If you've just got a Quest 2 then
here are some of the best life hacks, tips and tricks that you should be doing for
the Oculus Quest to make your life better. From getting a clearer picture through to
getting access to a whole host of free games and plenty of other hacks in between, all of
these are guaranteed to be life-changing! Well, they should at least make
your life a little bit better! So here are the world's, well, my, top 40. Yes, 40! Best life hacks tips and tricks
for the Oculus / Meta Quest 2. Stop unauthorized people getting access
to your Quest headset by locking it. You can do that by setting a lock pattern. This is
available in the settings of the headset itself, under the security tab. Once you set that,
unless you know the pattern you can't use it. Free money! Who doesn't want free money?!
Anybody can get free money from their Quest headset! This is through the referral link.
In the Oculus app on your phone, click on your avatar logo and there is a referral link. Click
on that and you will get a unique url. If you share that with a friend and they then go and buy
a Quest headset both you and your friend will get $30 of credit in the app store once they've
activated their headset. You can do that up to five times a month so if you know a
lot of friends that's a lot of money! When you're playing on your Quest headset you can
get a little bit turned around and not really know which ways forwards, backwards, left or right. If
you hold down the Oculus button on your controller it will reset the center of the game, or the
center of your view, to right in front of you. It's a great way to centralize and
get your bearings back together again. It is important to look after your eyes because,
let's face it, the screen isn't exactly too far from your eyes itself. So you can enable a night
mode if you want to play into the night. This acts a little bit like a blue filter and
reduces the amount of harmful blue rays that is going to hit your eyes. If you go
into the quick settings of your headset then there is a sun icon. Turn that on and that
will enable the blue light night mode. You will notice the colors change a little bit yellow.
That is the consequence of turning that on though. Still, what's more important?
The color, or your eyes? Flicker-free smooth gameplay is super important
and by default the Quest isn't running as fast as it could. It runs at 90 hertz by default. It
can run at 120 hertz. That will give you even smoother buttery gameplay. It does that though
at the detriment of battery life and sometimes in some games performance will suffer a little bit as
well. Still, generally, it is worth turning it on. So, go into the settings of your headset.
Go to the experimental tab and there is a 120 hertz toggle. Make sure you turn
that on. If it does make some of your games go funny then just go back into the
menu setting and turn it back off again. If you want to see the environment around you and
get your bearings for where you actually are then normally you just take off your headset. Now
you don't have to because now you can just tap the side of your headset and the cameras will
show you your outside world. This is called double-tap pass-through. You can turn
this on in the settings of your headset. So go into your settings. Go to the guardians
tab and turn on the “double tap pass-through” and now you can see the world around
you. To turn that off again just double tap the side of your headset again
and then you're back in your game. Show your mates your best
move by taking a screenshot. Hold down the Oculus button and
the trigger button of the right controller for about a second and it will
take a screenshot of what you're playing. Looking after your lenses and making sure
they're in the right position are crucial to making sure you get a clear picture in
your games. First up, make sure they're in the right position. The Quest itself has three
different positions for the lenses. One, two, or three, which equates to 58, 63 or 68mm.
That's the distance between both of your eyes which is called your IPD. Now if you
don't know what your ipd is then you can go and get apps on your phone for instance,
like Eye Measure, that will measure your IPD for you and then just go and select the
option that is closest to that measurement. Another hack you can do is that if your IPD is in
between those settings of 1,2 or 3, so the 58, 63, or 68, then you can actually put it halfway. Now
it's a little bit of a jiggle but you can kind of balance it on that halfway mark. So you might
find that actually works really well for you, and it's not exactly something that Oculus tells
you about…or is that ‘Meta’ now? I give up! Please protect your lenses, and make sure
you do that properly. Don't go and clean your lenses with a woolly jumper! Make
sure you use a proper cleaning cloth, either something that comes with a normal pair of
glasses or a camera lens cleaning cloth will do as well. You can also get lens protectors for your
Quest headset as well, so they cover your lenses and stop them from getting scratched, and a lot
of them have blue light filters built into them as well. You can also get prescription lenses as
well so you don't need to wear glasses when you're on your Quest headset. That can actually be really
useful because it actually prevents your lenses, or your glasses, from scratching the lenses
of the headset. Lots of options in that space. Don't leave your headset in direct
sunlight, and that includes inside the house as much as it does outside.
