physically connecting the goggles

The first thing to do is to make sure the Quest goggles are phyically connected correctly. To start, the main monitor in room 313 can be switched from the Macintosh computer to the Windows computer -- it will need to be set to the Windows machine, obviously.

If it needs to be switched from the Macintosh, at the very bottom/center and back a little bit is a small joystick-like switcher that allows for changing the input to the monitor.





Push up on it and this menu should appear:




Moving the little joystick to the left, to select "Input", will bring up the following menu on the right-hand side of the monitor screen:





Use the joystick-thing to select "DisplayPort". The Windows desktop should now be showing.

Now check to see if the goggles are turned on. There is a little pushbutton on the side:






Next, check to be sure the long USB cable is plugged into the goggles:





And be sure that the USB cable is plugged into one of the USB ports on the back top of the Windows computer (NOTE: You can also use these for a thumb drive to transfer your Unity project(s) to the Windows machine.):





It might be advisable to start up the "Meta" Windows application (on the taskbar), but if you don't it should be invoked automatically when configuring the goggles with the Questlink (below).

setting up the Questlink

(NOTE: In the following, 'clicking' means aiming one of the controllers and pulling the trigger when the proper menu-item is selected)

After getting the goggles wired into the PC, you will need to connect to the PC from the goggles. Put on the goggles and you should see a main 'console' display something like this (don't worry if it has different panels and/or background displaying, we're just going to use it to conifgure our Quest Link to the PC) (NOTE: You may see some warnings about 'objects being within your boundary'. Unless you plan to be dancing around room 313 with the goggles on, you can safely ignore these and click "Continue".):





Find the little "gear" icon down on the right-hand side of the control panel and click on it:




This should bring up a display like this:




Click on "System" in the upper left, and this should appear:



(NOTE: "Display" was selected and it is showing information about the Quest display. One of the others on the left may have been selected when this appears. That's ok.)

Select "Quest Link" a little over 1/2-way down in the left menu. This should be the result:




Click the little icon to the right of the "Launch Quest Link" entry, and this should happen:




You can then choose to use the "Air Link" option, meaning you don't have to connect the goggles to the PC with a cable, but it has been unstable lately. The cable is recommended for now.

Click "Launch" and it should connect to the PC. Running Unity configured for VR will now display through the goggles, and the left- and right-hand controllers should work as well (NOTE: You can still use the main PC monitor display with Unity and the arrow-keys to get around with Questlink enabled.)

preparing a Unity project for VR viewing

(NOTE: This is done on the computer running your Unity project; this is not done using the Quest goggles.)

In order to view a Unity project in VR, "XR Plugin Management" needs to be set up. This can be done on your computer (OSX or Windows) or on the Windows computer in room 313. It probably makes more sense to do it on the 313 machine.

This assumes you are using the "brad-observer2020" package. If not, you will need to do a bit more work to configure the Unity camera properly. This is not discussed here.

First, select "Project Settings" from the main Unity "Edit" menu:





This will bring up a "Project Settings" subwindow, Select and click on the "XR Plugin Management" menu-entry on the left (at the bottom), Then go ahead and click "Install XR Plugin Management" in the main paft of the window:




After installing the "XR Plugin Management" (should take a minute or two), the following should appear:




Be sure that "Initialize XR on Startup" is checked and then select/check "Oculus" as a Plug-in Provider.

After Unity has finished installing the Oculus plugin package, an entry "Oculus" shoud appear under the "XR Plugin Management" menu item in the left menu of the "Project Settings" window:





Select this menu item, and this should result:




If the "Stereo Rendering Mode" is set to "Single Pass Instance", you will need to change it to "Multi Pass":




Once you have done this, you can close the "Project Settings" window, and when you 'play' your Unity scene it will render to a properly connected/configured Quest headset.

a few additional things

When you are done, find the "Settings" through the goggles (I don't have a screen-shot of this). Click on it, and you want to find the "Disable Quest Link" button. Click on it to terminate the link between the goggles and the Windows computer.

Leave the goggles plugged in to the computer via the long USB cable, though. This will keep them charged up.


If you are not hearing audio, check your audio settings by clicking on the lttle speaker icon on the lower right part of the Windows machine taskbar:





You can also adjust the audio volume using the 'rocker' switch on the bottom of the Quest goggles: