If you have tried recording applications implementing the Oculus passthrough feature you’ll know that it’s not possible. Even casting the application will not show you the passthrough environment. Thankfully it’s possible by using SideQuest. In this blog, we’ll show how to use SideQuest to stream and record a passthrough environment.
You need to have an Oculus developer’s account and you should have enabled developer mode on your Quest 2 device.
Downloading, installing and setting up SideQuest on a machine is simple:
Note: If you are on Windows 11 then you can skip the following steps
With that, we have completed the setup. Next, we’ll see how we can stream it to our machine.
To stream from your Quest device :
With that, we have learnt to successfully record passthrough videos.
Mata’s privacy policy does not allow any application to record or cast directly. SideQuest uses screen copy which allows us to see the content displayed inside the headset. SideQuest has many other uses as well. You can use it to sideload APKs, try out games before they go live on the Oculus store, enter a contest and many more.
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