Those lenses can act as magnifying glasses and burn holes in the LCD screen that's
behind it so please put it in a case, put a cover over the lens, just make
sure there's no sun hitting those lenses. The guardian sets the boundary of
your gameplay on your Quest headset, and you can actually change the
color and the sensitivity of it. So if you're color blind, or you want
the guardian to stand out more or less, then that's a good option. So in the settings
on your Quest headset there is a ‘Guardian’ tab. Inside there you can change the color to blue,
which is what it is by default, and you can also change it to purple and yellow. You can also
change the sensitivity of it. This is incredibly useful in fast paced games where you might not
want it showing as often as it normally does. Even with the guardian turned on there's no
guarantee you're not going to punch someone in the face as they walk past you.
So in order to help with that there is ‘Space Sense’. This will show an outline
of anyone that invades your guardian space whilst you're playing. This is super
useful because I've got kids and dogs and cats and they all have a habit of
trying to walk through my feet as I'm playing. And adding on top of that, you can even add your
furniture into your VR space as well. So in the ‘Experimental’ tab in your settings there's an
‘add sofa into VR’ option that allows you to then draw out your sofa in real life, and then
that sofa then appears in your virtual life. Now whilst you're not going to use that for every
single game, for things like sitting back and watching a movie it's a really cool addition to
start adding your real life into your virtual one. If you don't have a third party
controller grip cover like this one then you can change the default wrist strap
that comes with the Quest 2 out-of-the-box into a makeshift hand grip. Simply take
the strap off the base. Wrap it around the ring at the top. Attach it to the
base again. Voila! Makeshift grip strap. And you don't even need controllers because you
can control the home screen and some games with your hands! You can do this by enabling
hand tracking. Go into the settings. Go into the ‘Hands and Controllers’ section
and turn on ‘hand tracking’. You can also enable ‘auto tracking’ and it will
then switch between the controllers and your hands because it knows whether
you put your controllers down or not. Doesn't work in all games, but in the
games it does work in it's pretty cool. You can install games from your phone! So if
you've got the Oculus app on your phone then you can browse the Oculus store on there, find
what you want, and then once you've found the game that you want simply click on ‘install
to headset’ or ‘install to Oculus Quest 2’. It will then make sure that the
game is installed on the headset because it's often easier to browse the store
on your phone than it is on the headset. And if you've bought a game and you don't like
it then you can get your money back. If you have owned a game for less than 14 days and played it
for less than two hours then you can get a refund. ‘App Lab’ games are experimental games that
haven't quite made it onto the main Quest store yet but are available in the Quest store,
which sounds a little bit confusing. But what it means is you can't find them in the main page
but you can find them if you search for them. Which isn't really helpful because if you're
trying to find experimental games then you can't find them unless you know the name,
which means you know the name of the game so what was the point in trying to
search for it in the first place?! Go to the SideQuest website where you can find a
tab which will show you all the ‘App Lab’ games are available. Then you can just browse that to
your heart's content. Find one that you like, and when you click on the link. It will send you to the main Oculus store where you can
then install the game on your headset. And when you are looking at games make sure
that you pay attention to the comfort rating. So this is a rating from ‘Comfortable’
to ‘Intense’ that tells you how, well, comfortable a game is. So the more intense
games are going to make you feel maybe more slightly nauseous and motion sickness than if
you had a more sedentary game where you just sat down. Echo VR is probably a great example
of a game that makes you feel nauseatingly sick because you're in a Zero-G environment, where
if you sat down and played Cubism, not so much. So just make sure you pick a game that's
suited to how much VR experience you've had. You can share your apps and games with up to
three other people on your headset so they don't have to go and buy the game, they can just
use your copy because you've gone and bought it already. So in the settings on the headset go
into ‘Accounts’ and go on ‘App Sharing’ and turn that on. That will then take you through a
process to go and add someone else's account. That person, when they log in, will then also
have access to all the games that you've got. So if you're a group of close friends, or family,
it's a great way where one person can buy the game and many people can play. Bear in mind though
that it is a one-way street so only the people that have been added can use the games of the
master account holder. The master account holder, or the first user of the Quest headset, can't
use the games of the people that you add later. If however, rather than share a game, you'd rather
buy a game for a friend? Well you can do that too. When you're in the App Store, and on the game
page of the game you want to buy for your friend, click on the three dots and there's
a ‘Buy for a Friend’ option. When you fill that out it will send a unique
code to the email address that you enter. So your friend essentially gets that game
for free because you bought it for them. So as well as games off the main Quest store,
