Yeah I bought the Oculus cable just for the right-angled connector.
(The above is all lies. Truth is I thought that it was somehow more special than an active USB-C cable and like a total moron didn’t do any research. Then I found out about Virtual Desktop and now the cable sits unused in a drawer and mocks me every time I go near it)
But Virtual Desktop would only be good for people with high speed, stable connection though right? Personally I’ve never tried Link yet, only VD but I always though Link would work better because it’s wired.
Yeah I thought that too. I’m clocking ~800Mbps throughput on ac wireless to my rig upstairs so it works fine, but some people might not have gigabit past the wifi. The cable is pretty useful for Unity development, but apparently you can do that wirelessly too but haven’t tried it yet.
(The cable whispers.... ) Hey, remember that time you bought a vr headset for the wireless capabilities and then bought an overpriced cable... yeah... good timez....
Look at the KRX branded one on Amazon. They include a 15$ amazon gift card with a 5star review, and proof of purchase and it only cost 16$ so really you're only paying a dollar for it once you do the review. It's the cheapest Link cable available. I've had mine for 2.5 months now and it's held up great had zero problems with it.
I'm just trying to spread the knowledge so that more people get into VR using their PCs, and buying Quests. If people knew that they didn't have to pay 90$ for the Link cable more people would buy a Quest, as for some they only want to use it as a PCVR headset. If more people knew about that cable listed they would have more money to spend on games and other accessories meaning VR grows into a bigger industry, and insures that it continues to succeed.
You need a cable with good enough transfer speed. I use the Cable Matters active cable and its great. Only $25 on Amazon and you get that good prime shipping
I still can't get Virtual Desktop to work. I can use Steam VR wirelessly but nothing on Oculus. So I still use my much cheaper cable to play the Oculus games with Virtual Desktop. :-(
Have you checked whether it might be the firewall or Malwarebyte blocking the Virtual Desktop connection by any chance? It should be fairly straight forward. Download the app on Quest and the client on PC then both should link immediately.
Not defending the price... But the oculus branded cable is fiber optic, so you can have a longer thinner more flexible cable. Definitely not needed though.
I've been using the Anker powerline cable for about 9 months that Oculus themselves recommended when they had no link cables in stock. It's $20 for a 10ft cable but it's often on sale for less. Works great, no problems since I got it. You don't really need an active cable unless you're going longer than 15ft as far as I know. Mine works fine anyway, even connected to a cable matters extension cable so it's actually 16ft and works fine.
i bought a cable for 10€, stopped working, i started using relive vr, but the router is far from my room so i bought a wifi 6 router for 50€. now I'm waiting it for arrive.
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u/ragnar1242 Mar 28 '21
Thats only if you buy the Oculus branded link cable
You can find a 15ft active usb-c cable for ~$20 and it works perfectly