How to Stream & Record Oculus Quest 2 Wirelessly with OBS

You have a quest 2, a computer, the almighty obs and you want to record or stream yourself and your quest 2 gameplay wirelessly without a capture card. Well fellow quester It’s time to make your dreams come true!

For this setup you won’t need an expensive capture card, oculus link, virtual desktop or even a mic. All you need is your quest 2 a decent internet connection and of course OBS on your computer. Oh and make sure your computer and quest are on the same wifi. Now let’s head over to obs

Starting fresh with a new OBS scene we shall prepare your settings. First lets make your profile. Go up top to profile then new and name it whatever I’ll go with Quest Tube Baby. Go down to settings in the main screen on the lower right and from here we can keep it simple. Hit output on the left. In this video I’m going to focus on recording but for those of you who want to stream, if you have a good enough upload speed you can bump the bitrate up to 5 - 7000 for 1080p and if you are on the slower end go with 2500 - 5k and later we will make the output 720p

Now for the recording settings, I have a good bit of hard drive space but I like to go in the mid range here with the indistinguishable setting. If you have the space go for the gold if you’d like. Next I like to make it easy for myself and choose mp4 for my recording format. It’s just an easier file type to work with when editing later. For encoder settings if you have a dedicated graphics card you’ll have more options here but I’m in the mac world so I just go with software encoding.

Next up click on the video tab on the left and set up your canvas to what your computer can do I’m going to go 1080 here for the canvas and output. I leave the fps at 30 bc honestly I’m not sure what frame rate the quest 2 can consistently cast at. Then click okay.

Time for the meat and potatoes. The secret sauce is coming up. Head back up to the top and create a new scene collection and name it your favorite VR headset or whatever you want and click okay. You’ll see down below your first scene set up on the left and to the right of it is your sources. Under sources click the plus sign then hit video capture device, give it a name and then choose either your webcam or like me I have a capture card for my camera source and click okay. You can move that window down to the side or resize it and then go back to the plus icon and now choose browser source. Give it a name and change the dimensions to whatever your canvas resolution is, mine for example is 1920 width and 1080 height. And Here is that beautiful secret sauce that saves your computer power while streaming or recording and lets you stream wirelessly. In the URL box type in oculus.com/casting and tick the box for control audio via obs then click okay.

You’ll now see the web window asking you to login. Right click on it and then choose interact. Inside the pop up box, login to your oculus account. Fun fact I wasn’t able to use backspace, nor copy paste so when you enter your info make sure you do it correctly or highlight it and re-enter if you mess up. Once you log in and make it to the page saying start casting to this private link along withyour profile icon up in the right you are good to click the red x.

Now you’ll see two sources in your scene and you can click and drag the video capture source to the top inside the sources panel to put it over your future quest 2 gameplay output. 

We are almost there and I just want to say give yourself a pat on the back and I hope you enjoyed that secret sauce for your nugs. if you are new to obs this is a lot of shiz but its gonna be worth thy effort.

Saunter on over to your quest 2 and slip it on. Inside your headset you can now click on the arrow share icon on the main menu and then choose cast and then cast to computer. Again make sure your computer and headset are on the same wifi give it a few seconds and holy quest daddy your casting wireless right into obs. A little tip here, I like to activate the video capture indicator so I know if somehow my cast drops. You can do this by going to your quick settings in the headset and then to settings and then device and choose video capture indicator to on. Rest assured the red dot thankfully does not show up in your casted footage.

Back to OBS You’ll see under the audio mixer the audio coming from your casted gameplay, and if you aren’t seeing any readings there, again right click on the browser source and choose interact and then unmute the mic icon and the sound icon and you are good to go. And yep your mic audio from the quest will come through as well.

For a little design house keeping you can crop your sources by clicking on them in the preview window and holding option on mac or alt on PC and dragging the red lines to where you like. You can resize in the same fashion just without holding any key. When you’re feeling good with your setup go ahead and hit start record or if you want to live your Nick Mercs dreams head back into the settings menu then the stream tab and connect the service you want to stream to and click okay and then hit start streaming.