- Meta would have ended all the software updates of the quest for oculus
- This establishes the shelf life of the quest helmets to just under six years, which suggests that the quest 2 would lose all the support in 2026
- Meta Quest 2 could last until 2028 on the basis of Meta CTO’s comments
Meta seems to have put the last nail in the coffin of the original Oculus Quest VR helmet – and this gives us an idea of life expectancy for other current headsets of the company.
Meta interrupted the Oculus Quest, which was published in 2019, in 2020, updated it with new features in February 2023, ended security updates in August 2024 and reduced the Support for new applications on the system in April 2024. Now it is reported that it is reported (via Uploadvr) that the system can no longer receive updates for the older games of developers, which actually means that the helmet reached the end of his life.
You can continue to use your quest if you wish – but given the lack of security updates, we recommend that you be caution if you do. More importantly, this reported development would put the official lifespan of the original quest at six years, which gives us an idea of the duration of the meta to continue to support its other quest helmets – and it could be bad news For the most popular Meta Meta Meta Material VR, quest 2.
Indeed choose to end the care of the quest 3 later or 3s earlier since the helmets share the same chipset so that it is strange to end the care of one and not on the other.
There is still hope for quest 2
Meta has already taken the first steps towards SunSing The Quest 2.. The helmet was officially interrupted in September from last year – although it started to disappear from the detail in July – and the exclusives of the first meta quest 3 are already arrived (titles such as Batman: Arkham Shadow) While software developers are starting to abandon the aging hardware of the quest 2. Thus, an end of life date in 2026 would certainly make sense; However, there are potentially good news if you hope to continue using your quest 2 a little longer.
In an Instagram story either available (which was shared in Reddit), Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that quest 2 would receive support for “three years from the last date of sale”. This would mean that it should last until 2027, with its incredible popularity (it reliably reassembled the graphics of use of VR steam helmets for years) probably helping to prolong its life a little beyond its sound older brother.
In addition, if Bosworth talks just about the security of the Horizon operating system security, and not the updates of developers’ applications, then after the Meta chronology took for the original quest, your meta-work 2 could hang on to eight years of support before being stuck in Stase software, which is not too shabby given the lifespan of other technologies such as your smartphone.
If quest 2 actually survives until 2028, we therefore hope that we will have a meta quest 4S so that the quest 2 hides the teeth as an affordable VR helmet alternative, but for the exact details of Meta’s plans for Its existing helmets, and the future, we will have to wait for official announcements.
