This can be not so trivial to understand at first, because the Oculus Quest 2 use Android. Go to the Windows Icon and make sure that Initialize XR plugin on Startup is marked as true and in plugins provider make sure you have Oculus selected. In your project, go to Project settings > XR Plug-in management. Go to the Android Icon and make sure that Initialize XR plugin on Startup is marked as true and in plugins provider make sure you have Oculus selected. The rest of the folders are optional if you are not going to use the features like the Oculus Avatar or the Lipsync libary. You just need to add the VR folder and the platform folder. Once you get this asset, install it in your project.

Once the XR plugin management is installed, you will need to get from the Asset Store the 'Oculus integration' asset. Now, go to the package manager and in the packages from the Unity Registry, install the XR plugin management. Now go to Unity and create a new empty 3D project.įirst, switch in the build settings to Android and make sure you have selected as texture compression ASTC and as run device you have selected your Oculus Quest 2. Then, it will ask you if you want to start Oculus link, click 'Yes'. On your Oculus, you will see a message asking you if you allow the connected device to access your files, click 'Allow'. Connect your Oculus Quest 2 to your PC using your Oculus link cable (it is best if you use an USB port 3.0 or 3.1). Make sure the Oculus desktop app is running. If you already have it, make sure you have the last update. Make sure you have the latest updates installed in your Oculus Quest 2.ĭonwload the Oculus software in your PC. You don't need to buy the oficial Oculus link cable, any other third party Link cable for Oculus works. If you don't have one you can buy it through the oficial Oculus web page or Amazon. These are the steps you need to follow in order, for beeing able to use Unity editor 'play' button with you Oculus Quest 2 in real time (and it will also allow you to build projects if you want to do it as well): My intention of this post is to show you how to set it up to work, since this was a problem I had in the past.

For those of you who are starting to develop with the Oculus Quest 2 in Unity, you will see online there are some tutorials which don't explain in detail how to use the editor in real time in your Oculus Quest 2.

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