10-20-2020, 10:18 AM
Oculus Quest 2 quietly drops support for Oculus Go games
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/oculus-quest-2-quietly-drops-support-for-oculus-go-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cdc14bf0-7fff-f7e4-3daf-757bfd46d8ce"><span>Facebook quietly dropped support for Oculus Go games and apps from the Oculus Quest 2’s feature set, essentially cutting an entire library of games made for the mid-tier Go headset off from any new VR adopters moving forward.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There wasn’t much of an official announcement. Instead, Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack <a href="https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1316827354010914818">noted the end of support in tweet</a> spotted by the <a href="https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-quest-2-go-apps-support/">Road to VR </a>team today. In that tweet, Carmack said that he “totally lost the internal debate over backwards compatibility” and that the Quest 2 doesn’t offer Go emulation because of it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Oculus-parent Facebook announced <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/347327/Oculus_Go_emulation_coming_to_the_Quest_later_this_year.php">plans to bring Oculus Go emulation </a>to the original Quest headset last year, and started to wind down support for the standalone Oculus Go headset <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/365341/Oculus_is_winding_down_Oculus_Go_support_to_instead_double_down_on_Quest_and_Rift.php">just a few months back</a>. With all that in tandem, Go game developers might have had some peace of mind that their apps could live on through emulation on still-supported headsets, but it looks like that won’t be the case. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Given that the Quest 2 is Oculus’ official, <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/370285/Facebook_to_discontinue_Oculus_Rift_S_will_no_longer_develop_PConly_VR_hardware.php">and really only</a>, entry point for new VR users, this means that any new adopters won’t be able to purchase or download apps for a system that Oculus just last year called “a game-changer” that “opened up VR to many more people” and “helped redefine immersive entertainment.”</span></p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/oculus-quest-2-quietly-drops-support-for-oculus-go-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cdc14bf0-7fff-f7e4-3daf-757bfd46d8ce"><span>Facebook quietly dropped support for Oculus Go games and apps from the Oculus Quest 2’s feature set, essentially cutting an entire library of games made for the mid-tier Go headset off from any new VR adopters moving forward.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There wasn’t much of an official announcement. Instead, Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack <a href="https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1316827354010914818">noted the end of support in tweet</a> spotted by the <a href="https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-quest-2-go-apps-support/">Road to VR </a>team today. In that tweet, Carmack said that he “totally lost the internal debate over backwards compatibility” and that the Quest 2 doesn’t offer Go emulation because of it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Oculus-parent Facebook announced <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/347327/Oculus_Go_emulation_coming_to_the_Quest_later_this_year.php">plans to bring Oculus Go emulation </a>to the original Quest headset last year, and started to wind down support for the standalone Oculus Go headset <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/365341/Oculus_is_winding_down_Oculus_Go_support_to_instead_double_down_on_Quest_and_Rift.php">just a few months back</a>. With all that in tandem, Go game developers might have had some peace of mind that their apps could live on through emulation on still-supported headsets, but it looks like that won’t be the case. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Given that the Quest 2 is Oculus’ official, <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/370285/Facebook_to_discontinue_Oculus_Rift_S_will_no_longer_develop_PConly_VR_hardware.php">and really only</a>, entry point for new VR users, this means that any new adopters won’t be able to purchase or download apps for a system that Oculus just last year called “a game-changer” that “opened up VR to many more people” and “helped redefine immersive entertainment.”</span></p>
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