Saturday, October 1st 2022
D-Link's DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge Enhances VR Experience for Meta Quest 2
D-Link Corporation unveiled today its much-anticipated DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge, a wireless dongle designed specifically for Meta Quest 2 in an exclusive partnership with Meta. The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge provides high-performance wireless links between Meta Quest 2 and PCs/laptops, eliminating cable clutter to provide enhanced and safer VR gaming experiences.
"While connecting Meta Quest 2 through a PC/laptop will significantly boost performance and graphic quality, most gamers are connected via the home Wi-Fi router or a dedicated gaming router. Many home Wi-Fi router connections can be unstable and are likely affected by other connected home Wi-Fi devices. Gaming routers can be significantly higher in cost, more time consuming to set up, and definitely not tuned for optimized Meta Quest 2 connectivity," explained CJ Chang, CEO of D-Link Corporation.
The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge is embedded with D-Link's advanced Wi-Fi 6 firmware and Meta's proprietary VR algorithms to bring low-latency wireless connectivity and improved Wi-Fi efficiency. Furthermore, the DWA-F18 features a compact design with simple installation and WPA3 Wi-Fi protection to let gamers experience safer, unrestricted, and fully-immersive VR adventures in the Metaverse.
"After joining the Metaverse Standards Forum in July, we aim to be a pioneer in Metaverse development. This exclusive partnership with Meta not only validates our innovation, but also affirms that D-Link is the ideal partner to combine technology, security, and quality. In anticipation of growing Metaverse trends, D-Link will continue to develop user-friendly and cost-effective Metaverse products and services to optimize consumer VR experiences," said CJ Chang.
The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge will be available in North America soon.
Source:
D-Link
"While connecting Meta Quest 2 through a PC/laptop will significantly boost performance and graphic quality, most gamers are connected via the home Wi-Fi router or a dedicated gaming router. Many home Wi-Fi router connections can be unstable and are likely affected by other connected home Wi-Fi devices. Gaming routers can be significantly higher in cost, more time consuming to set up, and definitely not tuned for optimized Meta Quest 2 connectivity," explained CJ Chang, CEO of D-Link Corporation.
"After joining the Metaverse Standards Forum in July, we aim to be a pioneer in Metaverse development. This exclusive partnership with Meta not only validates our innovation, but also affirms that D-Link is the ideal partner to combine technology, security, and quality. In anticipation of growing Metaverse trends, D-Link will continue to develop user-friendly and cost-effective Metaverse products and services to optimize consumer VR experiences," said CJ Chang.
The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge will be available in North America soon.
18 Comments on D-Link's DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge Enhances VR Experience for Meta Quest 2
My quest 2 works fine over wifi AC, but more bandwidth isn't neccesarily a bad thingYou're still alive? Weird. Looking at your post count, who knew?
I tickled that nerve, huh?!
VR is bigger than ever, just because it's not in your life doesn't mean it's not in others.
I only just got a quest 2, and i'm able to stream everything wirelessly with <30ms total latency on default settings
Maybe 3ms of that is network, so i'm not sure going to wifi AX or wired is worth it.
It'd be far too high for PC gaming, but VR gaming doesn't work the same at all
I can get it around 20ms, but prefer max quality at 120FPS. even games like beatsaber don't really throw you off in the 25ms response range, everythings slower in VR games anyway to reduce motion sickness
My post, at first, was not directed at NO ONE HERE, but apparently, that's not what we have here, though, from staff... at that. Wt...!! :laugh:
But anyway, you said your courageous controversial opinion, followed by "it was just a joke bro" and next up is the "free speech" and "dictator moderators" amirite?
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:roll:
VR is doing sooooo poorly, not like the graphs going up year on year, with dips in the exact same places as seasons change
Now staying on topic instead of bullshit statements, this bridge came out at USD $99 today
Removing the step of PC->Router would definitely help if the PC was also on wifi, or if you transport the quest and a gaming laptop around and can't rely on your own wifi network being available.
A clean wifi AC 5GHz network can easily max out the 200Mb bandwidth limit of Air bridge, if the hosting PC is wired by ethernet
I'd guess something is different at the software level, the quest software was updated to add support for the F18 dongle specifically