A woman holding up an Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset.
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If you've bought the Oculus Quest 2 and want to give your former Quest VR headset to someone else in your household, there'southward no demand to buy your games twice. You tin easily share games betwixt two Oculus Quests headsets.

Oculus App Sharing Makes it Possible

Thanks to a feature introduced to the Quest via an update, you can now have multiple accounts on a Quest and share games bought past one user with some other. However, at that place are some limitations to this to keep in mind.

First of all, only the chief business relationship on a given Oculus Quest headset can share games. Each sub-business relationship nevertheless has its ain online account and they can all purchase their ain games. They just tin't share them with anyone else on that headset.

Then the chief business relationship and sub-accounts can play games that the main business relationship owns, merely each sub-account volition have its own save games and progression. Assuming a game supports cloud sync, if a sub-account owner gets their own headset, their progress will be waiting for them. Just of grade, they'll take to purchase their own copy of a given game.

The last limitation is that game developers must opt-in to allow sharing beyond accounts. In practice, virtually Quest games back up family sharing, simply some notable titles (such every bit Beat Saber) do non. Y'all tin check whether a game supports family sharing on its store page. Some DLC may also not work with family sharing, merely this differs on an app-past-app footing.

How to Set up Up Family Sharing

Setting up family sharing on a headset is simple, equally long as you practice things in the right order. Think that both headsets need the same primary account. If you've set upwards your new headset with your primary business relationship, you don't need to change annihilation there, but if you've set up the secondary headset where you want to share games with someone else's account outset, you lot'll have to perform a manufactory reset. Once the factory reset is consummate, simply prepare that Quest equally if information technology were new and use the primary account whose games you desire to share.

If the 2d Quest already has the right account equally primary, y'all don't need to do anything special, we're simply going to add the sub-accounts to the existing headset.

Since you tin can't take system screenshots directly with the Quest, the images below were captured using the Quest's casting role. However, the quality of the stream isn't actually legible, so these images are just for reference.

Open up "Settings" from the Quick Menu then select "Accounts".

Toggle "App Sharing" on and so select "Add Business relationship". You can always toggle App Sharing on later if you forget or don't desire to practice it now. If you don't have a passcode or security pattern, you'll exist asked for ane to protect the main account from sub-account holders.

Quest Add Account

You tin can now gear up up the new sub-business relationship or hand over the headset to that account holder if you lot wish.

Quest Add Account

The new user must now log in to their Facebook business relationship and their Oculus business relationship (if any). If they don't have these accounts, they'll have to cull the new user pick. In one case the introductory video plays, the new user is ready to get.

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Playing Shared Games

Shared games that are already installed on the headset should show upward in the sub-accounts library. Sub-accounts can install games that have already been purchased in the Apps section of the Quest's interface. Sub-accounts should not go to the Oculus Store on the headset, since they will then be prompted to buy their own re-create of the game.

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