and also the App Lab games, you can also sideload games onto your Quest headset as well using
SideQuest. This gives you access to a whole wealth of games outside of the Oculus Quest
Meta ecosystem that you otherwise wouldn't have access to. Now in order to set this up you
will need to go and create a developer account, install some games, and the step-by-step process
for this is outside the length of this video. However. I and plenty of other people have done
step-by-step guides. So if you want to go and check that out then make sure you check the
link in the video I'll put in the description down below. It's definitely worth checking out
because there's some awesome games over there. If you want to take playing extra games
to a next level then you can play PC VR games wirelessly on your Quest headset. Now you
will need a 5GHz wi-fi router, preferably wi-fi 6, and a VR capable PC in order for this to
work. But if you've got that then you can use ‘Air Link’ on your Quest headset to play the
games on the PC, and view them and play them on your Quest headset. You have access to some
of the best VR games available. ‘Half-life: Alyx’ is awesome. I do have some videos taking
you through some quick setup guides of that, so again I'll put those in the
description down below for you. If you don't want to do any of that but still want
access to more games then I thoroughly recommend checking out WebVR games. Just go into the browser
on your Quest headset and type in ‘webvr’ and you will find some webvr amalgamation sites such as
‘webvr.directories’ which shows you all the webvr games that are available. These games run in your
browser and there are actually some pretty good games out there. I thoroughly recommend checking
out ‘Moonrider’ which is kind of a bit like Beat Saber and a little bit like ‘FitXR’.
There's a punch mode and there's like a saber mode as well. There’s some really cool
games out there and definitely worth checking out. It is actually amazing how well they run
considering they're running in your browser. And with all these games on your Quest headset
you can eventually run out of memory. Now you can go into the store and delete one game at
a time but that's a little bit cumbersome. You can delete lots of games all in one go. So, in
the settings on your headset, go into ‘Storage’. That lists out all the games that are installed.
Simply click on all the ones you want to delete. Click on ‘Done’, and then all of
those games are deleted in one go. You can change the virtual environment of the home
screen really easily. Simply go into ‘settings’ and ‘system and personalization’ and you will
have a list of home environments you can select. Simply choose which one you want which
will then get installed and then set by default. Then, the next time you go
back to your home screen it will change the home environment to the new environment
you selected. There are some really cool ones in there so I'd say install them all and have a
bit of a play and see which one you like best. And whilst you're on that home screen you can also
move the home menu. So if you find the home menu, or the home bar, too far down or too far up on
your screen, if you get your controller and you point it at the base of the home bar there is
a line across the middle of it in the bottom. Hold your trigger finger down on that and
then move your controller around the screen and it will move the entire home bar around
so you can put it in the best place for you. You can also create your own custom avatar
which will then appear in some games. So on that main home screen click on your
profile image, then click on ‘edit avatar’. You will then have a whole screen where you can
go and change your avatar to whatever you want. Your height. Your weight. The color
of your hair. Your clothes. Whatever. If you want to track your fitness in VR, you
can do that now with the Oculus Move app. Install that from the app store and then you can
set things like your maximum number of steps, maximum amount of activity,
or target amount of activity. It will track that and you can set an overlay
as well so it will appear over the home screen and over games to show how you're tracking.
Think of it like an apple watch in VR. There are a number of settings that are just
easier to use in the mobile app rather than the headset. First up, factory reset. Super easy
to do in the app. Go into the app. Click on the ‘Devices’. Click on your device. In the ‘advanced
settings’ there is a ‘factory reset’ option. Click on that and it will factory
reset your device. Something that we all hope we never have to do, but let's
face it, at sometime we all probably will. You can sync all the media files from your
headset to your phone, which is super useful if you want to share your media then on
social media or with friends or family, because let's face it it's just a little bit
easier from your phone. In order to do that though you will have to go into the ‘files’
app on your headset first. Once in there make sure you enable sharing. There's a cloud icon in
the top right-hand corner. Make sure that it is enabled and turned on. Once that's toggled on, if
you then go into the app it will eventually show you all of your synced media from your headset
to your phone. If you do want to disable it at any point you can do that by going into the files
app on the headset again. Click on the cloud icon in the top right-hand corner and there'll be a
line going through it which means it's disabled. You can also use the mobile phone to connect
your headset to your wi-fi because it's easier to put your wi-fi password in using your phone
than it is using the controller on your headset. So if you've forgotten your wi-fi password, your
headsets become disconnected from your wi-fi, for whatever reason, this is really useful.
