One of many highlights of watching Beat Saber streamers is, inevitably, all of the cool mods and customized songs they use. You may assume you want an advanced PC setup and an much more sophisticated set of modding instruments to get this, however fortunately SideQuest is enabling this sort of performance on the Oculus Quest with little or no effort. Sideloading apps is the right means of unlocking the complete potential of your Oculus Quest, and it permits customers to put in free video games and mods for present video games from the Oculus Retailer.
You could or is probably not conscious that the Oculus Quest runs a customized model of Android below the hood. As such, loading apps onto the Quest is finished in an analogous solution to that of an Android telephone. Sideloading was designed as a means for builders to check the apps and video games they’re creating, which implies you want to enroll in a “developer” profile on the Oculus website earlier than starting. Don’t fear, it is a free course of and it requires little greater than an e-mail tackle to do it.
Try the easy-to-follow steps on the SideQuest web site to get this carried out. You should utilize the SideQuest installer on any laptop that runs Home windows, Mac, or Linux.
The newest replace for SideQuest (v0.6.3) contains some UI enhancements that make it simpler to seek out what you’re in search of, in addition to a solution to mechanically discover out when SideQuest wants an app replace. Proper now you’ll nonetheless must manually replace SideQuest when an replace is obtainable, however the developer has all of the pillars in place to make this an automatic course of within the close to future.
SideQuest gained its recognition from its capability to load the ‘Beat On’ suite of mods for Beat Saber, which supplies Oculus Quest customers the identical freedom of modding and customized songs that they’d discover on the PC model of Beat Saber. If something, the Quest model of those mods is less complicated to make use of as a result of it requires no file administration and may be dealt with from inside the Quest headset itself, not like the PC model which requires interplay with the desktop UI earlier than leaping into VR.
This newest model of SideQuest permits for enhanced ‘Beat On’ performance by offering mods straight from the SideQuest retailer, with simple search and filter performance, giant thumbnails, and easy descriptions of precisely what you’re in search of. Need Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber whereas making an attempt to slice via Camellia’s newest songs? How about new colours for blocks and partitions? It’s a single click on away with SideQuest.
Or how about enjoying some traditional PC first-person shooters in VR? Each id Software program’s Quake and Valve’s Half-Life can each be discovered on the SideQuest launcher, and whilst you’ll want the unique recreation from Steam to legally have the ability to play it, these titles solely price virtually nothing (Quake is $1.64 as of this writing). There are tons of different fully-free titles on right here as properly, and plenty of neighborhood help and a devoted developer is making SideQuest higher on a regular basis.
