How to Setup Oculus Quest 1, 2 and 3 to Run with Dolphin VR

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How to Setup Oculus Quest 1, 2 and 3 to Run with Dolphin VR Using Air Link, Steam Link, Virtual Desktop and the Physical Link Cable:)
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IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT: You must have a VR ready/capable PC. Your Oculus Quest is only acting like a high-resolution screen when connecting to your computer. As all of the games including VR will be running off the specs of your PC.


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Table of Contents:
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-Introduction

-Connecting to Your PC with Air link (NOT RECCOMMENDED)

-Connecting to PC with the Steam Link App Using Quest 3

-Connecting to Your PC with Virtual Desktop and SteamVR (Preferred over Airlink)

-Connecting to Your PC with the Physical Oculus Link Cable

-Oculus Link Cable PC Requirements

-Controllers: How to Setup your Oculus Touch Controllers with Virtual Desktop, Auto Oculus Touch and Dolphin VR

-How to set up your Oculus Controllers as Emulated Wiimotes:

-Final Step

-Crashing Fix When Having Two Versions of the Dolphin Emulator on the Same Computer (Dolphin VR and Official Dolphin conflicts.)

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Introduction:
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I've seen a lot of people having issues getting Dolphin VR or PPSSP VR to run of either Oculus Quest or Oculus Quest 2. A couple users have decided to make some quick setup guides to help everyone out. Special thanks to users: Lobzilla, Whoblue579 and Quensetsu.




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Connecting to Your PC with Air link: (NOT RECCOMMENDED)
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From user Lobzila:

Do not install anything on your Quest (Do not install Dolphin VR on your headset it needs to be started from your desktop)

Open Dolphin VR on your computer.

In your Quest 2, go to Quick Settings, Oculus Air Link, and Launch the air link to your computer. You may have to pair it first if you have never air linked your Quest 2 to your computer.

On the bottom navigation bar, go to "Add Desktop Panel" and select "Dolphin". This should make the Dolphin VR GUI appear on screen in your Quest 2.

Select the OoT ISO you want to launch and hit the Play button, either within the Oculus 2 or on your desktop

If Airlink isn't working you can use this program ALVR to help it connect (from user Whoblue579):

https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR


From user Quensetsu: I had issues with the air link not working too. What I did to fix that is:

Kill all Oculus tasks in the task manager,

Wait 10 seconds (for everything to finish dying)

Reopen the Oculus desktop app

Restart your Quest

After doing this, my air link always works. It must have something to do with the Oculus and/or computer going to sleep, and them not being able to re-establish a proper connection afterwards. That's my theory at least.


Reported Quest 3 Air Link issues:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1atw2vv/quest_3_air_link_just_died/




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-Quest Headsets and Air Link Issues: (Alternate connection methods, Asynchronous Spacewarp, Video Backends):
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Some Quest 3 headset users have reported erratic fps issues in games when connecting to PC with Air Link. The main cause can be the video encode before streaming it over wifi to the headset, which can be very resource heavy. The solution seems to be connecting the headset with the physical Link Cable or Virtual Desktop. Also depends how you have your wireless router set up, it should be with a good quality Ethernet cable directly to the PC and the router should also be next to the play space. It's also important to choose a WiFi channel that isn't congested. All of these really help the performance

And if you haven't already, you can also disable Asynchronous Spacewarp or ASW in the Oculus Debug tool menu. This will also increase performance. You can find the debug tool in C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics. Go to (PC)  Asynchronous Spacewarp and disable it. Turning this off also gets rid of glitchy, wavy artifacts. You might have to do this every time you restart Oculus or your computer so make a shortcut to the desktop.

IMPORTANT!!: Make sure to disable/turn off (PC)  Asynchronous Spacewarp 'before' starting up the Dolphin VR emulator and game. As sometimes the setting doesn't apply or can turn back to auto, if turning it off while the emulator is running. You will also have to disable it again each time you turn on/off your PC as the setting doesn't get saved permanently.

Lastly, found in Graphics/General, switching the video backend from Direct3D 11 to OpenGL helped some crashing issues but lowered performance. Each user will vary. If you don't notice any performance issues, I recommend keeping Direct3D 11 as your video backend. Special thanks to Discord user nan.

