New Store Apps Won't Be Allowed To Support Oculus Quest 1

New Quest Store and App Lab apps soon won't be allowed to support the original Oculus Quest.

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"Won't have to" is one thing, but "won't be allowed" is bullshit.

Oh well, why would one buy something from Meta anyway?
Former Oculus Go users:

First time?
- can only hope quest 1 has an end as good as go
“the Oculus SDK dropped support for Quest 1 in v51, which released in April 2023. That means developers using SDK versions newer than v50, required for features like Dynamic Resolution, Super Resolution, Virtual Keyboard, Multimodal, and Quest 3 featureslike the mixed reality Scene Mesh, Depth API, and Inside-Out Body Tracking already couldn't continue to support Quest 1. That's one of the reasons many Quest Store and App Lab apps have already dropped support for Quest 1.”
5 year old tech, makes sense
- Facebook not supporting 5 year old hardware: Fine, nothing wrong here
  
  Facebook demanding and enforcing that nobody else support it: Draconian corporate bullshit that serves no purpose but to force you, the consumer, to upgrade, even if you are perfectly happy with what you have and it runs the new games you would like to play.
  
  They force Devs to not make software for first gen? How are they going to enforce that?
  
  Does crapbook have a closed app store?
- The Switch is 7 years old this month.
  
  Yeah, switch is way overdue for a hardware upgrade

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