Quest Quickie: A Simple Guide to Streaming Media

You have a stack of videos sitting on your PC? You want to watch them on Quest with no muss or fuss — without using Virtual Deskop or copying them to your visor? We got you covered! Note: This guide presumes you’re using Windows 10 Professional. Updated 2021–01–24.

While some people love to stream YouTube all day, some of us have stacks of video files stored on our PC; movies, TV shows, home videos, music videos — yes even porn. We want to watch these files on our Quest as easy as possible.

Getting Started

There are three steps to making this work.

• Install Skybox VR ($15) on your Quest (or Pigasus VR — $5)
• Create a new local user on your Windows machine
• Share the folder with your porn, I mean, media with that user

Boom — you can now watch your videos (even 3D ones) with Skybox as long as you’re connected to your network.

Install Skybox VR

This is the easy part.

Hop on your Quest, open the store, find and purchase/install Skybox VR.

Create A New Local User in Windows

For those curious why we do this … Windows doesn’t want you using local user accounts anymore. They want you logging into your PC with a Microsoft “cloud” account. That makes it a little harder to set up local file shares for a specific user.