I'm having a little bit of a hard time getting Oculus Link to reliably work. And it's probably not a cable issue, since when I did get it to get enabled, it worked beautifully.
Symptoms: the Oculus application on the PC detects the headset, states that it's active. When I put the Quest on, there is a pop up window asking for "enable Link". I enable it, and from there I have two symptoms:
One out of 10: Oculus Link does get enabled, I can launch applications, SteamVR, everything works as it should, no glitches
9 out of 10: - The Quest reverts back to "standalone" mode - If I access the settings on the Quest, I can see the Oculus Link option, and when I click on it, it states it cannot connect and fails to detect the host application on the PC - If I access the settings on the Oculus application on the PC, it does detect the Quest and state it's "active and connected"
Note: Once I have it running, if I select the Guardian settings, it will revert back to the Quest mode of operation, and it will never go back to the Link mode of operation (well at least I could not figure out how to)
So I decided to buy an official Oculus Link cable, connected directly to the USB-C port on my RTX2080. And guess what... it does not work either.
Symptoms are slightly different now though: - Quest gets detected on first connection - Headset requests to enable Link, which I do, but after a few seconds it reverts back to Oculus Quest home screen, stating "PC Disconnected"
From there, I can't detect the Quest anymore, it remains as "not connected". If I remove it from the app, it get detected again.
Seriously, this is painful. I mean I could understand if this was a cable issue, or if it was limited to my setup, but the fact is I bought an official cable, and on top of that I have the exact same issue on another PC. But not on a third one.