{"id":673202,"date":"2026-11-03T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673202\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:06:08","slug":"meta-will-end-quest-2-os-updates-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673202\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta will end Quest 2 OS updates in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets by March 2027, <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.meta.com\/vr\/blog\/meta-quest-2-quest-pro-end-of-feature-development-what-to-know\/?utm_source=social-x&amp;utm_medium=MVRD&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=QuestEOF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the company announced today<\/a>. The last OS update for those devices is planned to be v213, and after that, Meta will continue to ship security patches and critical bug fixes through the end of 2027. Apps that support the Quest 2 or Quest Pro can also be submitted through December 2027, Meta says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Meta is calling the Quest 3 and 3S \u201cnow the baseline for Meta VR gamers.\u201d The company is announcing this shift ahead of the planned release of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/999517\/meta-vr-glasses-connect-2026-hands-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new VR Glasses<\/a>, which are set to launch sometime in spring 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cQuest 2 and Quest Pro laid the foundation for this platform, and millions of people still play on them,\u201d Meta says. \u201cQuest 3 and Quest 3S give your apps more performance headroom and mixed reality built in, and apps built for them carry forward to Meta VR Glasses, which run on the same OS and SDKs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,1226,43,216,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-673202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}