Tagged "quest"

I published Quest PCVR on Apple Silicon Mac via CrossOver and Virtual Desktop / CrossOver Findings, two notes that document the same dead end from slightly different angles. One explains why Quest PCVR from macOS through CrossOver fails at the runtime/compositor layer, and the other captures the bottle-level evidence from Virtual Desktop Streamer, SteamVR, and OpenXR probing. Together they are the version I wish I had before spending more time treating this like a tweakable game-config problem.

I published Minimal OpenXR-OSX MVP: hello_xr on Quest from macOS, then turned it into a real end-to-end proof instead of leaving it as a plan. The note now covers the successful native macOS -> OpenXR-OSX -> Quest run, includes a short clip of the headset result, and explains that the runtime's built-in streaming server brought the Quest out of its blue standby screen into the actual hello_xr cubes scene before a later retest negotiated a real 90Hz path too. The visible drops and patchiness are documented with the important caveat that my wireless network environment was not tuned for this test, so I do not want to over-attribute those artifacts to the runtime alone.

Findings on trying to use a Meta Quest headset for PCVR from an Apple silicon Mac through CrossOver, and why the missing runtime stack is the real blocker.

A smallest-possible test plan for getting a native macOS hello_xr sample talking to OpenXR-OSX and displaying through the Quest client.

Notes on whether a Windows OpenXR app running in CrossOver can be bridged into OpenXR-OSX on macOS, and why that turns into a custom proxy-runtime problem instead of a simple runtime switch.