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Enlarge / RIP to a existent one.
The archetypal Oculus Quest volition halt receiving caller diagnostic updates and suffer entree to the company's existing societal VR features, according to an email sent to many Quest users this week.
While Quest headset owners volition inactive beryllium capable to usage the instrumentality and each disposable apps, they volition nary longer beryllium capable to "create oregon articulation a party," according to the email. Access to Meta's Horizon Home features volition besides beryllium chopped disconnected connected March 5, the institution wrote. And portion Meta volition nary longer beryllium "delivering caller features" to Quest 1 users, the institution says it volition proceed to supply "critical bug fixes and information patches until 2024."
The announcement comes little than 4 years aft the Quest's archetypal launch arsenic Meta's (then Oculus') archetypal wireless headset with afloat six-degree-of-freedom head- and hand-tracking. That archetypal mentation of the Quest, which launched astatine $400, was succeeded by the $300 Quest 2 successful precocious 2020.
The Quest 2 reportedly sold tens of millions of units contempt a $100 terms summation past year. That comparative income occurrence has meant galore VR developers are progressively targeting their games astatine the Quest 2's Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset and not the archetypal Quest's weaker Snapdragon 835. Meta's announcement won't impact enactment for the Quest 2 astatine this point, nor for the precocious released $1,500 Quest Pro.
The archetypal Quest sunset announcement comes little than a period aft erstwhile Meta CTO John Carmack announced his departure from the company, which helium said was "operating astatine fractional the effectiveness that would marque maine happy." Carmack was a large proponent of the archetypal Quest wrong Meta and a booster of its untethered predecessor, the Oculus Go, which helium unlocked via a post-discontinuation update successful 2021.
In an October keynote speech, Carmack warned that developers shouldn't plan high-end apps for the Quest Pro earlier "crunching it down" for the little almighty Quest 2. "The low-end strategy is going to beryllium wherever each your existent customers are," helium warned.
