Intel's Flagship Wi-Fi Chip Can Now Directly Connect To Meta Quest Headsets - UploadVR

Intel’s highest extremity Wi-Fi spot tin present straight link to Meta Quest headsets.

Quest headsets already enactment wireless PC VR implicit your location Wi-Fi web (with the built-in Air Link diagnostic oregon 3rd enactment tools similar Virtual Desktop), oregon straight via D-Link’s $100 VR Air Bridge USB dongle.

Intel is present offering a caller mode to link erstwhile utilizing its AX1690 Wi-Fi 6E chip. It has a caller diagnostic called Double Connect Technology (DCT), which lets the spot support 2 abstracted Wi-Fi connections simultaneously, and Intel has partnered with Meta to enactment DCT with Quest. Your PC oregon laptop tin straight link to your headset portion inactive maintaining the Internet transportation via your router.

Unlike utilizing Air Link oregon Virtual Desktop, you don’t request to interest astir being adjacent to your router for a bully connection, and your PC doesn’t request to beryllium ethernet wired.

The effect should beryllium akin to D-Link’s dongle, but without the request for an outer device, and with enactment for the 6 GHz Wi-Fi frequence band. Quest Pro has a 6 GHz antenna and should person an update adding bundle enactment wrong a fewer months.

Intel claims that the transportation not having to spell via a router reduces latency by “up to 20%”, but Virtual Desktop developer Guy Godin disputes this claim.

AX1690 is contiguous successful immoderate precocious extremity laptops similar the Razer Blade 15, oregon tin beryllium purchased separately arsenic AX411 to beryllium integrated into a self-built PC.