Costing $20, the new app enables Mac owners to strap on the Oculus Rift and view their MacOS desktop across up to three virtual displays. The catch is that the app will work on “modern” Macs. That's assuming you can't get the Immersed app to work. ScreenLeap, along with Mikgo, send your computer / Mac screen to any of the Go's web browsers. Three of those browssers let you change your 360 environment. Other services, such as AnyDesk and TeamViewer require you to sideload Android apps and view them in Oculus TV. Oculus App Download For Mac; Oculus Go Download Apps; Download Oculus for PC/Mac/Windows 7,8,10 and have the fun experience of using the smartphone Apps on Desktop or personal computers. So before we get into Sideloading Games and Apps through SideQuest, there are a few things that you’ll need: 1. An Oculus Quest ( obviously) 2.
Connect to your computer to watch movies, browse the web or play games on a giant virtual screen or in various theater environments. Freeze app with mac. Virtual Desktop is a highly optimized, native application developed for low latency, high quality streaming. Connect up to 4 computers (requires Windows 8.1 or 10 64-bit). Supports Bluetooth mice, keyboards and gamepads. For best quality/latency, a. Install apps that are not available on the Oculus Store (either as they were rejected, have not yet applied for a store listing, or otherwise). SideQuest is a third-party PC, Mac and Linux.
Recently I attended a conference where I needed to display a demonstration of what we were doing in VR on the Oculus Quest, the Quest has some great mechanisms for casting to a mobile phone or to a Chromecast device attached to a TV but when it comes to sharing to a laptop there isn’t really a good solution at the moment. Im sure that will all change when they bring out Oculus Link (for a wired connection anyway) but we needed something now.
After digging around on some forums and piecing some data together from youtube, forums and reddit I thought i would make a note of the end result here which enables you to use scrcpy, an android screen sharing utility, to share both with a wire but also wirelessly and also enables an easy way to capture video straight to the computer.
Initial Install and Setup
- Enable developer mode on your Oculus Quest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTFkLnJRLs)
- Plug the USB-C cable into your computer and the Quest, this also works with USB to USB-C
- If its your first time plugging into this computer you will need to accept the prompt within the device that allows you to access the device from the computer as per below and check the box to always allow if you want to skip this section in the future
- For Windows download and unzip the latest build of scrcpy from https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases a direct link for the current version when writing this is here: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/download/v1.10/scrcpy-win64-v1.10.zip
- For Mac the application is available in Homebrew. Install it using the following from a terminal window:
- You will also need
adb
. you can install this by running the following from a terminal window:
Sharing the Screen connected via cable
- Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) or and CD into the extracted folder from above
- Run the following command:
![Oculus mac app Oculus mac app](/uploads/1/3/4/0/134072285/343623392.png)
Sharing the Screen connected wirelessly
You will still need a cable to make an initial connection and start the client on the Quest and then you can disconnect and use wirelessly, use the following steps to connect wirelessly:
- Follow steps 1-4 above in the setup section
- Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and CD into the extracted folder from above
- While the device is connected via a cable run the following to find out what your Quests IP address is in the src section:
192.168
.
1.0
/
24
dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src
192.168
.
1.198
- Now run the following replacing the IP address below (192.168.1.198) as yours:
- Disconnect the cable from the PC and with the device disconnected run the command to connect to the device as below
Sharing Window
If everything worked above a new window should appear showing the device screen, you can then maximize this for a better demo window.
Testing was done with variations of the scrcpy command but the above was found to be the best viewing size to enable a good demo.
Oculus Desktop App
Recording the screen
There is also a great way to capture the screen while mirroring, add the following command options to the end of the scrcpy command above to do this:
Oculus Desktop App Mac Ios
To disable mirroring while recording:
Troubleshooting
Oculus Quest Desktop App
Connection Issues
If you get a blank window or are unable to connect when device is plugged in you should be able to run the following command from the same folder above:
Acapella mac app store. PS C:UsersalanDownloadsscrcpy-win64-v1.10> .adb.exe devices
List of devices attached
1PASH9AF839266 device
List of devices attached
1PASH9AF839266 device
The device should show above rather than:
PS C:UsersalanDownloadsscrcpy-win64-v1.10> .adb.exe devices
List of devices attached
1PASH9AF839266 unauthorized
List of devices attached
1PASH9AF839266 unauthorized
If you get the latter then make sure you have enabled developer mode and authorized the device as per step 1-3 above.
Target Machine refused connection when in wireless
If you receive a message like the following: “cannot connect to 192.168.1.198:5555: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)”
Reconnect the Quest to the computer and go from Step 3 in the wireless connection steps above, this is caused because the client on the quest stopped, normally as you reset the device.