Villagers654/Venture

Venture is an open-source Meta Quest emulator that lets people run Quest games they own on a PC headset instead of inside a standalone Quest. Its pitch is that each game runs as an ordinary PC process rendering on the GPU and talking to the headset through OpenXR, with no virtual machine in between. The README frames this as the route to full PC speed and resolution.

How a session works

Install the launcher, sign in with the Meta account that owns the games, then install a title from the library and press Play after starting the headset's runtime. Beyond the Meta library, an Import page can add titles from a connected Quest in developer mode (USB or Wi-Fi debugging; nothing on the headset is changed) or from a local APK, ZIP or folder with the APK and its data. Titles can optionally be exposed to Steam and SteamVR so they appear in those libraries.

Underneath, Venture is a C++ project whose JIT is built on the Eden Emulator Project's fork of Dynarmic, an ARM JIT also used by projects the README credits. That is the mechanism that lets ARM-based Quest titles run as native PC processes.

Compatibility and performance evidence

Compatibility and speed are the main claims, and they are author-reported. The README says Venture runs all 25 games the team tested, against 7 for "the next best", and publishes average-fps and 1% low charts for seven games in which Venture is faster in every one. These are project measurements with no described test hardware or methodology, so they indicate relative results under the authors' conditions rather than a guarantee for a particular PC or headset. The compatibility wiki is the authoritative list to check before buying or installing a title.

Requirements and limitations

• OS: Windows (installer) and Linux (deb, rpm, AUR venture-bin, AppImage, Flatpak, or a tarball). Building from source is documented for both and pulls a pinned toolchain, JDK and, on Windows, ANGLE into .deps.
• Hardware: a PC plus a PC VR headset and its runtime are assumed; the workflow is headset- and desktop-based, not standalone.
• Account: a Meta account that owns the Quest games, used to sign in and install.
• Diagnostics and privacy: the debug-report flow collects launcher and game logs from the last launch and uploads them as an unlisted paste that expires after 90 days, returning a link; if upload fails, the report file can be attached to an issue manually.
• Legality/affiliation: Venture is not affiliated with Meta, and a separate disclaimer covers usage.

Venture is licensed GPL-3.0-or-later and bundles code under other licenses (GPL-3.0-or-later, 0BSD, MIT, LGPL-2.1). Reuse and redistribution should follow those terms.

HotRepo's take

The project was observed at 112 total stars on the NEW-REPOSITORY board on 2026-10-29; that is a single dated snapshot, not a growth trend, and it does not speak to emulation quality or reliability.

Project source and documentation