- Oculus Quest first launched in 2019, and in January 2023, Meta announced plans to eventually discontinue support for the Quest 1.
- But come May, new apps released in the Quest Store won’t be playable on Quest.
New Quest apps will be unable to support Oculus Quest 1 headsets from May. This isn’t because Quest 1 isn’t powerful enough to play them anymore, but because developers will no longer be able to upload them and players won’t be able to see them.
Phase-out plan for Quest 1
This is part of the Quest 1 phase-out plan that Meta announced last year.
The Oculus Quest 1 headset launched almost five years ago and hasn’t been sold since the launch of the Quest 2 in October 2020.
In January 2023, Meta announced plans to eventually halt support for Quest 1. In an email to users at the time, Meta said that the Quest 1 would continue to function.
However, the company would not ship new features for the device.
As of 30 April, new Quest Store apps will not appear in the shops of players using Quest 1, and developers will not be able to upload new apps that only support Quest.
Builds for new apps that support an array of headsets, Quest 1 included, will have that Quest 1 support blocked.
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Voices from Quest 1 users
Quest 1 users have also already lost access to certain social features, and the Oculus SDK stopped supporting Quest 1 back in April 2023.
Quest 1 users believe it’s less about “buying our new console because the games look better”, it’s more about “buying our new headset because your old one has been deliberately destroyed.”
