VR and AR headsets · Meta
Meta Quest
Meta's own Developer Mode switch, free to turn on in the companion app, unlocks installing your own apps over USB. It does not unlock the headset's own system, only room for what you add to it.
What it can become
What owners already do with it, easiest first.
Turn on Developer Mode
A free developer account and one toggle in the Meta Quest phone app enable USB debugging and app installs outside the store, officially, on your own headset.
Install your own and open-source apps outside the store
SideQuest manages APKs over the same USB cable: your own experimental builds, or an open-source app the Meta store never carried.
Mod a game you already own
QuestPatcher patches the Android package of a game already installed on your headset to load mods, custom songs for Beat Saber among the most common. It modifies your own copy of a game you bought, not someone else's.
Stream your gaming PC's VR games wirelessly
ALVR and WiVRn turn the headset into a wireless display for SteamVR games running on your own computer, with no Meta Link cable and no subscription.
Everything built for it
3 projects from the index, most active first.