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I recently decided that I was going to figure out how to play custom Beat Saber tracks on my Meta Quest 2, no matter what it took. Thankfully, the free program I ended up using, called SideQuest, only took an hour or two of tinkering to get working, making it the perfect weekend project. Even better, SideQuest is useful for so much more than just modifying Beat Saber — it lets you sideload community-made games and experiences and even change the Quest home environment that acts as the backdrop to the system menus and app picker.
If that sounds intriguing, read on: we’re about to go over how to install SideQuest and use it to get software onto your headset.
Installing SideQuest
The first thing you have to do is install SideQuest on your…
