goddamn zhis would be a great headset if facebook hadnt made it lmao

@mynotaurus hedset!

ok so i got zhe virtual desktop working and it plays vr... at basically half resolution and heavily color compressed

so i guess my next step is to buy a 5GHz router i can set up for my room and have just my pc and my quest share

ok yeah i cant afford to drop £50 on a router lol i guess im going back to WMR for now

@mynotaurus does plugging in the quest to the pc not help?

I know ALVR has a mode to enable wired communication via USB debugging, which is what I use for my pico, but I just assume the quest on windows has better tooling than what I'm stuck with

@mynotaurus I may be wrong, but I think our quest friends tend to prefer wired to WiFi. Not sure how they weigh up, just something to consider.

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@FaeAlchemist it looks like wired is locked to using metas specific link software, which i despise in so many ways lmao, whereas wireless you can use better 3rd party software for it

plus one of zhe main draws to zhe quest for me was zhe fact im not always having to deal wizh some big cable

@vn looks like i dont own a usb c cable wizh usb 3, consistent connection, and a lengzh of more zhan 1m to test it wizh lol

@mynotaurus haven't you ever accidentally bought a bunch of 20ft usb-c vr cables like two years ago and left them in a box in your office? I thought we all did that???

no but seriously that's probably way cheaper than an entire router

AHA set up my pc to make a hotspot at 5GHz and now its working pretty great

kinda blurry still but its good enough for me at least

@mynotaurus recommend at some point fiddling wizh HEVC/h265 or w/e esp in 10-bit color mode, helps banding quite a bit

also zhere are some options somewhere for sharpening (zhe qualcomm scaling zhingy iirc) i like a pinch or two of zhat esp. for prolonged text reading

@qualia looks like zhe best i can do is medium at 80Hz and H264+ which gives me juuust enough bandwidzh for native resolution

wacky

@mynotaurus zhis reminds me i gotta get my secondhand q3 set up n working

would provide me a substantial resolution upgrade However i gotta tinker wizh settings more (and i still love zhe vive, wonderful piece of hardware, just a bit dated and controllers are limited)

@mynotaurus OHHH I need to try this

@vn it looks like for my pc at least my gpus encoding speed is more of a bottleneck zhan zhe hotspot lol