Descent 3 VR
Six degrees of freedom, from a real cockpit, on Meta Quest.
About
A VR port of the Descent 3 open source engine for Meta Quest, running standalone. You sit in a virtual cockpit: the ship flies on the Touch controllers while you look around freely. The world and the cockpit are rendered in stereo; menus, cutscenes and the flat HUD float in front of you.
Features
- Stereo world and cockpit with head tracking
- Full ship control on the Touch controllers
- Menus and dialogs fully usable with the controllers
- Quest system keyboard for text fields like the pilot name
- Runs at 90 Hz where available
Manual
Installation
- Sideload the APK with SideQuest or
adb install -r Descent3-Quest-0.2-beta.apk. - Copy all
.hogfiles plus themissionsandmoviesfolders to/sdcard/Android/data/com.descentdevelopers.descent3/files/. - From GOG/Steam: after copying with adb, make the folders readable for the app with
adb shell "cd /sdcard/Android/data/com.descentdevelopers.descent3/files && find . -mindepth 1 -type d -exec chmod 2777 {} +". - From the original CDs: the zip download contains
tools/stage_gamedata.sh, which extracts the data from CD images and pushes it to the headset.
Good to know
- Uninstalling the app deletes the game data folder: keep a copy of your game files.
- Rear view and inventory have no controller buttons yet.
- Some disc copies lack the music; pre-v1.4 data lacks a few images and sounds.
- Multiplayer is untested.
Controller mapping
| Input | Flying | Menus |
|---|---|---|
| Left stick | Thrust forward/back, slide left/right | Previous / next item |
| Right stick | Turn, pitch (stick up = nose down) | Move within lists |
| Right trigger | Fire primary | Select |
| Left trigger | Fire secondary | Select |
| Grips | Bank left / right | |
| A | Afterburner | Select |
| B | Flare (hold: next primary) | Back |
| X / Y | Slide down / up | X = Enter |
| Right stick click | Drop countermeasure (hold: next countermeasure) | |
| Left stick click | Next secondary (hold: headlight) | |
| Menu button | Pause menu (hold: automap) | Back |
| Meta button (hold) | Recenter the view |
Download
Descent 3 for Meta Quest — Beta 0.2 latestquest-v0.2-beta · 16 Sep 2026
All releases: github.com/SgtBilko76/Descent3-QuestVR/releases
Credits: Based on the Descent 3 open source engine by the Descent community.