Quest3 users, I would like to know what is the best way to run this Meta VR device, the wired or wifi version. I only use AC, some flysims and maybe in the future a space game.
Or are both good!
hi, that depends what is "best" for you... both are good. I would say try for yourself and see which you like best!
I have tried wireless (bought a very good wifi 6n router just for that purpose ) and went back to wired.
Using the
Meta Link wireless way was significantly noticeably worse pic quality (I should give it another spin to see if updates have fixed that - but reasonably wired will always win over wireless as you always have an extra layer of overhead and more chance of interference).
Then again the (paid)
Remote Desktop solution was quite good and the visuals
almost the same as with wire.
I played long Halflife Alyx sessions with it, hardly seeing any fidelity loss or glitch, and the freedom to turn around while standing is a very big plus.
Virtual Desktop is certainly worth the purchase and would be the better choice if you do long flight sessions I think...
as you could once being on auto pilot stand up and walk to the restroom if needed without taking of your headset!
The thing that got me to switch back to Link via cable though was this:
After each session in AC I needed to pick up my controller to close the Steam VR session to get back to my CM window.
With wired Link experience is much more streamlined imho. I get out of a VR session and immediately see my desktop and CM again so I don't need my controllers at all.
As someone who downloads and tests multiple cars per day , that in the end was more important to me,
than the extra immersion of not feeling the weight of a theater running from my head to the pc.
(which I also greatly reduced by hanging the cable from a higher point with just enough slack , rather then have the cable just lie on the ground, pulling the headset down on 1 side).
One more thing : once VD driver is installed, Link over cable didn't work anymore. So it is one or the other!
I need to uninstall the VD software and drivers in order to get Meta Link working again. (don't know if that has been fixed in the mean time. I tried several iterations of VD updates and finally gave up hope of it getting fixed...)
So keep that in mind when you have tried VD and want to switch back to Meta Link via cable method, you may need to uninstall Virtual Desktop first.
If not for that I would use Link cable for AC and Virtual desktop (for any other games) side by side depending the use-case.
but having to install and uninstall each time made me decide to just stick to the Link cable.
(
if anyone knows this is fixed now, please let me know! )
EDIT: tried VD again and 1 more huge upside of using Meta Link cable : you can keep AC set to Oculus renderer instead of having to go via OpenVR and Steam, and you can use the ODT (Oculus Debug Tool) to set your FOV (I set it to 0.85; 0.5 ) for a huge GPU headroom saving, and to turn off ASW :
This will give you massive headroom to set render details way higher then usual...
(setting 80fps and max out to 1.3x render in the Meta Quest Link app for my Quest3)
I also have my AC/CM setting cranked up in thus way that when I now switch to OpenVR render mode ,
and not being able to use that FOV trick , I get a 200% GPU usage, a mere unplayable 35FPS !
While in Oculus render mode , I have approx 50-70% GPU usage, a steady 80 fps and the added bonus of feeling I have a helmet on!
This makes me wanna stick to the cable for AC definitely.
So uninstall VD it is again for me ...
EDIT 7/6/2025: tried the latest
VD and it also includes an
FOV limiting setting now to gain headroom!
but still I prefer Meta Link via cable for ease of use (after each session I return to my CM automatically, and don't need to pick up a controller in order to get back in the CM menu)
Also the bug is still there when VD is installed I can't run AC in Meta Link... So I need to uninstall VD, then it works again
(and reinstalling /uninstalling each time is a pain, otherwise for other games I would maybe use VD instead of cable).
If anyone has the same (it's prob only on Win10 this issue as others reported VD and Link not clashing) and finds a workaround/solution, please share!
www.surfacethai.net
www.sordum.org
and tried it. so far so good.
