Good news for Oculus Quest 2 users (opens in a new tab), a wise open-source tool called OculusKiller has been released that allows players to bypass the Oculus Dash and upload directly to Steam VR. For users who primarily play Steam games in VR, this is that little point of frustration at launch.
According to Upload VR (opens in a new tab), OculusKiller replaces the Oculus dashboard executable and much more in Steam VR as soon as you turn on the headset. This ingenious solution evolved through ItsKaitlyn03 and can be downloaded on GitHub (opens in a new tab). You can find more main points about this direct solution to Steam here.
What’s especially good about this small solution is that it’s not too difficult to implement. Simply download and place a record in the Oculus directory while renaming another. From there, everything deserves to run smoothly.
OculusKiller author, software engineer ItsKaitlyn03, explains that this not only makes it less difficult to load Steam VR at launch, turning your Quest into something a little more like a local SteamVR headset, but also improves performance.
By shutting down Oculus Dash completely, at least two hundred MB of memory and GPU functionality have been stored thanks to idle processes that no longer work. This potentially makes it a solution for other people to get a little more out of your Steam games. , even if you’re not too worried about the initial loading time and hassles.
Although it is also noted that this will definitely break the local Oculus games. ItsKaitlyn03 says that they can still be loaded, however, due to the closure of Oculus Dash, you may not be able to leave them. They introduced Revive (opens in a new tab) to play Oculus games if you also plan to use OculusKiller.
Of course, since this is unofficial software, you can’t wait for support. ItsKaitlyn03 has indicated that there may be insects and is asking others to send them.
There are already a few on the list, like OculusKiller that doesn’t run with scary Phasmophobia (which won our co-op award in 2020 (opens in a new tab)). Hopefully, it will be more subtle over time, but OculusKiller already turns out to be a wonderful solution to recover some of its functionality and time when betting on virtual reality.
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