Intel Partners with Meta to Optimize Flagship Wi-Fi Card for Low Latency PC VR Gaming on Quest 2 - Road to VR

Quest 2 users person a fewer choices erstwhile it comes to cutting the cablegram and playing PC VR games implicit Wi-Fi. You tin opt for thing like a dedicated dongle, oregon simply configure your web for the astir optimal Wi-Fi setup, which usually means having your PC connected straight to the 2.4/5Ghz router with an Ethernet cablegram and maintaining enactment of show with the router. If your PC has Intel’s latest Wi-Fi 6e AX1690 paper though, that’s astir to change.

Intel announced astatine CES 2023 that they’ve partnered with Meta to marque amended usage of its flagship Wi-Fi paper by optimizing it for usage with Quest 2, which means reduced latency and nary request for Ethernet cables connecting to your PC.

As reported by Wi-Fi Now, Intel says its Killer Wi-Fi 6e AX1690 paper is present susceptible of utilizing its Double Connect Technology (DCT) for VR headsets similar Quest 2. Although the merchandise of an Intel/Meta partnership, Intel’s it’s apt different standalone headsets volition payment too, including Pico 4 and the newly unveiled Vive XR Elite too.

Intel says AX1690, which is compatible with the Intel’s 13th-gen Core HX platform, is susceptible of reducing wide wireless PC VR gaming latency from 30ms to conscionable 5ms, fundamentally making it indistinguishable from accepted wired connections, specified arsenic Link. We haven’t seen it successful enactment yet, truthful we’re reserving judgement for now, but it fundamentally seems similar having each the functionality of that slick $99 dongle from D-Link, albeit built into your PC gaming rig.

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“I’m a steadfast believer that pushing the boundaries of wireless successful VR and AR volition lone beryllium imaginable if the full manufacture enactment together,” said Meta Reality Labs Wireless Technology main Bruno Cendon Martin. “I’m highly blessed to spot the denote contiguous by Intel Corporation Wireless CTO Carlos Cordeiro of the enactment we’ve been doing unneurotic to get Wireless PC VR to the adjacent level with Meta Quest and Intel Killer.”

Intel besides released a video to show the benefits of utilizing 2 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections which alteration VR headsets to wirelessly entree information straight from a PC (1-hop) vs. done an entree constituent (2-hops) for reduced latency and amended PC VR gaming experiences passim the home.