Meta may be working with wireless manufacturer D-Link to create a USB wireless air link dongle that will connect your headset to your PC for more PCVR goodness.

Basically take air link or Virtual Desktop but instead of relying on the quality of your router and it’s connection that’s probably shared with 15 other devices in your house you rely on a single connection from your headset to this wireless USB dongle currently known as VR Air Bridge. 

Twitter user ItsKaitlyn03 a software engineer discovered the code found inside a new driver update package from Oculus. Kaitlyn believes this VR Air Bridge is based off the D-Link AX1800 Wifi 6 USB adapter that currently sells for $65 which basically gives your PC an external wifi card. This Meta Dongle would do the same but a direct connection from your quest 2 your pc. This would absolutely boost the quality and stability of airlink for most people especially those without wifi 6 routers. And with many of us sharing our wifi router connection with people in our home and probably aren’t able to be right next to our router, a dedicated wireless connection would be primo. 

This dongle was actually alluded to back in 2021 during a twitter spaces conversation with Oculus CTO John Carmack and VP of Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth. Lets listen in:

Well I hope this possible dongle won’t be “boutique” and at $200 be more expensive than the renewed 64 gig models of the Quest 2 floating around.. I do wonder if there will be another piece that plugs into the usb c port of my headset to handle the connection? I assume that there would be and then the question of battery life comes into effect and its all a mess from there. 

But at the end of the day this is all conjecture though it could be very promising for the future.

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Learn how to download oculus quest 2 videos to your PC for editing. Grab those Meta Quest 2 video files and make something epic!

To Download your quest 2 videos to your PC. Turn on your headset then Grab a usb C cable and connect your headset to your PC. Now jump inside your headset and hit allow permission on the prompt that shows. Then go back to your PC, you may see a setting pop up box showing that your quest 2 is plugged in. Now under your file explorer scroll on the left side to find your quest 2 then double click internal shared storage then, oculus, then video shots and booya there are all your clips. You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope that helps

You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope this helps and happy editing!

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Here's how to download your oculus quest gameplay videos to your mac for editing and posting to the socials.

To Download your quest 2 videos to your MAC we first will need to download the android file transfer app: https://www.android.com/filetransfer/.

Once that is installed go ahead and turn on your headset, then Grab a usb C cable and connect your quest to your mac. Now jump inside your headset and hit allow access to data on the prompt that shows.

Then go back to your mac and hopefully Android File Transfer automatically popped up if not just open the program and you will see the file folder index of your quest in there.

Now click the oculus folder, then video shots and booya there are all your clips.

You can also delete your videos from here after you drag and drop them to your computer if you need to save space. Hope this helps and happy editing!

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Meta announced its MetaQuest Gaming Showcase for 2022 So to prepare us for our future I figured let's take a look at the past oculus quest gaming showcase and then make some predictions for what we could expect for game announcements this year.

So the run down from last year the show was hosted by Oculus executive Producer Ruth Bram and she has confirmed she will be hosting again this year. Ruth announced updates for Pistol Whip, War Hammer, The Climb 2, Star Wars Tales from the galaxy’s edge and finishing the show with the afterschocks update for Walking Dead Saints and Sinners. 

As far as new titles for the quest went Lone Echo 2 was announced along with Star Wars Pinball, I expect you to die 2, carve snowboarding, after the fall, wraith the oblivion afterlife and of course Resident Evil 4. Which took up the bulk of the show as we all know now it should have. So inside the 27 minute presentation we learned about 7 new titles hitting quest and 5 big updates for previously released titles. 

I will say many of the updates and new games were revealed to be hitting the oculus store either the day of the event or within the next month so this years showcase may have some actionable titles to play right after the presentation, along with a flash sale in the oculus store. And who doesn’t love to save that meta cash!?

For this years presentation we have already seen confirmation that Among US will be featured as they stated on twitter and I’m hoping we get a full release date slash the ol’ and its available now E3 moment but we shall see. Games I’m hoping to see more of and hopefully get a release date for are Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, (lets hope we don’t have to buy the newly revealed GTA+ woof) and those Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell VR games we haven’t heard much of since 2020. 

We do know from Facebook Connect that the devs of After The Fall, Vertigo Games are working on four new releases for the quest and they confirmed some of the titles they are working on are set in game worlds from deep silver so maybe we will see something from saints row or Dead Island? 

And lastly Boneworks creators Stress Level Zero have been working on a Quest game for quite some time now that I’m really hoping gets announced and that it somehow tied to boneworks, because a standalone Q2 boneworks would be amazing. I also wonder if we will hear about this new annual NFL game from StatusPro. I guess we shall see.

