Oculus Quest 2 owners beware: the Meta Quest 3 launch is bad news for your storage

Date:
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:56:38 +0000

Description:
The Meta Quest 3 is getting upgraded apps, but these bigger file sizes are also coming to eat up Quest 2 storage.

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As highlighted in our Meta Quest 3 review , the new VR headset is bringing a lot of improvements to the VR world, but for Oculus Quest 2 owners its also bringing one major downside your headsets storage space might soon feel a
lot smaller than it did before.

To take advantage of the Quest 3s improved Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, its 8GB of RAM, and its full-color mixed reality, VR app developers will be releasing updates to their software (Meta said its coming to over 50 during Meta Connect 2023 ). However, as reported by UploadVR , these updated files wont be exclusive to Quest 3 owners.

People using a Quest 2 will also be forced to download the new, larger file sizes, but heres the kicker: they won't be able to benefit from any of the improvements stored in those bigger files. And the size increases arent insignificant for example, Red Matter 2 is jumping from 5.6GB to 9.1GB.

Just under 3.5GB might not seem like a lot, but if youve been a long-running Oculus Quest 2 user and have an original 64GB model (as this writer does)
then 3.5GB is 5.5% of your total storage space or 6.2% of the available
space after you factor in the 7.5GB taken up by the Quest 2 OS.

Thankfully this might not be an issue forever. While developers currently
dont have the option to release distinct Quest 2 and Quest 3 versions of
their VR experiences, they can release a separate, simplified version for the Quest 1.

Meta didnt provide an exact timeline, but it did reportedly tell UploadVR
that it has plans to extend this [facility to release distinct versions of apps] to Quest Pro and Quest 3 in the future. So hopefully Quest 2 owners
will soon be able to reclaim any storage space that has been snatched away from them.

In the meantime, be prepared to have to delete some apps from your Quest 2s digital library. Alternatively, you could check out the Meta Quest 3 and see if its worth upgrading too if you have to download the bigger files, you might at least take advantage of the benefits they bring. You might also like... Meta could topple Apples Vision Pro headset - with a cheaper device The last Quest 2 update before the Meta Quest 3 launch is underwhelming Apple is reportedly fixing the Vision Pro in two key ways



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/oculus-q uest-2-owners-beware-the-meta-quest-3-launch-is-bad-news-for-your-storage


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