How do I make the Quest 3 run wired and native to SteamVR?

[Joryho]

I frankly think it's impossible to get it exactly as I want it to, but I'm just DONE with Meta's bullcrap software. When combined with SteamVR, the performance dips so much, that just opening my dashboard for Steam is a huge gamble as to whether or not SteamVR flat-out crashes because of Meta jank.
I'm sick and tired of it. I want to make my games stop crashing when I open my SteamVR overlay, but I can't use Virtual Desktop because I'm playing wired. In fact, I refuse to play wirelessly, because my router literally cannot handle sending the connection through to my PC (even if I play with an ethernet cable, like I do all the time!)

I'm using a Quest 3. I know this can work because Virtual Desktop itself works. PLEASE tell me if there's some way to get rid of Meta's connection entirely and make this little monster of a headset work with less issues on PCVR.

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by Joryho:

How do I make the Quest 3 run wired and native to SteamVR?

I frankly think it's impossible to get it exactly as I want it to, but I'm just DONE with Meta's bullcrap software. When combined with SteamVR, the performance dips so much, that just opening my dashboard for Steam is a huge gamble as to whether or not SteamVR flat-out crashes because of Meta jank.
I'm sick and tired of it. I want to make my games stop crashing when I open my SteamVR overlay, but I can't use Virtual Desktop because I'm playing wired. In fact, I refuse to play wirelessly, because my router literally cannot handle sending the connection through to my PC (even if I play with an ethernet cable, like I do all the time!)

I'm using a Quest 3. I know this can work because Virtual Desktop itself works. PLEASE tell me if there's some way to get rid of Meta's connection entirely and make this little monster of a headset work with less issues on PCVR.

You don't have such an option. You bought a headset that is mobile vr, there is no way to use it as a native cable set. When you connect it with a cable to your computer, the native VR headset is emulated, the cable also does not transmit the image, but is an internet connection. The easiest way to compare it to an audio cd and mp3 files. You play mp3.

The only thing you can do is to try to run a usb connection, or a wifi connection, in the best possible quality.

If this is not a solution for you, you can also sell the quest 3 and buy a wired ps vr 2 + pc adapter set at a similar price. But this is a fresh affair, and the software is not perfect yet, unless you have the patience to read the user manual, then it should work.

[diced]

You can use oculus killer to get rid of the oculus dash https://github.com/DevOculus-Meta-Quest/OculusKiller
You can also use reverse tethering https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet to use wireless software over a wire. Although this is slightly janky since you are now just running a wifi connection over the wire instead of sending data normally. I don't have virtual desktop, I use steam link vr for this and it has a pretty major flaw in being unable to find computers when reverse tethered, so you have to activate reverse tethering after the quest connects to the pc.

[Joryho]

Originally posted by diced:

You can use oculus killer to get rid of the oculus dash https://github.com/DevOculus-Meta-Quest/OculusKiller
You can also use reverse tethering https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet to use wireless software over a wire. Although this is slightly janky since you are now just running a wifi connection over the wire instead of sending data normally. I don't have virtual desktop, I use steam link vr for this and it has a pretty major flaw in being unable to find computers when reverse tethered, so you have to activate reverse tethering after the quest connects to the pc.

Considering my luck with software (in reference to reverse tethering), it'd probably break something horribly, but if I get fed up enough with this all, then I'll try it. Unfortunately that'd mean I'd have to buy Virtual Desktop for a second time on my quest, since it's using a different account than when I last used it, but it'd be something.
The dash killer has been what I've been using for a bit now, but every week or so (I believe it's more accurate to say every time the Link app updates, but it FEELS like every week) it gets replaced. It's also a tad bit buggy with how it works, occasionally breaking Link entirely.
Thanks for the advice though.

[diced]

Originally posted by Joryho:

Originally posted by diced:

You can use oculus killer to get rid of the oculus dash https://github.com/DevOculus-Meta-Quest/OculusKiller
You can also use reverse tethering https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet to use wireless software over a wire. Although this is slightly janky since you are now just running a wifi connection over the wire instead of sending data normally. I don't have virtual desktop, I use steam link vr for this and it has a pretty major flaw in being unable to find computers when reverse tethered, so you have to activate reverse tethering after the quest connects to the pc.

Considering my luck with software (in reference to reverse tethering), it'd probably break something horribly, but if I get fed up enough with this all, then I'll try it. Unfortunately that'd mean I'd have to buy Virtual Desktop for a second time on my quest, since it's using a different account than when I last used it, but it'd be something.
The dash killer has been what I've been using for a bit now, but every week or so (I believe it's more accurate to say every time the Link app updates, but it FEELS like every week) it gets replaced. It's also a tad bit buggy with how it works, occasionally breaking Link entirely.
Thanks for the advice though.

Oh yeah I forgot about a 3rd option, there's a software called alvr that can connect your quest to your pc over a wire, and it works a bit better than reverse tethering. https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/ALVR-wired-setup-(ALVR-over-USB)

[Joryho]

Originally posted by diced:

Originally posted by Joryho:

Considering my luck with software (in reference to reverse tethering), it'd probably break something horribly, but if I get fed up enough with this all, then I'll try it. Unfortunately that'd mean I'd have to buy Virtual Desktop for a second time on my quest, since it's using a different account than when I last used it, but it'd be something.
The dash killer has been what I've been using for a bit now, but every week or so (I believe it's more accurate to say every time the Link app updates, but it FEELS like every week) it gets replaced. It's also a tad bit buggy with how it works, occasionally breaking Link entirely.
Thanks for the advice though.

Oh yeah I forgot about a 3rd option, there's a software called alvr that can connect your quest to your pc over a wire, and it works a bit better than reverse tethering. https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/ALVR-wired-setup-(ALVR-over-USB)

Update, it doesn't work. The program itself runs fine, but as soon as I try to port-forward it and run it through the cable, it fails to stream anything, constantly disconnecting and reconnecting without even an error message. A bit unfortunate, but it felt too good to be true anyways.

[diced]

Originally posted by Joryho:

Originally posted by diced:

Oh yeah I forgot about a 3rd option, there's a software called alvr that can connect your quest to your pc over a wire, and it works a bit better than reverse tethering. https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/ALVR-wired-setup-(ALVR-over-USB)

Update, it doesn't work. The program itself runs fine, but as soon as I try to port-forward it and run it through the cable, it fails to stream anything, constantly disconnecting and reconnecting without even an error message. A bit unfortunate, but it felt too good to be true anyways.

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