How to sideload XXX apps (like VR Playa and SLR) on your Oculus / Meta Quest

By default, your Meta Quest is kept in a family-friendly walled garden. Search the Meta Horizon Store for adult content and you will draw a blank — Meta does not allow apps made for sexual gratification, so there is no official porn app to download. That is at odds with the fact that VR porn videos and adult VR games are some of the fastest-growing corners of both the porn and VR worlds.

The good news: you do not need the store. There are two ways to watch adult content on a Meta Quest, and one of them takes about thirty seconds. This guide covers both — the easy browser route that needs no setup at all, and the full sideloading route for dedicated apps like SexLikeReal.

Is there adult content in the Meta Quest store?

No. Meta’s Horizon Store content policy explicitly bars anything made for sexual gratification, so no VR porn studio can list an app there — the same walled-garden approach Apple takes on the iPhone. What changed in recent years is that you no longer need a technical workaround to get around it. Two routes are open to you:

• The browser — open a VR porn site in the Meta Quest Browser and watch immersively, with nothing to install. Easiest by far.
• Sideloading — install a dedicated app (like the SexLikeReal or Playa app) from outside the store using a free tool called SideQuest. More setup, but a slicker native experience.

Start with the browser. Only bother with sideloading if you want a dedicated app’s extra features, such as teledildonic toy sync or offline downloads.

The easy way: watch VR porn in the Meta Quest browser

This is the method most people should use, and it did not really exist when guides like this were first written. Modern VR porn sites play straight through the headset’s own browser, in full immersive VR, with no developer mode, no cable and no PC:

1. Put on your Quest and open the Meta Quest Browser from the apps menu.
2. Go to a VR porn site that supports in-browser playback — SexLikeReal, VRBangers and POVR all do.
3. Start playing a scene. Once it is running, a small VR goggles icon appears on the video.
4. Tap that icon and the scene wraps around you in full 180° or 360° VR.

Worth knowing: the browser route needs no developer account, no SideQuest and no cable. For most people it is all you will ever need, sideloading is only worth it for the extra features a dedicated app adds. For which sites are best, see our ranked VR porn sites guide.

The power-user way: sideloading adult apps with SideQuest

Sideloading means installing an app manually, bypassing the official store. It is how you get dedicated VR porn apps like the SexLikeReal app or VRBangers’ Playa player onto the headset. The steps look long, but most are one-time setup — once you are done, adding future apps takes seconds. The free tool that does the work is SideQuest.

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Sideloading requires Developer Mode, and Meta only unlocks that toggle once your account belongs to a developer ‘organization.’ This is free and takes a minute — you are not publishing anything.

1. On a computer, sign in to the Meta Horizon developer dashboard with the same Meta account your headset uses, and create an organization (any name will do). Accept the developer agreement.
2. Open the Meta Horizon app on your phone (this is the app formerly called the Oculus app). Tap the menu icon, choose Devices, select your headset, then Headset settings → Developer Mode and turn it on.
3. Reboot your headset.

Step 2: Set up SideQuest

1. On your computer, download and install the SideQuest desktop app and create a free SideQuest account. Windows users should install the Meta/Oculus ADB drivers first, following SideQuest’s setup guide.
2. If you have an unlock pattern on your headset, temporarily disable it (Settings on the headset). You can turn it back on afterwards.
3. Connect the headset to the computer with a USB cable — SideQuest suggests not using the charging cable that came in the box, as many are power-only.
4. Put the headset on. When you see ‘Allow USB debugging?’, tick Always allow from this computer and accept. SideQuest should now show a green dot for ‘connected.’

Step 3: Install an app (Playa / VRBangers)

1. In the SideQuest app, open the store and search for a VR video player. Playa — the VRBangers player — is a good, well-supported starting point. Install it to your headset.
2. Disconnect the headset from the computer. You only need to reconnect when you want to sideload something new.
3. Put the headset on and open the app. In Playa, choose Add Website and enter your site, for example vrbangers.com, then sign in. Sideloaded apps live in the Unknown Sources section of your library.
4. To add more sites that support Playa, just add them to the list — vrbtrans.com, for example, if you prefer trans content.

Bonus: install the SexLikeReal app

The SexLikeReal app is the best all-in-one option: a huge library of VR content in one place, with support for interactive teledildonic scenes and live cams built right into the app.

Installing it follows the same Developer Mode and SideQuest setup above (you will not need to create a second organization if you already made one for Playa). With the headset connected, grab the SexLikeReal desktop installer for Mac or Windows and run it to push the app to your headset. When it is done, disconnect, open your Library, and find the SLR app under Unknown Sources.

Which apps and sites are worth it

Whichever route you take, the content comes from the same VR porn sites. A few pointers:

• SexLikeReal — the best all-rounder: one app, a massive multi-studio library, teledildonics and live cams.
• VRBangers / Playa — strong original studio content, and Playa doubles as a player for other sites.
• Everything else — for the full ranked list of studios and what each does best, see our best VR porn sites guide, our adult VR games roundup, and our Quest 3 VR porn guide.

Staying safe when you sideload

Sideloading bypasses the store’s safety checks, so a little caution goes a long way:

• Never sideload a random .apk file from a forum or link. Stick to reputable apps through SideQuest or a studio’s own official installer — a stray APK is one of the easiest ways to put malware on a device.
• Turn it back off when you are done. Once your apps are installed, disable Developer Mode and USB debugging — you do not need them for day-to-day use, and Meta warns accounts can be limited if Developer Mode is misused.
• If in doubt, use the browser. It needs none of this and carries none of the risk.

Meta Quest porn FAQs

Read next

• The best VR porn sites, reviewed and ranked
• VR porn on the Meta Quest 3
• The best adult VR games
• The best interactive porn sites