Oculus Quest 1 - End of Updates/Support Notification

[shodgson8]

Just had the following email come through. Losing previously available features is probably the biggest thing here. I suppose in VR 4 years is a lifetime.

 

[Bigkrev]

I'm not surprised- even in 2020, a year after the Quest 1 had launched, they were making games like Medal of Honor that simply did not work on the Quest 1, only the 2. They really treated the Quest 1 as a first gen proof of concept before making the Quest 2

 

[PurpleMoustache]

I've been meaning to dig out my Quest 1 to update it like 20 times and merge my FB account to a Meta account, as apparently if I don't do it by 1/1/2024 I lose all my shit, but man this makes me want to do it less. I was banking on the Quest Pro to be a Quest 3 of sorts to upgrade… damn you enterprise users

 

[DRock]

Not being able to join a party is some dumb shit.

 

[JustTeaThankYou]

"we remain commited to supporting the community of Quest 1 users" -- immediately lists a number of ways they are no longer going to support the community of Quest 1 users, the entire purpose of this communication.

Like I get it, it's fine to drop support for hardware after awhile, their security updates last longer than Google bothered with my phone, it just tickled me how many rounds of marketers must have sweated over this copy to make it this condescending.

 

[Kaiser Swayze]

We're going to brick your Quest in 2024 but thanks for supporting us!

 

[JigglesBunny]

I'm honestly surprised it took them this long. They made it abundantly clear that they had zero interest in supporting the Rift line or the Quest 1 when the Quest 2 launched.

Hopefully they don't make the same mistake twice and kill off the Quest 2 as soon as they drop the successor later this year. That thing is in millions of homes, they need to keep it alive as long as technically feasible.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Do the phone carrier thing and let me trade in my Quest 1 for like 200 dollars off the Quest 2 or something.

 

[pm1nze5e]

Okay, so why the hell am I still being forced to migrate from my Oculus account into a Meta account by the end of the month, if I won't even be able to use any of the features you told me I needed to migrate my account for? That's some major BS.

 

[Burai]

Do the phone carrier thing and let me trade in my Quest 1 for like 200 dollars off the Quest 2 or something.

Click to shrink...

lol, no, they aren't subsidising VR any more. Zuckerberg gotta eat.

 

[C.Mongler]

Lol this sucks, but I'm also not surprised at all. It's felt like Meta has been floundering with their decisions around VR for the past few years, so this is just par for the course. It's torpedoed my interest in really purchasing any more VR products from them (or software for my Quest 1, really) unless it gets to a point where I really have to. Until then, I'm still fine just playing the games I already have on my Quest 1, or more often just connecting it to my gaming PC to play games there instead.

Really curious to see if Valve's Deckard comes to fruition some day, because that is far more likely to get me to pick up new hardware than anything Meta does at this point.