You shouldn’t be frightened about that anytime quickly, based on the corporate’s CTO. “The video games we introduced within the Gaming Showcase are all playable on each Quest 2 and three, and we count on that to stay the norm for fairly some time,” Meta CTO and VR / AR chief Andrew “Boz” Bosworth tells me.
He’s not ruling out the potential of Quest 3-exclusive or best-on-Quest 3 video games, although: “In fact blended actuality and high-power titles could begin to goal Quest 3 over time,” he provides.
That makes some sense to me: in any case, the Quest 2 doesn’t have full-color passthrough cameras to allow you to correctly combine your real-world environment right into a sport, in contrast to the Quest Professional and new Quest 3. And I’d hate for a possible killer app to be held again by the Quest 2’s processing energy — regardless that Meta has promised to spice up the Quest 2’s efficiency with a software program replace.
However what I actually wished to know wasn’t “Will there be Quest 3 exclusives?” however relatively “Will Meta promise to not abandon the Quest 2?”
As one other knowledge level, the latest Steam Hardware Survey exhibits over 45 p.c of VR headset customers there are connecting a Quest 2 to their gaming PC, in comparison with simply over 2 p.c utilizing the unique Quest.
Boz hasn’t but answered my follow-up query about retroactive sport shutdowns (see beneath); I’ll replace right here if he does.