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freddyisreadytoresearch
New Participant
October 27, 2025
Question

Network Interface Meta Quest 3

Hello all together,

i am currently working on a project:
I would like to develop an app in Unreal Engine 5 and deploy this as android app.

For this project i would like to communicate via a websocket to the metaquest from an external device. For the usecase both wired or wireless is ok, but wireless would be possible.

Is this possible in general and how?
Do I have to deploy Node.js on the Meta Quest additionally?

Thanks for help!

Best regards,
Freddy

5 replies

NemesisTWarlock
Inspiring
October 27, 2025

I have very limited knowledge of Websocket networking, but the game would be the client, and connect to a server running node.js. For personal applications this should be fine, but if you want this app on the Horizon Store, you will need to make sure that this connection is properly secured.

I have found a rudimentary tutorial on setting this up that works on unity and UE5 here:
https://dev.to/imaijiro/how-to-implement-socket-communication-in-unreal-engine-and-nodejs-4m0j

Good luck.

 

freddyisreadytoresearchAuthor
New Participant
October 28, 2025

Hi NemesisTWarlock​ 

thanks for your answer
Yes i also found that tutorial. The main problem i am facing is the networking between the Meta Quest and the node.js server.

In your proposal the node.js server and Meta Quest application are on different devices
Do as far as I have progressed now, the Meta Quest has a firewall which limits the data transfer and i dont know how to overcome this 

innit
Inspiring
October 29, 2025

Meta Quest doesn't have a Firewall; check you're local network settings as this could be blocking something. 

Using:  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> should be all you need.

You could add <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" /> and <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" /> to make life easier for development.

NemesisTWarlock
Inspiring
October 28, 2025

does your built APK's Manifest file have Internet access permissions? you will need to add that to the APK for your app to be able to make non-meta networking requests.

freddyisreadytoresearchAuthor
New Participant
October 28, 2025

oh, i hope thats the solution

do you happen to now where i should add that?

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