{"id":670681,"date":"2026-09-03T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/670681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:11:16","slug":"steam-links-latest-public-beta-adds-wired-usb-support-on-quest-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/670681\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Link’s Latest Public Beta Adds Wired USB Support On Quest Headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Virtual Desktop’s implementation of the feature<\/a>, the latest Public Beta release for Valve’s Steam Link<\/a> on Quest adds support for wired USB PC streaming. <\/p>\n

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Meta Horizon OS 2.5 and later includes Android USB networking (NCM) support<\/a>, meaning that apps can request a direct network link to a connected host computer over USB after the user approves the system-wide permission required to enable the feature.<\/p>\n

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In the case of Steam Link, this works by simply plugging a data-capable USB-C cable into the headset after launching the app. An active USB connection is currently indicated by a cycling Wi-Fi signal on the SteamVR dock.<\/p>\n

You can join the Steam Link for Meta Quest Public Beta channel using Valve’s official invite link<\/a> while signed in to your Meta account, and you can join the SteamVR Beta on PC<\/strong> by following these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You should also opt into the Steam Client Beta on PC<\/strong> by following these instructions<\/a>, as this is a prerequisite for wired USB streaming without Wi-Fi. However, in my testing, Steam Link would still fail to find the host PC without an active Wi-Fi connection. It instead seemed to require the PC to be discovered over Wi-Fi before switching to USB streaming, so the feature may not yet be fully implemented in the current release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Virtual Desktop’s implementation of the feature, the latest Public Beta release for Valve’s Steam Link on Quest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[260],"tags":[18,19,17,82,286,287,288],"class_list":["post-670681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117208226204549648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}