Note: To setup your touch controllers see below:




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Connecting to PC with the Steam Link App Using Quest 3
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From user DetectiveYoshi

" I just started Steam on my PC, and then the Steam link app in the quest 3 headset, it auto opens Steam VR and after that I just start Dolphin VR or PPSSPP VR like normal. Steam link is the new free app that can be downloaded from the Quest 3 store to play wireless. There is this other free app from Oculus, the air link, but I couldn't install it because the software didn't log me in as intended, so I need to look into that further. I didn't change anything in settings in Steam VR or Steam link or Steam. I just allowed Steam to stream to other devices, but that option was On by default. "

" I don't know if this really works, but sometimes I start the emulator in non-VR first to bind the controls to the emulator because Steam tries to steal them when I open it first. Actually this seems to work."



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Connecting to Your PC with Virtual Desktop and SteamVR: (Preferred over Airlink)
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After connecting your headset to the computer through Virtual Desktop, choose “Launch SteamVR” from the Virtual Desktop menu. This attaches SteamVR to the headset. Then initiate DolphinVR through the desktop in SteamVR. When you select a ROM to play, DolphinVR has a runtime to attach itself to, and starts playing in the headset.




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Connecting to Your PC with the Physical Oculus Link Cable:
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If you'd like to use Oculus Link to connect your Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest to a PC, you'll first need to download the Oculus PC app by visiting oculus.com/setup:

https://www.meta.com/quest/setup/?utm_source=www.reddit.com&utm_medium=oculusredirect


and clicking Download Software below Oculus Link. You should also review the Oculus Link compatibility requirements and confirm the following:




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Oculus Link Cable PC Requirements
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Oculus Link Compatibility Requirements:

https://www.meta.com/help/quest/140991407990979/?utm_source=www.reddit.com&utm_medium=dollyredirect


Keep in mind, if your card isn't listed as Supported, we can’t guarantee compatibility.

You're using a high-quality USB cable capable of supporting data and power.

Your Oculus software is up to date on both your PC and your headset.

Once you've confirmed these requirements, you can begin using your Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest with Link:

Open the Oculus app on your PC.

Turn on your Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest.

Plug your USB 3 cable into a USB 3.0 port on your PC, then plug the other end into your headset.

A message displays in VR prompting you to Allow access to data. Select Deny. If you mistakenly 'Allow' the prompt, you must unplug your USB cable from the headset and plug it back in.

When prompted to Enable Oculus Link, select Enable to begin remote rendering using Oculus Link.

If you're unable to enable Oculus Link:

If you don't see Add Meta Quest as the device on the PC software: log out of the PC software and log back in.

If you don't see the Enable Link pop-up on the PC software: log out of the PC software and log back in.

If you don't see the Enable Link option under Settings on your headset: completely power off the headset and restart.

If you have issues using or setting up Oculus Link, please review our Troubleshooting Tips and Known Issues. You can also contact Support for additional help.





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Controllers: How to Setup your Oculus Touch Controllers with Virtual Desktop, Auto Oculus Touch and Dolphin VR:
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(Special thanks to Naigaru)


For the controllers, you need to either;

Use virtual desktop as the way to play which has 2 gamepad options, or;

Setup the auto oculus touch ahk script (the page will tell you how to set it all up for gamepad use)


Full instructions found here: (Make sure to read the Readme file.)

https://github.com/rajetic/auto_oculus_touch

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Visual Aid:
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Regarding Virtual Desktop:

You go to the 2 settings for the controllers, then it will stop letting you use them as a mouse, at that point, open Dolphin VR (or if open already, close it and reopen) and in the controller section do this;

https://pdsoasis.github.io/vrcontrollerconfig.png

or whichever the new xinput option is, mine would be xinput/1/gamepad (not connected so not in the list right now) then set the controls how you like.

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How to set up your Oculus Controllers as Emulated Wiimotes:
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Go to 07:22 of this setup video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xB9nJwGsFY

Your PC meets the recommended specs:

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PC Requirements
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The following table lists the current PC requirements for Oculus Link.

Component Recommended Specs Processor Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater Graphics Card See GPU tables belowMemory8 GB+ RAM Operating System Windows 10USB Ports1x USB port

**Please note: the Radeon RX 6500 is not recommended for use with Link.



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Final Step:
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Now start Dolphin VR from your desktop and the game will load in your Quest 1 or 2 headset automatically. For how to set up Touch Controllers in Dolphin VR see the controllers section above.


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Crashing Fix When Having Two Versions of the Dolphin Emulator on the Same Computer (Dolphin VR and Official Dolphin conflicts.)
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If you have two versions of Dolphin on your computer (Dolphin VR and the normal Dolphin emulator) you will have conflicts between the config files. This can also cause Dolphin to completely crash as well.

You have to make a text file or notebook file called portable.txt and place that in the official Dolphin emulator folder. This will stop the sharing between both emulators and keep all of your config changes and files from the official Dolphin emulator, separate from Dolphin VR.