Oculus Quest with/without Link cable

[jinjamu]

Hi,

I have been trying to get my Oculus Quest work with Sketchfab for quite some time. There is a well documented forum thread regarding the slow performance using the Quest’s native browser, which as far as i can tell has not been satisfactorily resolved. I cannot understand why an ordinary mobile phone with cardboard can provide a good performance in VR mode, but the more powerful Quest cannot. Anybody from Sketchfab care to provide an update?

I recently got a link cable for the Quest. This seems to enable the Quest to emulate a Rift, and I have successfully managed to get apps like Google Earth to work very well indeed. However, trying to get a Sketchfab model to run on firefox in VR mode for the Quest/Link system has proved elusive. The model loads fine in VR mode on the laptop, and when I move the headset that same movement is reflected on the screen, so far so good, however all I get inside the headset is the Firefox logo and the word “Loading…”. I suspect I am missing something quite basic here, any hints would be highly welcome.
Thanks!

[jinjamu]

OK the second bit (running Sketchfab/Firefox on Oculus Quest/Link) is fixed…all I needed to do was open the NVidia Control Panel (right click on desktop), and change the default process fro Firefox to the graphics processor…as I thought, something quite basic!

Would really appreciate an update from Sketchfab about running natively in the Quest though.

Thanks!

[marathonMatt]

The truth is, they don’t seem to care. I work for a fairly large company and this is the one issue that is preventing us from moving forward with this platform. We are looking at getting an independent developer to build a platform for us using the quest. The money has to go somewhere.
The fact that they have not offered a reasonable solution or hinting even at working on one is just discouraging.

[paul_sketch]

As said by @jinjamu at the start of this thread, there is a whole forum thread explaining the whole situation in this very forum.
Here is the conclusion

Oculus Quest - low quality

We can go a long time, but in the end it will be about explaining the why of each performance guidelines posted above, but with long technical explanation. Note that every content/performance optimisation guidelines are the same as ours, for technical reasons too long to explain, but Feel free to dive in, and read all oculus/arm/mali/apple technical optimisation guide As said above, we try our best to make it as fast as we can, but sometimes there’s hard limit, here hardware and…

There is no update on this situation since then.

[jinjamu]

Fair enough I guess, if it was possible then I am sure sketchfab would do it, no reason not to given the growing popularity of the Quest. Massive pity though.
Thanks