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misk @sopuli.xyz

2mo ago

Minecraft is dropping VR support next year

www.pcgamer.com 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.

Minecraft is dropping VR support next year

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Honestly, Im really suprised official support lasted this long. Microsoft largely gave up on VR years ago.
- that hype train was fun though. The standard microsoft loop.
  They build a crappy version
  Put no actual investment in it
  Drop the idea
  Someone else comes along, makes a version that's great, and microsoft gets jealous
  Microsoft throws 1000% of their resources behind the technology which they are now behind in
  They cram the product down everyone's throats, not realizing how much they're annoying their base
  Realizing defeat, they quietly kill off the product and act like it never happened.
  Windows Tiles, Windows Phone, Zune, Tablets, AI, take your pick
  
  NGL x86-64 tablets are legitimately much more useful than their competition.
  
  I wish Windows Phone had stayed. More competition in the mobile space is good, and they had some functioning ideas. Eventually they gave up and turned into a pale Apple imitator before giving up.
- Software "support" is such a fucked up thing these days.
  Dropping support no longer means "You're on your own now, bye!"
  Dropping support now means "Yoink! That's ours. Bye!"
  
  Honestly, the idiots running software that has been unsupported for years with gaping security holes that enabled botnets to attack everyone else are to blame for that one.
- Didnt even know it has support. But I also dont have VR so I never bothered looking it up.

I'd be sad if it wasn't for the fact that 3rd party methods of playing MC in VR are actually better than the official method. Though this does suck for those with PSVR and not PCVR (though, can't it do that now?)

"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.

Well that's a shame

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/vivecraft/files/all?page=1&pageSize=20
- Vivecraft is on Modrinth as well
  https://modrinth.com/mod/vivecraft

Never knew it did support it. I've always used mods like vivecraft to do it

I’m in the middle of moving so all my VR stuff is packed in storage. Sadly, I may never get to try it.
- Pretty sure Java still has VR mods.
  
  That’s cool to know, but is there also a mod to use a controller? That’s what keeps me in bedrock (currently playing android bedrock version on Linux).
- Java VR is way nicer than what Microsoft had. Their MS implementation always left me nauseous and I’d never had a problem with that in VR before

I find this hilarious because you can currently buy a Minecraft themed charging brick and/or cord and get a code for a cosmetic VR headset for bedrock edition inside the packaging. 🙃

Good. If they are going to continue to develop the game they need to lose parity as an excuse to do the bare minimum.

Hope they won't drop support for RTX; it hasn't been updated since release...

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