HTC VIVE Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest: How to Setup

The new HTC VIVE Facial Tracker provides accurate mouth, lip, and low-face readings and movement tracking. In this guide, we’ll show you how to setup the VIVE Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest!

We’ll go over:

• An overview of the Facial Tracker
• What you need to get things working on the Oculus Quest
• How to play VR games with facial tracking features

If you are having any trouble, make sure to comment down at the bottom of this guide and let us know.

What is the HTC VIVE Facial Tracker?

The HTC VIVE Facial Tracker is an accessory that attaches on to your headset and tracks 38 facial movements across the lips, jaw, teeth, tongue, chin, and cheeks. It is the number one way to depict the entire lower half of your face.

The dual camera Facial Tracker solution features 60Hz tracking rate with low 6ms latency and an IR illuminator, ensuring accurate high-performance, responsive tracking in even the darkest conditions.

By default, the Facial Tracker sticks to the HTC VIVE Pro VR headset, allowing a quick and easy set-up. However, the hardware also works with the Oculus Quest and other VR headsets with a little bit of setup work.

We’ll go over what you need next!

Click here to buy the VIVE Facial Tracker, available on March 24th.

What You Need to Connect the VIVE Facial Tracker to the Oculus Quest

In order to get things working right, you need the following hardware:

• USB-C to USB-A adapter
• A long USB-A extension cable to run from your Facial Tracker to your PC

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After you have a USB-C to USB-A adapter and extension cable, you will be able to setup and use the Tracker. Mounting the tracker to your Oculus Quest may take a little bit of effort to center tightly. Use double-sided tape as needed to get things secure.

Steam VR Access

In order to use the tracker, you need access to Steam VR. The tracker is not supported by Oculus or any games in the Oculus store.

There are two popular ways to access Steam on your Oculus Quest, Virtual Desktop and Oculus Link.

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop is an application that lets you mirror your nearby PC inside of your VR headset. People do this to watch movies, browse the internet, or play games inside of virtual reality. Recently, the Oculus version of Virtual Desktop was updated with Steam VR support without the need for any additional patching.

Oculus Link

Oculus Link is a hardwired solution for connecting your Oculus Quest VR headset to your computer. When you setup Oculus Link, it gives you the ability to run all of those awesome PC virtual reality games again. You use your Quest display and controllers, but the games are powered by your PC.

Either option will work to setup the VIVE Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest. Our tutorial guides will walk you step-by-step through the process.

How to Setup the VIVE Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest

And that’s it! You have now setup your HTC VIVE Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest.

Below is a list of the games which support the tracker.

Games That Support the Facial Tracker

Any developer can add support for face tracking to their Steam VR game. A list of some of the ones with support today are:

• Neos VR

If you know any other game with support, let us know what you use your Facial Tracker on the Oculus Quest for.

Video Demo

Want to see how this looks in action? Check out the helpful Youtube video below.

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