The Oculus Quest Kit is an advanced virtual reality kit that offers a wide array of fully immersive and interactive environments, games, and learning experiences for adults and young adults. The Oculus Quest Kit includes six (6) Oculus Quest VR headsets with hand controllers and is ideal for interactive learning activities, exploration of virtual environments, social experiences, and creative expression.
To learn more about the Oculus Quest, view the following demo presentation:
This How to Guide will show you how to:
Or you can view the Oculus Quest User Manual.
Setting up the Oculus Quest play area
To use a Roomscale play area, you'll need a safe and unobstructed space of at least 6.5 feet by 6.5 feet (2 meters by 2 meters). If you have a smaller space than that, you can still use Quest in Stationary Mode.
Adjusting the Oculus Quest headset
Adjusting your view
Connecting the Oculus Quest to Wi-Fi
Using the Oculus Quest glasses spacer
Before you wear your Oculus Quest 2 or Quest with glasses, check to make sure the width and height of your frames are the following sizes:
Once you've made sure your glasses are the right size, insert the eyeglass spacer into your headset to provide a larger fit. To insert the eyeglass spacer:
Powering down the Oculus Quest
When you aren't wearing your headset:
When you're wearing your headset:
The following tutorial videos will show you how to:
Click on any of the video icons below to begin the selected tutorial.
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View the full list of Oculus experiences at Quest Experiences. If the experience you want isn't already installed on the kit devices please contact library staff at Library.MakerLab@nau.edu to request the experience be added to our selection.
Adam Savage’s Tested VR - Adam Savage’s Tested VR takes students on a journey inside the creative workspaces of incredible makers, bringing their processes to life, from ideation to creation. Featuring an eclectic roster of creators, Adam and the Tested team put viewers inside their workshops for an intimate look at their builds.
Tags: Engineering, Design, STEM
Altspace VR - AltspaceVR is the premier place to attend live shows, meetups, cool classes, and more with friendly people from around the world. Students can attend hundreds of spotlight events every month like: Open Mic Night, Improv Comedy, Meditation, LGBTQ+ Meetups, VR Church and more or create their own meetup. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social
Beat Saber - Beat Saber is a unique VR rhythm game where the goal is to slash the beats (represented by small cubes) as they are coming at you. Every beat indicates which saber you need to use and also the direction you need to match.
Tags: Games, Fitness, Music
Ecosphere - Ecosphere allows student to explore the great savannahs of Kenya, discover the ancient jungles of Borneo and dive into the rich coral reefs of Raja Ampat. Encounter elephants, orangutans, manta rays and some incredible humans, all in stunning cinematic footage filmed from the air and deep into the ocean.
Tags: Geography, Culture, Travel
Engage - Engage is a next generation communications platform. It empowers educators, companies and event planners to host meetings, presentations, classes and events with people across the world. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Collaboration
Gadgeteer - Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.
Tags: Engineering, Design, STEM
Gravity Sketch - Gravity Sketch is a powerful 3D creation tool. Students can create loose free form sketches, detailed models, expansive scenes, and artwork unrestricted.
Tags: Engineering, Design, STEM
Half + Half - Half + Half is a multiplayer game about fun & connection. The game includes five unique multiplayer spaces that are designed to help students connect with people they know, and also to connect with people they don’t. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social
Mission ISS - Mission ISS allows students to take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station! In this Emmy-nominated simulation, students learn how to move and work in zero-gravity, dock a space capsule, and take a spacewalk, all guided by real NASA astronauts through informative videos and images.
Tags: Astronomy, Engineering, STEM
Multiverse - Multiverse is a social VR experience like no other. Students can learn about astronomy while navigating through awe-inspiring environments that showcase the solar system, its planets, their moons and other solar bodies. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Astronomy, STEM
National Geographic VR - NatGeo VR allows students to set off as National Geographic explorers to discover two of the most iconic locations on the planet! Head to Antarctica and set off on a thrilling expedition of discovery. Navigate around icebergs in a kayak, climb a massive ice shelf and survive a raging snowstorm as you search for a lost emperor penguin colony.
Tags: Geography, Culture, Travel
Notes on Blindness - Notes On Blindness provides your students an VR emotional journey into a world beyond sight.
Tags: Experiences
Oculus First Contact - First Contact is an official Oculus experience built for Oculus Quest. Experience the magic of ‘presence’ in VR, exploring moments that feel as real as they are fantastically impossible.
Tags: Experiences, Tutorial
Oculus Venues - Oculus Venues puts your students in the front row for concerts, sporting events, comedy shows and more. You can choose from an ongoing calendar of live, immersive events in VR where there's always something new to see. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Music
Quill - With Quill, students step into wonderful, immersive VR stories, hand painted and animated in VR. These VR stories not only let students view a painting on a wall, but also transport them into the painting itself. Students can experience expressive characters, fantastic creatures, and complete narratives in these VR animations. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Art, Storytelling
Rec Room - Rec Room is THE place for students to build and play games together. Party up with Rec Roomers from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore millions of player-created rooms, or build something amazing to share. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Games
Spatial - Spatial brings people together for hangouts, immersive presentations, team planning, product reviews, & brainstorms.. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Collaboration
Star Chart - Star Chart allows students to explore our Solar System, view constellations and meteor showers in the night sky, stand in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, explore Mars with the Curiosity Rover, and hold planets, moons, asteroids and even stars in palm of their hand.
Tags: Astronomy, Experiences, STEM
Tilt Brush - Tilt Brush lets students paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your students' creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. The possibilities are endless.
Tags: Art, Design, Storytelling
Travelling While Black - Traveling While Black is a cinematic VR experience that immerses students in the long history of restriction of movement for black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities.
Tags: Experiences, Culture
VRChat - VRChat lets your students fully embody custom avatars, play social games, and connect with friends in new ways. VRChat hosts a massive global community of gamers, musicians, creators, artists, entertainers and more. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Social, Games
Wander - Wander the world openly through the magic of VR. From the comfort of your classroom your students can teleport almost anywhere in the world - to walk across the London Bridge, stroll the gardens of the Taj Mahal, or witness the enormity of the Great Pyramids of Egypt - unlimited exploration awaits! Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Geography, Culture, Travel
Within - Within offers beautiful immersive stories — award-winning VR documentaries, animation, music videos, horror, and more. Includes photo-real people & places: everything is captured with cameras or rendered CGI. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Storytelling, Documentaries
YouTube VR - The YouTube VR app turns every video on the platform into your own virtual reality experience and reimagines YouTube as a 3D world you can explore from the inside. Requires Wi-Fi.
Tags: Experiences, Storytelling, Documentaries