When fully charged, the Oculus Quest’s lithium-ion battery can deliver about two and half hours of gameplay. The best way to keep the VR good-times going is to make sure you bring your charging cable everywhere you go or carry an external battery with you. But what if you are in a situation where you don’t have either of those options with you?
Staying alive
You can add time to the life of your Quests internal battery just by changing some of the settings in your headset. It may only give you an additional half-hour, depending on the VR experience, but that half-hour is worth the extra time. The following tips will help extend your battery life and keep your lithium battery in great condition. Here’s how it’s done.
How to extend battery life on your Oculus Quest
Practice good battery habits with your Oculus Quest. Treat your Quests battery as you would a cellphone battery.
Turn off Auto Wake-Up. Having this setting on will keep your headset awake and on low power mode, even when not in use. Turning this off will save some power.
- To do this, go into Settings > Power > Auto Wake-Up and switch this mode to off.
- Once this setting is turned off, the button will turn from blue to grey.
You will also find the option for Auto-Sleep right below Auto Wake-Up. Next to it, you’ll see options to change the amount of time your headset will stay on before it goes to sleep after inactivity.
- Set your Oculus Quest to go to sleep after 15 seconds of inactivity by clicking on the drop-down menu using your controllers.
Turn off your headsets Wi-Fi once a game has finished downloading to your headset or if you don’t plan on using any apps that require Wi-Fi such as Netflix, YouTube, RecRoom, VRChat or Oculus Browser.
- Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and move the button from right to left, to the off position.
While you are turning off your wifi, you can also switch your headset to Do Not Disturb just below the wifi setting. Doing this will turn off those pesky notifications while you’re in VR, which can use up your battery.
Turn down your volume. I know, the louder, the better. Also, the louder, the more battery use.Lower volume means longer battery life.
- Click the button on the right-hand side of your Quest headset, or turn the volume down inside of the headset under Settings > Volume.
Turn off your headset when not in use. To do this, you’ll find a button on the right hand side of your headset. Hold the button down while wearing your headset, after three seconds you’ll see the option to turn off your headset.
All it takes is a few small tweaks in the Quests settings to stretch out the life of your battery. It may not give you a full day of battery life, but as battery technology improves, someday it could. In the meantime, you should take advantage of the settings inside of your Quest to lengthen the life of your battery so you can spend more time in VR. Or remember to keep your Quest charger or a power cell with you at all times. Good luck and happy Questing!
Top Equipment
The Oculus Quest is a standalone VR headset that finally cuts the cord and frees you from having to tethered to a computer to experience 6DOF VR. It does this by packing an OLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB’s of RAM, and sensors for inside-out tracking of your controllers – all into the headset.
Tetherless VR
Oculus Quest
$399 Amazon.com
VR without wires
Facebook’s Oculus Quest comes in a 64GB or 128GB version and has about a 2 and half hour battery life with a full charge.
The Quest also packs a lithium-ion battery that when fully charged, can deliver about two and half hours of continuous gameplay (depending on the VR experience).
Level up your Quest experience
The Oculus Quest is a wonderful VR headset on its own, but here are some cool extras to make your VR experience even better.
Extras!
CASEMATIX Carry Case
$45 on Amazon
The ultimate carrying case for your Quest
Customizable foam carrying case optimized for your Oculus Quest VR Headset and Quest Controllers. Easy to transport using its convenient carrying handle. Measuring 16.0″ x 13.0″ x 6.0″ in exterior dimensions, this travel case is perfect for securing and protecting your device.
AMVR Headset Stand
$33 at Amazon
Display your Quest at home
Specially designed for Displaying and Storing Oculus Rift S VR Headset and Oculus Quest All-In-One; VR Display Stand detachable design to be stored away and re-assemble easily!.
Disposable VR Masks
$25 on Amazon
Prevent eye infections.
No one wants an eye infection!! These masks protect the part where the skin directly contacts VR equipment from sweat, sebum, cosmetics, dirt. Each order comes with 100 masks.
