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
NGL x86-64 tablets are legitimately much more useful than their competition.
Surface tablets are niche but SO much more useful than the app-restricted alternatives from samsung or apple. Nuke windows and stick your fav distro with a tablet frontend on there and it becomes an incredibly versatile little machine.
I got a second hand surface go 2 recently and it’s the perfect companion device. I wish marvel unlimited and the like had apps on windows but that doesn’t do me from using a different comic app and building up my own library anyway, probably for the better long term.
I just found out about mouse without borders yesterday and now my surface go 2 is like a portable monitor for my dev laptop when it’s not docked in my study. But because it’s still technically it’s own thing and not just an extended desktop, I can have documentation on it and scroll with the touchscreen when needed without messing up the mouse on the laptop screen, but if i need to properly interact with the tablet I can just use the mouse and keyboard on my laptop too.
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.
I’d be sad if it wasn’t for the fact that 3rd party methods of playing MC in VR are actually better than the official method. Though this does suck for those with PSVR and not PCVR (though, can’t it do that now?)
“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?
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.
Well that’s a shame
Vivecraft is on Modrinth as well
