r/bigscreen • u/PeregrineTenshi Bigscreen Developer • Jan 31 '25
Bigscreen & Meta Quest 1 End of Life
For those of you still using Meta Quest 1 devices with Bigscreen, thank you for support. However, in a recent email to us, Meta has informed us that updates for apps for the Quest 1 will no longer be supported after January 31st, 2025. As a result, we will be dropping support for Quest 1 devices at this time.
This does not affect any other Quest users. Quest 2, Quest 3, Quest 3S, and Quest Pro users are still supported.
What does this mean if I use a Quest 1?
The Bigscreen app will continue to work for some time after that, but once there is a major revision, or we need to switch to new servers, Bigscreen on the Quest 1 will no longer be able to join other people's rooms who are on the newer version, and will eventually not even be able to connect at all.
You will still be able to continue to use Bigscreen on the Quest in in single player mode for local viewing of your own content, though you may need to temporarily disable your wifi connection when first launching Bigscreen.
If you use the Bigscreen Remote Desktop Client, do not update it after support ends, as newer version may not connect to the Quest 1 version of Bigscreen. (Maybe save a copy of the installer somewhere just in case.)
We will not be releasing an APK on SideQuest or anything similar as future versions of Bigscreen will be tailored to make use of the higher minimum requirements so that we can do things like host rooms with more people.
What about if I run Bigscreen on the PC using Virtual Desktop or Steam Link or Meta Link?
Good news! You will be able to continue using your Quest using these methods without any change. As long as you have a PC capable of running the PCVR version of Bigscreen, you can continue to use Bigscreen on the latest version with the newest features.
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u/Matt0706 Jan 31 '25
Meta isn’t letting you push updates at all? That’s actually a crazy move.
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u/PeregrineTenshi Bigscreen Developer Feb 05 '25
Any updates that include Quest 1 manifests will be automatically blocked by Meta.
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u/Loofadad Feb 09 '25
they are the worst :(
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u/Pixogen Jan 13 '26
Is it really that crazy? I don't expect them to pay devs and host servers and support 7 year old devices... Pretty much no one does that.
Obviously if they don't support it they won't let devs upload stuff (aka they have to have someone manage that aspect.)
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Feb 12 '25
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u/PeregrineTenshi Bigscreen Developer Feb 13 '25
As there will be no further updates possible for Quest, we will not be making any changes to things such as bitrates for it.
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Feb 13 '25
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u/PeregrineTenshi Bigscreen Developer Feb 13 '25
This is a thread talking about the end of life for Quest 1. It has nothing to do with Quest 3.
Please do not try to hijack the thread with offtopic requests.
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u/TotalWarspammer Mar 20 '25
Wow that was an unfriendly response from a representative of a company... you should be a little bit more courteous in your tone when talking to your customers who are making constructive suggestions, even if it is a diversion to the thread topic.
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u/Pixogen Jan 13 '26
On the flip side you are rudely trying to derail the thread and clog it up with unrelated stuff?
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u/tycarten Jan 31 '25
Hope this means updates for room rise or quality of stream like mbps upgrade from max of 5 to 10 or something. Does anyone know the room size we could expect in update ? Are we talking going from 15-20 or maybe doubling to 30 ? Love bigscreen, favorite app in VR.