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

I played half life for the first time over airlink today. It played better than when I plugged it in via USB, apart from loading time, I was very surprised! My router was in the room I was playing.

I can finally hide behind stuff etc as I have no real room where the PC is!
 
sirp said:
I played half life for the first time over airlink today. It played better than when I plugged it in via USB, apart from loading time, I was very surprised! My router was in the room I was playing.

I can finally hide behind stuff etc as I have no real room where the PC is!
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They really did a very good job with Airlink.
 
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).
 
I actually tried the prime app for the first time in VR. I didn't realise I would be sitting in a virtual cinema :)

Quite neat, but I can't wear this headset for more than about an hour, and can't be bothered with extra expense of other straps etc.

Looking forward to trying some more pc vr games now I have airlink though.
 
Don't know if it's still the same but if you move the screen on the prime app it blacks out the entire surroundings rather than the cinema effect. I prefer it. It'd be nice if they added a watch together feature.
 
I've used both & don't notice a lot of difference in performance between the 2. Kind feel sorry for the Devs at VD as Oculus didn't support them as such & made it so you had to sideload to enable PCVR. Now Oculus decide to join the party & will likely remove the 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.
 
Ravenger said:
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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I believe airlink does offer ASW

I think people who have already bought into VD will continue to use but it's going to be a hard sell for new users when they can get the same for free from Oculus.
 
Vd offers ssw i believe not asw. It's not the same thing. Vd uses the headset to add the extra frames since its not doing much during normal pcvr gaming. It means your computer can focus on as many frames as possible and the headset fills the rest. Very smart solution.
 
Unseul said:
Vd offers ssw i believe not asw. It's not the same thing. Vd uses the headset to add the extra frames since its not doing much during normal pcvr gaming. It means your computer can focus on as many frames as possible and the headset fills the rest. Very smart solution.
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Oh right thanks. I know the concept behind it & it's pretty cool but didn't realise there was a SSW & ASW so most likely me getting confused with the two sorry
 
So in my experience it was choppy/flickering when I played Beatsaber/VRChat, I had to stick with VirtualDesktop.

Not sure if its cause AirLink is more demanding? I don't really get it.
 
Senpai said:
So in my experience it was choppy/flickering when I played Beatsaber/VRChat, I had to stick with VirtualDesktop.

Not sure if its cause AirLink is more demanding? I don't really get it.
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Maybe you have the resolution set too high in the Oculus App. Or, you are running too high a bitrate in Airlink for your router or GPU to handle. Another Reason, are you connecting using 2.4Ghz when using airlink? The Last reason, if you have an AMD card, Virtual desktop will probably work better for you as the Codec Airlink uses runs better on Nvidia's cards.
 
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