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Tried it on another mac, same issue. Tried it in Windows in bootcamp, works fine.
(couldn't get connected in Parallels at all)
I haven't seen it documented elsewhere but it looks like the button only appears if you're running SideQuest in Windows. You can get the casting working on Mac via the same internal utility, and working well, but you have to launch the casting yourself.
I followed instructions here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/eeov74/wirelessly_stream_from_your_oculus_to_macos_guide/
Once you know what you're looking for, you'll find variants of these instructions with increasing levels of complexity if you look around.
(Where it says "brew cask install android-platform-tools", remove the word "cask".)
At a meta level (not a pun) the setup steps are:
- Run the special command to install HomeBrew - it's software that manages versions and dependencies of other software and utilities so that they have everything they need to run. HomeBrew is safe, it's very popular with programmers.
- Use HomeBrew to install scrcpy, which is the utility that does the screen copying and casting (takes 10-15 minutes)
- Use HomeBrew to make sure you have some Android utilities too
Then to run it:
- Follow the normal instructions for getting the Wireless connection through SideQuest
- Run scrcpy from terminal.
Ta Daa! Casting should run. You even see passthrough and guardian overlays with this method. To get a fullscreen window, of just one eye, that won't try to run faster than your display and matches the crop settings in the SideQuest version for a Quest 2, I have:
scrcpy --bit-rate 4M --crop 1600:900:2017:510 --disable-screensaver --fullscreen --no-control --max-fps 30
You quit it with Ctrl+Q. You can make a shortcut for starting casting by putting that command in a text file with a .command extension and making it executable ("chmod +x filename").
3 years ago