Since May of last year, all new apps in the store must support Quest 1 as well. Even apps that existed prior to May last year can no longer support Quest 1 with new updates. Oculus Quest launched in May 2019, almost six years ago, with the two-year old Snapdragon 835 chipset from 2017.
Meta announced Quest 1’s slow deprecation in January 2023. It received its last version of the operating system in February 2023 and stopped receiving bug fixes and security updates in August 2024. Quest 3, Pro, and 3S now run on v72.
In reality, few apps support Quest 1 in spite of the change. Mata SDKs stopped supporting Quest 1 with v51 in April 2023. Quest 1 is half as fast as Quest 2 and has less GPU power than Quest 3 if you are using SDKs older than version 50. Multiple VR game developers who have already dropped support for Quest 1 told UploadVR that it made up only a tiny fraction of their user base, while its anaemic eight year old chipset was burdensome to continue to support.
Quest 1 uses the Snapdragon 835.haven’t been allowedThis isn’t yet the complete end of Quest 1 though. Quest 1 users can still use the headset and continue using older apps. However, still using Quest 1 isn’t exactly recommended, given that it no longer gets security updates.
Unlike with some other consumer electronics companies Meta doesn’t offer a trade-in program, so Quest 1 owners will need to pay the full price to upgrade to a newer headset, the most affordable (new) being the $300
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