinemas, so I'll continue to use that for watching Disney+ or Netflix in VR. (Prime Video has a very decent native Quest app, so no need for VD).
 
Virtual Desktop now supports Asynchonous Spacewarp, which is the best frame-rate interpolation technique currently available. I don't think AirLink does.
 
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