Meta’s first Quest VR headset will no longer get any feature updates

In an e mail despatched to customers, Meta stated it will proceed supporting Quest 1 with a number of — however fairly massive — modifications. While homeowners can nonetheless use the system and the apps obtainable for it, the Quest 1 will no longer be receiving new options. In addition, Meta will solely be rolling out crucial bug fixes and safety patches to the headset till 2024. As The Verge notes, the system has primarily been getting the identical updates as its successor over the previous few years, however now Quest 1 homeowners will should make do with the options the system already has. 

It’s potential that Meta is having difficulties ensuring new options are additionally engaged on the Quest 1’s getting older {hardware}. The firm launched the first headset again in 2019, when it was nonetheless generally known as Facebook and the system was nonetheless underneath the Oculus branding. It’s powered by a Snapdragon 835 chip that was launched in 2017 and was already two years outdated at that time. The Quest 2 was an enormous improve when it got here out in 2020, and its Snapdragon XR2 processor offered a major energy enhance that permits it to play extra complicated video games and experiences. 

That stated, the first Quest can be shedding entry to some skills it already has: Users will no longer be capable to create or be a part of events going ahead. Further, customers who’ve entry to Meta Horizon Home’s social options will no longer be capable to entry them beginning on March fifth, 2023. That means they will solely have a few months left to ask different customers into their Home or go to another person’s Home.