Meta to Stop Supporting Original Quest VR Headset - CNET

Meta plans to halt supporting its archetypal Quest virtual world headset aft 2024, the institution has revealed.

The institution volition proceed providing caller features for the standalone Quest 1 headset done 2024, but immoderate features volition yet spell away, the institution said successful an email sent to Quest owners. However, the institution said it volition proceed providing "critical bug fixes and information patches until 2024."

The email, surface shots of which were posted to Reddit, bespeak that Quest 1 users volition inactive beryllium capable to usage their headset and disposable apps, but they volition suffer the quality to articulation oregon make a party. Quest 1 users volition besides suffer entree to the Meta Horizon Home societal features connected March 5, meaning users won't beryllium capable to sojourn different users' Homes oregon invitation them to sojourn theirs.

When the archetypal Quest was introduced successful May 2019, it was wide regarded arsenic the champion VR instrumentality of the year, providing a mode for friends to connect, see theatre experiments and feel concisely similar you've escaped. But the aging headset has taken a backseat to the Quest 2, an improved, little costly sequel, that was released successful October 2020.

 And portion the Quest 2 is inactive the champion self-contained VR headset close now, and the astir affordable for its features, VR users are eagerly awaiting the Quest 3, a mainstream, lower-cost follow-up to the 2-year-old Quest 2 that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said successful October was expected to debut sometime this year.

Meta didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.