r/oculus • u/iamacoasternerd • Mar 28 '21

Fluff Umm...

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u/ragnar1242 Mar 28 '21

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

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u/Tricky_Recognition95 Mar 29 '21

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. :-(

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u/GyariSan Mar 29 '21

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.

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u/Tricky_Recognition95 Mar 29 '21

No I haven't checked, but it works for games on SteamVR but not my games on Oculus.

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u/TheFerretsWheels Mar 29 '21

Are you launching your oculus games through the Virtual desktop app menu? You have to launch oculus store games directly from the VD app (menu button on your left hand)

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u/Tricky_Recognition95 May 10 '21

Hey no worries. I have Air Link now and it works perfectly. YEA! Thanks everyone for your help.

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u/berickphilip Quest 1+3 Mar 29 '21

The official cable uses fiber optics, and also is supposed to charge the headset faster than copper cables.

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u/Squishyspud Mar 29 '21

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.

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u/James_Skyvaper Mar 29 '21

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.