Quest Parties: A Guide to Introducing VR To Family and Friends

The holidays are a perfect opportunity to bring something fun and exciting to parties with your family and friends. Having a fully un-tethered virtual reality experience sounds like a fantastic way of mixing it up for the holidays — but how do you curate and facilitate the perfect VR experience to the uninitiated? Updated: 2020–10–25 to include the Quest 2.

Let’s be honest … can you imagine another party WITHOUT VR there?

The Packing List

Let’s start off with what you need to bring with you. Sure, it may seem obvious — but having it in a neat list in front of you might help and who knows? Maybe there is something here you haven’t thought of.

• A fully charged Quest and controllers with brand new batteries (I’m a fan of Energizer; rechargables just don’t seem to last as long in my experience)
• The official charging brick/cable so you can top off your Quest during any down time (also during any sitting experiences; every little bit helps)
• Extra AA batteries — don’t count on your own experience with battery life to cloud your judgement; there will be a lot of variables that can change your battery life expectancy). I’d go with extra batteries for every four hours of play just to be safe.
• A mountable battery pack for emergencies. I use a very rudimentary portable battery…