How to Download Quest 3 Videos to Your Computer (PC & Mac)
Learn how to download meta quest 3 videos to your PC or mac for editing. Grab thoseQuest 3 video files and make something epic!
To get recorded videos from your Quest 3 to your computer lets start with those on PC. all you have to do is take the usb c white cable that came with your quest for charging and plug it into your computer, put your headset on and then and connect the other end of the usb c cable to your headset. Inside your headset you should see this little dialogue box come up asking to allow the connected device to access the files on the headset. If it goes away just unplug and replug your headset and it will come up again. With your touch controller click on that box to allow the connection. Now on your PC you can go to file explorer then find Quest 3 on the left slide click it then internal shared storage then the oculus folder, videoshot, and there you will find all your recorded video capture and you can place them onto your desktop.
For mac its a little more tricky of course so first go to sidequestvr.com then click get sidequest up top. Scroll down to the advanced installer this is key make sure to choose advance then click your version and install. Open the .dmg then drag the sidequest icon over to the applications folder and then you can double click the icon to open up sidequest. From here you can then plug in the included usb c cable to your mac put your headset on and then connect the other end of the usb c cable to your headset. You should see this dialogue box come up asking to allow the connected device to access the files on the headset. Like the PC version If it goes away just unplug and replug your headset and it will come up again. With your touch controller click on that box to allow the connection. Now back onto your mac inside the sidquest app you’ll see the red dot in the top left turn to green and now you are connected. From here click the folder icon to open up the quest 3’s directory then choose the oculus folder, then videoshot, and there you will find all your recorded video captures and you can drag and drop them onto your desktop. Make sure to let the transfer finish before disconnecting.
I hope that helps and if you would like to sync your video and photos from your headset to your phone check out this video on how to do that. Thanks for watching and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.