In the app, click on the ‘Devices’ tab. Click on your device and then click on the ‘wi-fi’
option. Then just select the wi-fi of choice and it will ask you to enter your password. It will
then go and connect your headset to the wi-fi. Who doesn't want a little bit of privacy on the
web? Well, there are some privacy settings in the Quest that helps with that. So, inside the
settings there's a ‘privacy’ tab. Click on that and you can choose how much visibility people
have of what you're doing. So it will show you whether you or your friends or anybody can see
whether you're logged on, what you're playing, and who your friends are. Now it's not a
massive range of privacy settings but it is better than nothing. I'd like a little bit
of control over how much Facebook tracks you given that it's Mark Zuckerberg doing
his Facebook thing at the moment. But, we'll see where we go with that. For
now though, something is better than nothing. And on the subject of privacy, please don't leave
your headset on. Now there is the obvious thing of if you leave it on it's going to drain
power. You need to go and recharge it more often which means the battery won't last as long,
so that kind of preserves that side of things. The other side of it is, do you want a
device that has four cameras and a mic array sitting on standby in the middle of
your lounge? I would say “probably not”. So for that aspect, and the power saving aspect
as well, turn it off when you're not using it. Here's a tip… Make sure your Quest 2 doesn't
blow up! So a number of people have reported the charging port on their Quest 2 melting. Now
this is largely down to using third-party charges. So my recommendation is to use the official
charger that came with the Quest 2 out-of-the-box where you can. If you must use a third-party
charger, or a third-party charging cable, make sure that you use one from a known brand. If you're a power user and would like to
use multiple screens on your Quest headset at any one time, you now can! So there is
a multitasking mode. Inside the settings, the experimental tab, there's
a ‘enable multitasking mode’ that allows you to have up to three screens
side-by-side. So for browsing on youtube, or whatever, you can have them all side-by-side
and do them all at once, if that's your thing. Now, playing in VR is all well and good, but
if you're playing and your friend’s around and they can't see what you're doing, well it
all gets a bit boring for everybody else. Fortunately you can show what
you're playing on a TV screen so everybody can see how bad you are at playing
Beat Saber. In order to do that you can cast from your headset to any cast compatible device.
So that can be a TV, could be a laptop, a tablet, could be anything. To enable this from
the main menu, click on the ‘sharing’ icon and then select ‘cast’. It will then give you a
list of compatible devices that it can cast too. Select whichever one you want. It will then cast
your screen to that device. It's a great way of sharing game play with your friends and family
when they've come around for a bit of a laugh. So, the speakers in the Quest headset are okay.
They're not exactly screaming audiophile quality though. So in order to get the best sound, well,
get a pair of headphones! I know that sounds kind of obvious, but I don't mean go out and buy a pair
of headphones. Because you can get Logitech G333’s and the G Pro’s which Logitech make as well as
have a Quest 2 variant. However, you don't need to do that because the Quest 2 is compatible
with any pair of headphones with a 3.5mm jack, which is pretty much any pair of wired headphones.
So really, the best pair of headphones you can use are probably the pair you already have. And if
you've got a pair of headphones like the Logitech G Pro’s that have a detachable cable then you can
replace the really long cable with a super short one. I will put a link in the description down
below for some short cables that you can go and buy. It really does up the immersive gameplay
and is definitely worth having a look at. Various tips and tricks can only take you so far
because at the end of the day you are limited by the hardware of the Quest headset itself. So
I would say here's another tip…accessorize! Look at the wealth of third-party accessories
that are available in the market. So if we look at my headset here I've got a third-party head
strap. I've got another facial interface on here. The controllers I've got have
controller grips on them as well, and they really do make a difference to your
gameplay. I've reviewed a wealth of them so if you're going to have a look at my channel there's
definitely things that are worth having a look at. Which leads me to tip number 40. Subscribe to
my channel! If you have enjoyed the video and you'd like to see more videos like this then
yes, please subscribe to my channel. It really helps this channel and hopefully gives you
more videos that you enjoy and find helpful. So if after doing all these tips and tricks
you want to pimp your Quest even further then be sure to check out my video up here
for some great Quest 2 accessory ideas. Thanks for watching, and as always… See you in the next one!
