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otidea
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2 years ago
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Quest 3: How to keep audio playing on PC speakers when headset is off? (ignore proximity sensor)

Hello, I'm developping for a special hardware and we're trying to switch from HP G2 PCVR to Quest 3 since the availability of the former is waning.   We've been working hard to make it work at ...
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    otidea
    2 years ago

    We managed to make it work. We disabled the oculus audio on the meta software, leaving only the desktop audio, so that it wouldn't stop when we take the HMD off. 
    Then, since we have a realtek Audio card integrated in the motherboard, we installed the driver and could use "Stereo Mix" in the recording devices list, then hit properties > Listen, Listen to this device, and redirected it to the oculus device. 

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otidea
Honored Guest
2 years ago

We managed to make it work. We disabled the oculus audio on the meta software, leaving only the desktop audio, so that it wouldn't stop when we take the HMD off. 
Then, since we have a realtek Audio card integrated in the motherboard, we installed the driver and could use "Stereo Mix" in the recording devices list, then hit properties > Listen, Listen to this device, and redirected it to the oculus device.