VirtualDesktop mainland-China guide: wireless VRChat streaming on Quest
Getting Quest streaming for VRChat working from mainland China, with a Chinese localization and a heads-up on the traps to avoid.
This one is a mainland-China guide for VirtualDesktop. If you want your Quest headset to wirelessly stream VRChat running on your PC, VD is currently the smoothest option. The catch is that the official side doesn’t care much for users in mainland China, so it often just won’t connect. This video walks the whole working route from start to finish.
It’s released under the name of a dwgx1337 birthday special edition, and it declares that it contains no cracks or patches whatsoever — to get the project files, dwgx1337 paid Guy Godin of Virtual Desktop Inc 2 JPY. Of course, I don’t know this dwgx1337; I’m DWGX (github.com/dwgx). Jokes aside, the actual route is spelled out clearly: change your DNS, hijack the auth domain, pair it with local handling, and route around the official restrictions on the China region. The version is C2acked 1.34.18, and there’s an offline Chinese localization bundled in too — the point being to let the ol’ noggin parse human language properly.
A trap to dodge while we’re at it. Another version on Bilibili (BV1xrt3zwEkM) claims you have to set your name to ZuRiUs — don’t buy it. Set it that way and its author can connect into your PC account with their own Oculus, seeing your screen in full — and if you’re mid-ERP, that’s a social death. VD’s official side has also flagged the risk of a headset accidentally connecting to a guest network; same principle: whoever’s name you fill in is who you’re handing the connection rights to.
The project lives at VirtualDesktop Offline Localization Research (dwgx.github.io/VirtualDesktop). It’s not going public; the project and the project files go through QQ 974118886. Today’s my birthday, so I’m just putting it out there. If you’re going to build something, build it right.