Minecraft is dropping VR support next year
Minecraft will no longer work in PC VR and PlayStation VR headsets after a 'final update' in March 2025.
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"drop" is an autoantonym.
Will VR be introduced as a new feature next year, or is it already a feature that will be abandoned next year?
there has been a vr version that is aparently no longer supported
Would be fucked if they delete the working version to ensure "purity" and parity in the state of supported versions, and not just leave it be, not update it and let people keep their shit.
Edit: Aaaaaaaand it looks like that's the case. Live and let live. Cull the weak.
There's no real VR version of Minecraft for them to leave be or for people to lose access to. VR is just a feature built into the Bedrock Edition that's activated by launching the game through a headset.
Unless you count the Samsung Gear VR version. That one's been left alone ever since the Gear VR fell into obsolescence and can still be played in its unsupported state on an unsupported headset.
There's no real VR version of Minecraft for them to leave be or for people to lose access to. VR is just a feature built into the Bedrock Edition that's activated by launching the game through a headset.
Since Better Together, that is the VR version, just like Bedrock on iOS is the iOS version.
No it's not like that. Unlike Minecraft Bedrock on PC, XBOX, PS, Switch, iOS, or Android, there's no VR specific Minecraft version that can be installed. If you have Minecraft on PS4 or PC, VR support is already built in.
For example, Skyrim and Skyrim VR are separate games, but Minecraft isn't. They can't just leave the VR version alone because there is no VR-only version and the only thing that determines whether you're playing in 2D or VR is a flag that's set on launch.
Edit: Again, discounting the Gear VR version here because they dropped support for it long before Better Together happened and it can only be played on the Gear VR which was basically Google Cardboard.
I don't see how that's a difference. They all use the same codebase, so either none of these platform editions exist or all of them exist.
They're the same codebase, but they all need to be bought separately from each other. Like, there will probably come a day when Minecraft Bedrock on Nintendo Switch stops receiving updates, but the PS5 version continues on.
For there to be a VR version for them to just stop updating like that, a VR-specific version would need to exist in the first place. They can't just abandon VR as-is but still have it available to be played like they did with Minecraft on the 3DS because there isn't a VR version they can abandon.
They abandoned the Gear VR verison, but that was a separate installation from regular Minecraft Bedrock and they could just stop updating that version of the app.
Abandoning maintenance of the feature is pretty much just dropping the version. This just feels like needlessly pedantic talk to me. What matters is that this medium of play is now unsupported.
They can't really just leave a feature to start breaking as updates go on, especially not one that can cause as many problems as VR can.
Yeah, so they're dropping it.