Meta confirms Quest 3 won’t replace Quest 2 for “quite a while”.

According to the company’s CTO, you shouldn’t be worried about that anytime soon. Meta CTO and VR/AR leader Andrew “Boz” Bosworth told me, “All of the games we announced at the Gaming Showcase are playable on both Quest 2 and 3, and we expect it to be available sometime soon.” Will remain ideal for.”

He’s not ruling out the possibility of a Quest 3-exclusive or Best-On Quest 3 game, though: “Certainly mixed reality and high-powered titles could start targeting Quest 3 over time,” He says

This makes some sense to me: After all, Quest 2 doesn’t have full-color passthrough cameras to let you properly integrate your real-world surroundings into a game, unlike Quest Pro and the new Quest 3. And I’d hate for a potential killer app to be held back by the Quest 2’s processing power — even though Meta has promised to boost the Quest 2’s performance with software updates.

But what I really wanted to know wasn’t “Will there be Quest 3 exclusives?” but rather “Will Meta promise not to drop Quest 2?”

As for other data points, Shows that more than 45 percent of VR headset users are connecting Quest 2 to their gaming PCs, compared to just over 2 percent who used the original Quest.

Boz has not yet answered my follow-up question about retroactive game shutdowns (see below); I’ll update here if he does.