Minecraft’s VR support is now gone

Minecraft’s authoritative enactment for virtual world and mixed world devices is over. Mojang announced past twelvemonth that Minecraft would halt supporting VR headsets aft March 2025, and per today’s Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.80 Update patch notes, that enactment has been removed, as reported by PCWorld.

When Mojang announced the extremity of enactment for VR in October, it said that you’ll inactive get updates connected your PC, you’ll inactive beryllium capable to play without a VR / MR device, and that you’ll beryllium capable to proceed gathering worlds oregon usage immoderate Marketplace purchases. At the time, Mojang’s reasoning for removing enactment was that “our quality to enactment VR / MR devices has travel to an end.”

However, determination are inactive ways to play Minecraft connected a VR headset, if you’d like. If you person the Java mentation of the crippled for PC, you tin usage a mod similar Vivecraft, which works connected galore VR platforms, oregon QuestCraft, a larboard circumstantial to Meta Quest headsets.

Still, I’m a small bittersweet to spot authoritative VR enactment ending for Minecraft, particularly if you, similar me, tin retrieve the incredibly awesome Minecraft demo for HoloLens from way backmost successful the day.