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Quest Techie: Failed Chromecast Streaming and Unique Solutions
The Oculus Quest is a great virtual reality headset. Its portable nature makes it a shoo-in for parties, family get-togethers or even team building exercises at work. But VR doesn’t work in a party environment unless people can see what the player is seeing. The Quest comes with streaming built-in; but the implementation may be causing you grief (if not now, then at your next party). I’m here to help!
The Oculus Quest headset is built upon Google’s Android platform — much like Amazon’s Fire series is. Like Amazon, Oculus takes great care to hide this fact from you, but from time to time, you’ll see a little peek of Android come out.
Chromecast is for Movies — Not Gaming
One such feature is the support of Chromecast — Google’s own video streaming technology.
On one hand, this makes complete sense. It was probably “free or cheap” for Oculus to implement and the popularity of these little dongles almost guarantees almost everyone has one.
The other hand tells a different tale. Chromecast was intended to stream non-real time, non-interactive video…
