Developer needs to remove SteamVR streaming feature from Quest app from Oculus

The developer of the Virtual Desktop app for the Oculus Quest has been told by the maker of the VR goggles to remove the feature to transfer SteamVR games to the goggles from their own desktop. According to the developer, Oculus says that feature harms the Quest glasses.

By default, the Quest can only run games and apps from its own Oculus Store, but thanks to Virtual Desktop it had become possible to stream SteamVR games. That function must now be removed from the app, says the developer on Reddit. The feature to run games from Valve’s download store would hurt the Quest.

The move seems to indicate that Oculus doesn’t want apps to allow streaming of other games in order to sell games in its own Store, but Road to VR points out that it is possible that the developer broke other rules when creating the function, such as using disallowed APIs.

Virtual Desktop allows standard users to stream their own desktop to the Quest in order to do things on their own PC in VR, such as watching videos that are stored locally. An update enabled game streaming a few days ago. The Quest is a recently released standalone VR headset from Oculus.