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Good god, Roblox is headed to Meta Quest’s VR headsetsThis can only end well.
This can only end well.
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“Traditionally, developing a VR experience required a team that had VR-specific experience and skills,” Roblox wrote in a blog post. “With Roblox, developers will soon be able to publish their existing experiences to support VR with little to no additional coding effort required. This is because Roblox is designed to be universal, allowing the same experiences to run everywhere.”
While Roblox already supported a VR mode for the Oculus Rift, Quest2, HTC Vive and Valve Index, the new Meta Quest support will allow experiences to run completely untethered - i.e. without a connection to a PC - on the mobile headsets. The devs added that the untethered support would eventually expand to other VR headsets compatible with the game, with Meta Quest support limited to the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro for the time being.
Although all Robolox creations marked as working on ‘Desktop’ will continue to be compatible with the existing PC VR mode for now, the devs said that they will eventually require experiences to be marked as explicitly VR-compatible to be played using any headset.
The open beta for Roblox will launch on Meta Quest in the coming weeks, with the team planning to gather feedback before they announce a full release. Users will need to be 13 or older to download the VR version - though presumably the game’srecently-announced mature 17-and-up experiencesandmany, many Squid Gamerecreations will be playable in VR like any other creation. Or justdo virtual laundry with online strangers, your choice.
