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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
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.
No, the issue isn’t irresponsible devs.
The only issue here is companies who treat my device as theirs, and make decisions about what needs to be removed from my PC. And of course the voters (like your safety-OCD ass) that tolerate this bullshit being a legal option.
Literal victim blaming.
You are not a victim for not getting all your old versions of software supported forever.
No, troll, the botnets part.
Didnt even know it has support. But I also dont have VR so I never bothered looking it up.
“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.
Well that’s a shame
Vivecraft is on Modrinth as well
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).
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/controllable
The answer to “is there a mod for adding X to Minecraft Java” is almost always “yes”
Nice, thanks!
Yes, there are. I think one is called something like Controllable or Controllerable or something.
That is either the bane or something really close. It’s really damn good too.
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. 🙃
Hope they won’t drop support for RTX; it hasn’t been updated since release…
