I have the Meta Link cable. I have it connected to one of the USB-C ports on my ROG Maximus Z790 Hero motherboard. I haven’t seen it drop below 100% charge while gaming.
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I DON’T have Meta’s Link cable. Instead I have a cheaper one from Beat Buy. (The Link was sold out). My cable works fine. But it will not hold a charge past about four hours. It is rare for me to go that long. That said, I think the Meta cable is expensive for reason’s beyond simply Zuck’s greed.
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You mean you don’t fly the 787-900 and sit there for 16 hours having fun? 
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So interesting…well…probably obvious observation this morning. I loaded up X-Plane 11 to give a whirl in some of my dozens of modules (I do realize I’m a collector rather than a flyer of half of my crap)…and performance was weird. As I was looking left and right there would be a hiccup. I didn’t see really any degradation of the image quality but there was a definite stutter when glancing left and right. Puzzled me for a bit. Tried reloading a different aircraft thinking it was an aircraft specific problem. No. Tried rebooting X-Plane. No. Tried closing out of SteamVR and relaunching. No.
Finally…I spotted what it was…my headset was using 2.4 GHz instead of 5 GHz. I think what happened was last night I was playing without my PC in my living room…my router…which I have very little control over because it is a Spectrum (cable company) router…does this thing (I think) where it picks the bandwidth based on the signal…so it can jump from 5 to 2.4 GHz maybe when the headset is out of range of the 5 GHz signal. It is my assumption that the higher frequencies don’t penetrate the walls as well? And actually…I’m probably wording that wrong…I don’t know that the router changes frequencies…but maybe the headset latches on to that frequency that is the strongest (?). If so, it would be odd that it didn’t automatically recapture the 5 GHz signal when I was seated at my PC as the router is literally within an arm’s reach.
Anyway…I rebooted my router…I saw my headset switch back to 5 GHz…and all was smooth and fluid with X-Plane again. I guess that could be a vote towards going the wired route when sitting here…but that was the first time it happened that I noticed.
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The problem with going wired is that you can no longer use Virtual Desktop with it’s streamlined OpenXR runtime.
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I saw some stupid post yesterday that had 13 steps to make that actually happen. I looked at it and was like. Nah. It was like the Falcon dance…
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It needs to be easy… or I’m probably not going to bother. 
If it continues to be a pain, I can recommend that VR ‘bridge’ which seems to give me a very reliable connection to the PC. It made quite a difference when I switched the headset over from my Starlink router (Wi-Fi 6).
At the end of that I think you have to sacrifice a chicken and burn some sage in your living room…
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But does it work?!?
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Virtual Desktop requires a dedicated router that is connected to PC via wire then connect Q3 to the router. It took me quite some trial to get it work. I haven’t got much time to use my Q3. But it worked quite well for me when it’s set up like that. I think someone here bought a dedicated bridge that is made for Q3. And it works very well.
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Do you have to use SteamVR with Virtual Desktop?
No, virtual desktop uses OpenXR but you do have the option to use SteamVR if you want to.
VDXR is what I use.
That’s good to hear. Thanks Paul. My PC is connected via Ethernet to an Orbi Satellite, which the Q3 connects to via WiFi. I’m going to try this first, then the Prism VR bridge if that fails. The Orbi isnt a router, but I think that devices on the network can connect to each other without leaving.
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Hey Guys,
I should be getting my Q3 on Nov. 5th, I had been using the Reverb G2, any advice for a Q3 noobie to know. I had bough the cable and plan on using that…
Just wondering how I will play games through Steam like no mans sky and Mechwarrir 5 VR…
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I only have a Quest 2, but you load Meta Link on the PC and connect the headset over wifi and it just works for OpenXR.
I believe it also “just works” for SteamVR games over Steam Link, but I haven’t personally tried that and can’t speak to how you get it going.
The trick with the Steam games is to run them directly from your Meta Quest library. That way it will bypass Steam VR.
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I successfully got a Virtual Desktop connection and played some sims over WiFi last night. But the latency was 70-90 ms unless I turned down the image quality quite a bit. And even with it at a steady 45 ms, AMS2 was not very tolerant. ACC worked really well surprisingly, but DCS and AMS2 had some warping that basically ruined gameplay. It may be something with how Orbi mesh functions regardless of high bandwidth.
As soon as I connected with the cable, all was smooth again. I guess that if I want to operate wirelessly, that the bridge would be the next obvious step. Battery consumption went way up with higher performance settings, so battery packs and head straps are part of the equation. I’ve got to decide if it’s worth it for someone who is basically a sit down sim enthusiast.
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So I ended up getting a €20 5 meter cable that claimed to have been purposefully designed for the Quest and it is now silky smooth with 36FPS with ASW in DCS world. It can get more FPS with ASW off but then it can get choppy at times. It does slowly drain. Flying for about an hour drained it to 83% so I’m sure it can last for quite a while.
Considering I’m still rocking an aging 1080ti and 7700K, I am honestly very happy with the perfomance.
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