Minecraft will officially end support for virtual reality (VR) headsets after March 2025. Despite Minecraft’s huge popularity, it does not seem that VR is big enough in the game’s community, so Mojang Studios decided to stop VR support for both the PC and PlayStation versions of the game next year.
Minecraft was originally released in beta phase in 2009, quickly becoming a huge global hit. Due to its success, Minecraft has had VR support since 2016, when it started to support Oculus VR. After a while, the popular sandbox game also gained VR support on PlayStation, but this recent news indicates a shift in Mojang’s strategy towards this technology.
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As part of the changelog of Minecraft’s 1.21.40 Bedrock update, Mojang announced that the game will no longer support devices such as Oculus Rift, Meta Quest, or Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The change will take place after March 2025, giving gamers a small window of a few months before it is finalized. After March, only gamers who play the Java version of Minecraft with mods such as Vivecraft will be...
