Quest Techie: Wireless File Access From Your Phone, Computer

Quest Techie is a series of articles to cater to the Oculus Quest “power user” that wants to get more from their device and has a bit of technical savvy to do it. Updated on 2021–05–11.

“Power to the people, Marty.”

Recently on the Oculus Quest Reddit sub r/OculusQuest a question was posed on how to get to your Oculus Quest files from your phone.

As with so many questions posed in that forum, a use case wasn’t given; no reason offered as to why they wanted access or what they were looking to achieve — but that’s okay, I had an answer for them anyway.

It Starts With SideQuest

Pretty much anything techie you want to do with the Quest will either require or greatly benefit from using SideQuest.

You should already be running SideQuest … But if you’re not? Now is as good a time as any!

In combination with enabling yourself as a developer, SideQuest is a two part solution. There is a PC side “client” that interacts with your Quest once you install the “server” portion on the Quest itself.

First set up can be a bit lengthy, but subsequently it is easy to maintain and keep.