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The Public Test version of the Quest Update 39 hit yesterday and thanks to our friend Lubos V we got a look at some of the new features which include the ability to adjust space sense so you could have it kick in at 1 meter 2 or 3 or for us non metric fools about 4, 7 and 10 feet. You can now also sign out from messenger which I guess I never really noticed you couldn’t before which inherently just feels very on brand for meta book. With those lackluster feature updates a new set of fun bugs also arrived. And of course I preface this with the fact that this is a beta release and test so the bugs are understandable but its always good to know what bugs exist just in case you encounter them in the actual release version like uh you know the fiasco that was version 38. 

Okay so here we go, infinite office looks to be there but it constantly crashes, 2D Apps are crashing, and the one I’m worried about the most there is a controller firmware update which has led to some tracking issues and placing you in a menuless black void.  Another bug submitted by a user showed they no longer had the ability to choose a 120hz refresh rate and they are locked to 72. Lets hope that isn’t going to be the case for future. Lastly and well weirdly for the update the power off dialog box has a different design and Lubos says when turning off the headset it glows the oculus logo. Maybe thats meta trolling, start up your headset and say hi to meta but turn it off to say so long to your old friend oculus. I’m sure its just an oversight. 

Now inside the code of this new update VR genius, youtuber and data miner Brad Lynch found new updated lines of code to the codenamed projects for Metas future headsets. From the code he predicts there may be 3 different headsets in the works for meta. A Micro OLED Cambria code named seabrght which until this update had been dormant as far as code updates go, then a MiniLED cambria (sea cliff) which is more than likely already in the hands of devs and will be announced probably before the end of 2022 and then the Quest 3, which still not much is known. Bradley believes cambria will have a pro and standard model much like the Iphone Pro and iPhone pro max. We shall see what the zuck reveals in the coming months.

Nonetheless shout out to SadlyItsbradley for his skill and Lubos for the access. A link to  their channels are in the description. Let’s hope the bugs get fixed and version 39 goes over better than 38.

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Some more tips for Nock VR and frequently asked questions answered by the developers Normal of Nock.

How do I adjust the music volume?

• In V1.1.1 Volume sliders were added in the pause menu. The changes you make will stay between matches.

• Pause the match (if your quick menu is the right controller, press the left controllers oculus button, and vice versa)

• Volume sliders will be on the left.

How can I mute the enemy?

• While in game open the pause menu and Use the mute buttons next to player names on the left hand side. You can also mute yourself.

If you have stick drift You can disable thumbstick input by selecting Turn mode "None" from the pause menu. The changes you make in this menu will stay between matches.

How do I change the bot difficulty?

• From the main menu start a custom match and add the bots you would like.

• Once in game, pause the match and On the right hand side there is a drop down menu where you can select the difficulty level! If you want to hate yourself Try the "On fire" mode!

Now lets talk about blocks.

A block can be used to interrupt your enemies play and redirect the ball.

• After firing an arrow, press A while it is in flight.

• The angle of your bow when you press A determines the angle of the block when placed. And if the ball hits your block you get an arrow back for it which makes it a little less risky if you are good with blocks.

How do I get down when I jump into the air?

• You can use your pulling hand to grab the air and throw downward, launching yourself upwards but under stand the longer you spend in the air aka the higher you jump  the less effective your  movement will be until you are near the floor, wall or ceiling again. One tip is to use the grip button on your bow hand to grab the air and push upward to basically fight gravity and get down more quickly but this really only works if you jumped once and not double jumped.

How do I get the ball to move more quickly?

• Shooting the ball once will get it rolling, shooting it twice rapidly will increase its speed exponentially, so try and get a quick first shot and then a longer more powerful shot right after to get the ball speed up. Try using this on kickoffs to get the ball going into your opponents territory right of the jump.

• Also the players speed is added to the arrow speed when you shoot.. So use your movement momentum to get faster ball speeds. When you are attacking the opponents goal.

Extra tip here if you need to increase your accuracy just enable the reticle in the menu. 

Does the arena size change?

• Thy answer is yes, the arena size changes between the match types. 1v1 is the smallest, 2v2 is medium and 3v3 is of course HUGE.

Here is a quick tip For getting the max shot strength quickly with less effort
Imagine T posing with your controllers in your hand, face towards your bow hand with the hole in your bow hand fist facing upwards, now take your arrow hand and point the hole in your arrow fist behind you (edited)

Take your standard bow pullback pose not when you pull back turn the controller out and away rather than as far back as you can. This puts more distance between the two controller rings maximizing your shot power more quickly.

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