Oculus Quest Controller support

[MrDeviant]

I am able to connect to SteamVR with my Oculus Quest but Quest controllers are not listed as an option. I can't seem to get buttons mapped to work with the games. Will quest controllers be added in the future? If not can someone offer tips on which is the best controller to pick and how to remap buttons to work?
Thanks for any and all help.

[snakeblade]

Pick the Rift, but it's still a little wonky. I have an AR/VR company and we're working on a solution too.

[MrDeviant]

Thanks for the reply Snakeblade.

[ZoeyNature]

Hey, how did you get SteamVR to work with the Quest? I have SteamVR running in Virtual Desktop (sideloaded) but I still can't get SteamVR to work.

[MrDeviant]

First I installed the Virtual Desktop Streamer from https://www.vrdesktop.net/ Then I sideloaded the Android Virtual Desktop app found here: https://download.vrdesktop.net/files/VirtualDesktop.Android.apk
Have SteamVR installed and running on your computer. Connect to your PC and it should work.
Good Luck

[TinLeaf]

For those still seeking a solution, I found several of the tutorials available on any particular website or medium to be too outdated to function, or simply too complicated and reliant on buying redundant software. After about 8 hours straight of fumbling around in a maze of software, I eventually came to the conclusion that the best possible choice for Oculus Quest users at current is to:

1. Purchase the $20 USD Virtual Desktop app in the Oculus store.

2. Configure your headset to function with SideQuest sideloading tool (many guides on setup exist, including a handy and relatively simple one included in SideQuest's webpage and apps.

3. Use SideQuest to pull a sneaky and drop a replacement file with a slight tweak over the old Virtual Desktop file. This is made easy with SideQuest's drag n' drop APK installing system.

4. Use a third party app launcher (also installed via SideQuest) on your VR headset to launch your now customized Virtual Desktop app. I had success with Quest App Launcher, also found on SideQuest.

Synchronize your PC's Virtual desktop app with your headset's modified app, then open SteamVR like normal with no more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around!

It MUST be noted that:

A. There are several smaller steps involved in these processes, and I recommend you use what I told you here to help figure those out. (stuff like setting your headset to Dev mode to allow its software to be modified, etc.)

B. YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO COMPLETELY DISABLE YOUR FIREWALLS AND SECURITY BEFORE EVEN DOWNLOADING THE NECESSARY TOOLS AND FILES, OR YOU WILL HAVE DATA CORRUPTIONS COCKING UP YOUR DAY ALL OVER THE PLACE.
VR does NOT play well with antivirus systems. Particularly with Avast and Windows Defender from what I've observed.

I know this isn't the most comprehensive guide, but with so much misinformation out there, I hope I can pass on my success. But as always, check for more up-to-date suggestions than mine. It works great now, but I have no idea for how long until Oculus does some more dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Pro-Tip: the most comprehensive and effective guide I could find was in fact in SideQuest itself (in its setup tab, upper right) which proved to be a serious boon.
To celebrate, I played Blades and Sorcery until I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ puked.
Best of luck, nerds!

[perihelion]

Pro-Tip: Do NOT disable firewalls and security, no matter what the previous guy says in all caps...

[TinLeaf]

Originally posted by perihelion:

Pro-Tip: Do NOT disable firewalls and security, no matter what the previous guy says in all caps...

I never recommend downloading anything you're unfamiliar with, nor is it necessary to make these downloads without scanning their content, but LOTS of people have reported issues with their antivirus systems breaking their VR firmware updates and the like, which is not at all atypical. I can't say you're wrong to recommend caution, but antivirus software ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up PC/hardware/firmware/game modding is NOT a new concept. But by all means, anyone who wants to skip that step is more than welcome to, so long as they don't have the gall to blame me when ♥♥♥♥ doesn't work.

[hollyhouse11]

Hey yall. My oculus quest controllers just point and act crazy, and I am unable to figure out what to do with them so I can use a thrustmaster and get it set up on here. Can anyone please help me?

[Yaraisthatyou?]

I can't get my steamvr to work? Like my headset is connected but my controllers aren't (I'm on quest 1). I have tried everything! D: and it won't work, I tried the steamvr performance test and it said to upgrade my graphics cards? but my specs are legit the match?

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[Yeyo]

I never had any issues more than a year now. I just connect (OQ2) with cable or VD wireless or Airlink and steam VR runs normally on any game I ve tried (Half Life, Red Matter, into the radius, the room, various experiences, exorcist, layers of fear and many more). The only issue sometimes are the controllers which you have to switch to rift .....

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