D-Link's DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge Enhances VR Experience for Meta Quest 2

[TheLostSwede]

D-Link Corporation unveiled today its much-anticipated DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge, a wireless dongle designed specifically for Meta Quest 2 in an exclusive partnership with Meta. The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge provides high-performance wireless links between Meta Quest 2 and PCs/laptops, eliminating cable clutter to provide enhanced and safer VR gaming experiences.

"While connecting Meta Quest 2 through a PC/laptop will significantly boost performance and graphic quality, most gamers are connected via the home Wi-Fi router or a dedicated gaming router. Many home Wi-Fi router connections can be unstable and are likely affected by other connected home Wi-Fi devices. Gaming routers can be significantly higher in cost, more time consuming to set up, and definitely not tuned for optimized Meta Quest 2 connectivity," explained CJ Chang, CEO of D-Link Corporation.




The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge is embedded with D-Link's advanced Wi-Fi 6 firmware and Meta's proprietary VR algorithms to bring low-latency wireless connectivity and improved Wi-Fi efficiency. Furthermore, the DWA-F18 features a compact design with simple installation and WPA3 Wi-Fi protection to let gamers experience safer, unrestricted, and fully-immersive VR adventures in the Metaverse.

"After joining the Metaverse Standards Forum in July, we aim to be a pioneer in Metaverse development. This exclusive partnership with Meta not only validates our innovation, but also affirms that D-Link is the ideal partner to combine technology, security, and quality. In anticipation of growing Metaverse trends, D-Link will continue to develop user-friendly and cost-effective Metaverse products and services to optimize consumer VR experiences," said CJ Chang.

The DWA-F18 VR Air Bridge will be available in North America soon.

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[DrCR]

Nice that they painted it black. That’s a good 2 to 5 percent FPS increase.

 

[GunShot]

VR is still a thing? Weird. Looking at Meta's shares lately, who knew?

 

[Mussels]

It's a USB 3.0 wifi6 hotspot creator for directly linking over wifi to the quest, without using an existing network.

My quest 2 works fine over wifi AC, but more bandwidth isn't neccesarily a bad thing

VR is still a thing? Weird. Looking at Meta's shares lately, who knew?

You're still alive? Weird. Looking at your post count, who knew?

 

[ZetZet]

VR is still a thing? Weird. Looking at Meta's shares lately, who knew?

Every company is losing stock value at the moment, because we are in a recession. VR has nothing to do with it, it's a growing industry.

 

[GunShot]

It's a USB 3.0 wifi6 hotspot creator for directly linking over wifi to the quest, without using an existing network.

My quest 2 works fine over wifi AC, but more bandwidth isn't neccesarily a bad thing




You're still alive? Weird. Looking at your post count, who knew?

Ha!

I tickled that nerve, huh?!

Every company is losing stock value at the moment, because we are in a recession. VR has nothing to do with it, it's a growing industry.

Sure it's not. I mean.... when a company has lost over $700 Billion in a very short time, that's a B, from its record high over a $1Trillion, yeah, that's sustainable and no need for investors' concern. /s

 

[ZetZet]

Sure it's not. I mean.... when a company has lost over $700 Billion in a very short time, that's a B, from its record high over a $1Trillion, yeah, that's sustainable and no need for investors' concern. /s

You sound like some salty investor. I agree that tech companies have had seriously overvalued stocks for a while though, investors stopped looking at revenue and profits and just started dreaming about some "breakthrough".

 

[INSTG8R]

I mean my Router is literally like 1m away from me max so when I use Airlink I don't think I could get any better signal than I do. That said I do have like 10 other devices on my Wifi Mesh while they aren't all on at the same time I guess having a dedicated "hotspot" just for my Quest could be useful. I mean I'm usually playing something at my desk stationary so I am using my Link cable most of time anyway. Honestly I rarely use AIrlink as it is.

 

[shaolin95]

VR is still a thing? Weird. Looking at Meta's shares lately, who knew?

Yes it's is a big thing, grandpa'. Go back to sleep

 

[Mussels]

Ha!

I tickled that nerve, huh?!

No, the non-post just gave me an aneurysm.
VR is bigger than ever, just because it's not in your life doesn't mean it's not in others.


I only just got a quest 2, and i'm able to stream everything wirelessly with 0ms total latency on default settings
Maybe 3ms of that is network, so i'm not sure going to wifi AX or wired is worth it.
It'd be far too high for PC gaming, but VR gaming doesn't work the same at all


I can get it around 20ms, but prefer max quality at 120FPS. even games like beatsaber don't really throw you off in the 25ms response range, everythings slower in VR games anyway to reduce motion sickness

 

[GunShot]

No, the non-post just gave me an aneurysm.
VR is bigger than ever, just because it's not in your life doesn't mean it's not in others.

Whoa! Ease up! It's really not that serious, you know?!

My post, at first, was not directed at NO ONE HERE, but apparently, that's not what we have here, though, from staff... at that. Wt...!!

 

[xtreemchaos]

that dongle sounds good, ive a goodish router but it dont run wireless VR good all the time with the misses looking at cake vids on youtube all day and the cat watching string and fly vids on his ipad . wonder what it would cost ?.

 

[Mussels]

Whoa! Ease up! It's really not that serious, you know?!

My post, at first, was not directed at NO ONE HERE, but apparently, that's not what we have here, though, from staff... at that. Wt...!!

This isn't reddit
But anyway, you said your courageous controversial opinion, followed by "it was just a joke bro" and next up is the "free speech" and "dictator moderators" amirite?

 

[GunShot]

This isn't reddit
But anyway, you said your courageous controversial opinion, followed by "it was just a joke bro" and next up is the "free speech" and "dictator moderators" amirite?

From initial post:

VR is still a thing? Weird. Looking at Meta's SHARE's lately, who knew?

Uhm... I'll just place this, FACT, right over here:

The Meta meltdown: This chart shows Facebook's fall from grace among the most valuable U.S. companies

Dogged by competitive and macroeconomic threats, Meta Platforms Inc. is sinking down the ranks of the largest U.S. companies.

www.google.com

 

[xtreemchaos]

id just like to point out Meta/2faceybook are makers of headsets and only a very small part of VR and quite late to the game by buying out Oculus. in my view VR is growing day by day. but whata i know eh.

 

[Mussels]

Steam surveys say around 2.5 million active users, with 66% of users have a "meta" headset (which includes oculus hardware)
VR is doing sooooo poorly, not like the graphs going up year on year, with dips in the exact same places as seasons change

Now staying on topic instead of bullshit statements, this bridge came out at USD $99 today



Removing the step of PC->Router would definitely help if the PC was also on wifi, or if you transport the quest and a gaming laptop around and can't rely on your own wifi network being available.

A clean wifi AC 5GHz network can easily max out the 200Mb bandwidth limit of Air bridge, if the hosting PC is wired by ethernet

 

[xtreemchaos]

hey thats too much money $99, there taking the Pea £50 and id have one its only a fancy dongle ill keep with my link cable for now bud.

 

[Octavean]

Interesting, the DLink DWA-X1850 is only ~$59 USD and it was my understanding that they were essentially the same. ~$100 doesn’t break the bank but it does seem a wee bit overpriced.

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[Mussels]

Interesting, the DLink DWA-X1850 is only ~$59 USD and it was my understanding that they were essentially the same. ~$100 doesn’t break the bank but it does seem a wee bit overpriced.

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That one's $159 Au :/

I'd guess something is different at the software level, the quest software was updated to add support for the F18 dongle specifically