>>298718751
>Just learned you can plug the quest into a pc now.
So here's the rub about oculus link. You can use the charging cable that comes with the Quest to plug into your pc. It's a low bandwidth cable though, and the rift software reads the connection as USB 2.0 no matter which port you put it into. While this works (and I use it regularly), it limits the transfer bandwidth which increases compression, AND it doesn't charge your Quest while connected (or if it does charge it, it's charging at a much lower rate than its using, because the battery will drain at at the regular rate).

You can get a higher quality cable that Rift reads as USB 3.0, which will have less compression and also charges it. Oculus sells a 16' fibre optic cable for this purpose, but that's $80. Oculus also recommends a certain Anker cable as one that works for $20, although it's only 10' long. Amazon also has listing for dozens of "Oculus Link compatible cables" in the $20-$30 range, all of which have reviews like pic related. "Works perfectly, 3.0 connection!" "Doesn't work, only 2.0 connection!"

Besides cables though, there are a few wireless options. Virtual Desktop is a $20 program (buy it in the quest store) that lets you to directly stream the video data from your graphics card to your headset over LAN. This let's you play any SteamVR game from your computer while staying wireless. It's great and what I use whenever my network isn't busy. There may be other programs that offer the same functionality now, but I don't know them.