Meta might seriously be interested in adding a VR cloud gaming feature to the Quest 2 because a quest user had it accidentally enabled on their headset.

Just over a month ago I made a video where it was found in old firmware code, version 24 back in february of 2020 to be exact that meta might be working on a cloud gaming service code named avalanche. This month there seems to be more light to that theory.

Reddit user technical throw away, nice user by the way, shared a screen grab and video that shows inside the experimental features tab in the settings menu an enable avalanche alpha function. Which matches the code that was found by firmware sleuth samula.. TTA posted that they pressed it and it said finding server for 20 seconds then loaded oculus home. For about 15 seconds it was a really decent framerate, but with a little bit of lag then a spinning ring came up and it stayed like that. 

Tech Trow Away updated their post saying “I've had access to this for a few days now and been trying to find out how to get it working.” When it worked, it was super smooth, but there was definitely noticeable lag between moving the controller and seeing it move. It only worked for 10 seconds, it was basically the same experience as airlink. I didn't get a chance to see what games were available on first launch though, sad face.

With this coming to life it shows that this has been on the oculus / meta’s radar back in 2020 Consulting CTO and Doom creator John Carmack had things to say about wireless and cloud gaming back for the Quest 2 launch.

Of course there are now services like plutosphere, and shadow pc out there that can kind of make this happen through a cloud networked PC connection but they are expensive and personally I’ve had trouble making them work. Speaking of expensive I wonder if this means an oculus pass plus is coming in the future and just how much would that be..

As we’ve learned meta likes to roll out new features quite randomly and scarcely. So this may have been a part of that or a total oopsie. Either way I’m excited for the possibility of official cloud gaming if they can get it right. What do you think? Let’s discuss below and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.

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