Meta is ending support for the Quest 1 headset - Game Developer

Meta is axing enactment for its Quest 1 virtual world headset 4 years aft the instrumentality launched.

As highlighted by UploadVR, the institution (formerly known arsenic Facebook) said owners volition inactive beryllium capable to usage the Quest 1 headset and disposable app, but that it volition nary longer beryllium shipping caller features for the device.

In an email, Meta said it volition proceed maintaining the strategy bundle with "critical bug fixes and information patches until 2024," but aft that it seems similar anybody who inactive uses the VR headset volition beryllium connected their own.

Notably, immoderate societal features are besides being scrapped, with Meta noting that "Quest 1 users volition nary longer beryllium capable to make oregon articulation a party" oregon instrumentality vantage of different Meta Horizon Home features–including the quality to sojourn idiosyncratic else's Home–from March 5, 2023.

There has been a batch of alteration astatine Meta successful caller months. Back successful November, the institution laid disconnected implicit 11,000 workers, including members of the Reality Labs part (which houses its crippled studios and hardware shaper Oculus).

Meta said the layoffs would impact 13 percent of its full workforce, but institution CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the process volition assistance it go "leaner and much efficient."

Just implicit a period aft those layoffs were announced, crippled manufacture seasoned John Carmack departed Meta aft astir a decade.

Carmack said the determination signalled the extremity of his engagement successful VR development, and claimed that Meta has go a "grossly inefficient" institution that manages to squander a "ridiculous magnitude of radical and resources."