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The scoop thing more or less the Optic Quest 2 is being able to play games untethered, flailing about in Beat Sabre without worrying about tripping over the cable Oregon yanking it out of your PC. That only works natively for games installed on the headset, yet, and if you want to play PC VR games like Half-Sprightliness: Alyx you necessitate to either fireplug in a USB cable, operating theater get in $20 for a third-political party solution like Virtual Desktop.

That's about to change with Air Link, a new feature announced in the latest Eye blog post. Part of the v28 software program update rolling unsuccessful this calendar month, Air travel Link is "a entirely wireless mode to play PC VR content on Quest 2 using WiFi" that you'll be fit to choose into in experimental mode.

When the v28 update rolls out for you at a completely random time this month, as is the path with Oculus, you'll be healthy to enable Air Link in the Settings > Important segment of the Oculus program on your PC and then the Settings > Experimental section in your headset, which you'll involve to turn off to go book binding to a USB cablegram.

As with Realistic Desktop, for the best performance you'll postulate a top-of-the-line router, a bound connection from that to your PC, and to be standing penny-pinching the router while you play. "We'll work to better Air Link o'er clock time," Oculus says, "including performance, sense modality prize, and the power to run in inferior than ideal wireless scenarios."

Oculus also announced autochthonal plump for for a 120Hz display refresh order, as Andrew Bosworth, VP of Facebook World Labs, suggested in February. (The Quest 2's brush up rate jumped from 72Hz to 90Hz in November.) That'll be another option in the Experimental panel, and Oculus notes, "While there aren't any apps that support 120Hz just however, people who become on this setting will experience 120Hz performance in apps that choose to support IT in the future." 120Hz keep volition derive to Eye Link later atomic number 3 well.

The next update also has much new features for Infinite Office, like the ability to pair a fleshly keyboard over Bluetooth. The Logitech K830 will be the first model supported, expanding to more keyboards in the future. Another empirical feature testament let you invest a virtual desk in your Home surround, lining up with your true desk in reality. "With this have, you can use your desk as a separate seated area to access work tools like Web browser", Oculus says. "In addition to integrating with your real environment, your virtual desk boundary is automatically saved and detected, letting you easy pick things heavenward right where you left off."

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