Oculus Quest owners will soon be able to run Oculus Rift games by connecting the VR headset to a PC.

The new functionality, dubbed Oculus Link, will arrive in November through a software update. Owners will just need a USB-C cable and a gaming PC capable of running Oculus Rift games.

"Your Quest is basically a Rift now too," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today at the Oculus Connect conference in San Jose. "This is going to work with most USB-C cables out there."

The update will let Quest owners get more out of the device; it currently runs VR experiences and games directly over the headset's hardware, which uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 VR processor—or technology on par with a smartphone. Rift-based games, on the other hand, generally require high-end PC hardware, including a dedicated Nvidia or AMD graphics card.

Quest owners can expect another big update early next year. Eventually, you'll be able to use the VR headset without the wireless handheld controllers. Instead, sensors onboard the Quest will read your hand movements and translate them into the virtual world.

"So this means no controller, no buttons, no straps, no external sensors. Just the full range of motion in your hands," Zuckerberg said. "It takes the experience to a whole new level."

Facebook's goal is to remove all VR peripherals, such as hardware-based controllers, external sensors, and cables, and build the technology into the VR headset itself, making it more convenient for widespread adoption. The Quest, for instance, functions without the need to place external sensors inside a room. All the sensor and tracking technology is baked into the device.

Although today's VR technology has yet to take the public by storm, Zuckerberg indicated the company's recently released Oculus Quest VR headset is in demand. "We're selling them as fast as we can make them," Zuckerberg said.

So far, the Oculus Store has sold more than $100 million in content, he added. Twenty percent of sales have been for the Oculus Quest.

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