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Oculus Quest can work as a PC VR headset with the Oculus Link feature that was introduced in beta late last year. At launch, the feature only supported USB 3.0 cables, which is somewhat cumbersome it did not Includes the cable that came in the box with Quest. A recent update to Oculus Link now allows Quest to use the feature with USB 2.0 cables, including the included one.
While some people already seem to have received the necessary update for their Oculus desktop software to support connecting to Quest with USB 2.0 cables, if you can’t seem to get it working, you may need to go for the beta version of Oculus software.
Oculus has not made an official announcement about the change, but quietly changed the Oculus Link official specification from “1x USB 3.0 ports” to simply “1x USB port”.
It’s unclear whether the change is due to optimizations in Oculus Link that may have reduced bandwidth requirements, or whether the company had simply set the bar too high in the first place.
That makes it a little awkward that Oculus has introduced its own $ 80 Oculus Link cable, just to flip it around and make it so that the cable that comes bundled with Quest works well. Granted, the cable included with Quest is only 10 feet long, a little too short for our liking, while the official Oculus Link cable is 16 feet more comfortable.
That said, Cas & Chary tested the included USB 2.0 Quest cable with a USB extender and found that it works well too, so we still highly recommend choosing a low-cost extender for more slack.
It must be said that the USB cables with more bandwidth may It allows higher quality images when using Oculus Link, but so far we have seen no reports that this is the case. While it’s convenient to be able to use the USB 2.0 cable included with Quest for Oculus Link, if you plan on getting a longer cable or an extender, it is probably wise to get a USB 3.0 cable just to prepare for the future with more bandwidth
