Roblox already helps PC VR headsets along with each conceivable conventional platform on the market, though a current report maintains the metaverse powerhouse might land on Quest later this 12 months.
The report arrives from The Verge’s newly launched paid e-newsletter, Command Line, which was created by The Verge’s deputy editor Alex Heath.
In it, Heath stories Roblox could also be arriving on Quest within the second half of 2023, nonetheless that “plans are topic to alter.” Up to now, neither Meta nor Roblox has responded for remark.
This isn’t fully out of left discipline both. Within the firm’s Q1 2021 earnings name, Roblox CEO and co-founder Dave Baszucki stated its free-to-play recreation made “excellent sense” for the Quest platform.
Nonetheless, making a native Roblox app for Quest is probably not as trivial because it sounds, and that’s even though the social gaming platform can run on even the humblest of Android gadgets. Like VRChat or Rec Room, the platform is awash with tons of user-generated content material, and ensuring that content material can run on Quest 2 would require some efficiency hoops if the app needs to keep up its a lot famed cross-play performance.
One factor is pretty sure although, if Roblox is coming to Quest, it most likely gained’t help Quest 1, as Meta is at the moment within the means of phasing out the headset for each first-party social capabilities and safety patches.