#AIRBRIDGE WIRELESS UPDATE#
#AIRBRIDGE WIRELESS PASSWORD#

Using VR Air Bridge for both Rift and SteamVR gaming, the performance was essentially flawless. Despite the name, VR Air Bridge doesn’t pass through your PC’s internet connection. This also means you have to switch Wi-Fi networks in your headset whenever you want to switch between using Quest 2 for PC VR and standalone. It seems to just mostly be a sleeker UI wrapping the existing Wi-Fi Direct feature of Windows. Air Bridge was billed as a fully integrated solution, but that’s simply not the case. And if you factory reset your headset or get a new one in future, you’ll need to remember it and type it in again.

#AIRBRIDGE WIRELESS PASSWORD#

To connect from your headset, you’ll have to type this password inside VR. But rather than being greeted with some kind of seamless 1-click setup or pairing with your Quest 2, you’re prompted to choose a password to set up what’s essentially a standard Wi-Fi network. If you miss this prompt you may end up frustrated as you won’t realize why it’s not working.Īfter rebooting, to set VR Air Bridge up you open the Oculus PC app. When you first connect the adapter to your PC you’ll be prompted by Windows to reboot for it to function. This lets you position the antenna to get an uninterrupted direct view of your headset for the best possible signal quality. In the box, you’ll find the adapter itself and its cradle with a built-in 2 meter extension cable. The signal can be degraded by the distance to the router or obstacles like solid walls, and frames can be dropped or delivered late if too many other devices are congesting the network.ĭ-Link’s $100 adapter creates a direct Wi-Fi 6 link between your PC and headset, in theory avoiding network congestion and signal propagation issues. Using your home Wi-Fi network rather than a dedicated dongle presents several issues though.

#AIRBRIDGE WIRELESS UPDATE#

It was shipped as a software update in early 2021, but third-party alternatives like Virtual Desktop and ALVR have been available since the release of the original Oculus Quest in mid-2019. The existing Air Link is a Quest feature that lets the device act as a wireless PC VR headset via your Wi-Fi network.

We tested it to find out if that’s actually true. VR Air Bridge promised to make wireless PC VR on Quest 2 easy and eliminate hitches.

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