questpad
Use Meta Quest Touch controllers as a USB gamepad.
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Details
- External ID
- 1413529578
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- questpad
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- dualshock4, embedded, gamepad, gyro, meta-quest, nrf52840, oculus, quest, reverse-engineering, rust, steam-input
Enrichment
- Niche
- hardware device drivers and utility software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- usb gamepad driver for meta quest touch controllers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a USB gamepad emulator that reads Meta Quest Touch controller inputs involves reverse engineering proprietary RF/Bluetooth protocols and writing custom OS input drivers.
What it would actually take: Building this requires writing custom kernel-level input drivers (e.g., Windows HID / ViGEmBus or Linux uinput), paired with either an on-headset sideloaded Android service streaming low-level tracking packets over USB/Wi-Fi or reverse engineering controller Bluetooth packets directly. It requires embedded systems, driver development, and hardware communications expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 339 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #241 of 340 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one · hn · 2025-12-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- inlay · github · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- WinStadia · github · 2026-09-19 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- GBRemote · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Play on your TV using mobile phones as controllers · hn · 2026-04-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- expensive_mai · github · 2026-10-09 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- JoyLink: Phone as Gamepad · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Refract · github · 2026-09-27 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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