Oculus Quest 2 owners beware: the Meta Quest 3 launch is bad news for your storage
As highlighted in our Meta Quest 3 review, the new VR headset brings a lot of improvements to the VR world, but for Oculus Quest 2 owners it also comes with one major drawback: your headset’s storage space may soon become a lot. feel smaller than before.
To take advantage of the Quest 3’s improved Snapdragon then 50 comes). However, as reported by Upload VRthese updated files are not exclusive to Quest 3 owners.
People using a Quest 2 will also be forced to download the new, larger file sizes, but here’s the kicker: they won’t be able to take advantage of the improvements stored in those larger files. And the increase in size is not insignificant – Red Matter 2, for example, jumps from 5.6 GB to 9.1 GB.
Just under 3.5GB may not seem like much, but if you’re a long-time 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 available space after taking into account the 7.5 GB that the Quest 2 OS takes up.
Fortunately, this may not be a problem forever. While developers don’t currently have the option to release separate Quest 2 and Quest 3 versions of their VR experiences, they can release a separate, simplified version for Quest 1.
Meta didn’t provide an exact timeline, but did tell UploadVR that it plans to “extend this (the ability to release different versions of apps) to Quest Pro and Quest 3 in the future.” So hopefully Quest 2 owners will soon be able to reclaim all the storage space that was taken from them.
In the meantime, be prepared to delete some apps from your Quest 2’s digital library. Alternatively, you can check out Meta Quest 3 and see if it’s worth upgrading as well. If you have to download the larger files, you can at least take advantage of the benefits they bring.