Mojang introduced final yr that it was shutting down help for PSVR and PC VR headsets someday after March 2025. Now, within the newest Bedrock replace, the studio has formally dropped VR help, though there are nonetheless a number of unofficial methods to maintain you mining.
In response to the Bedrock Version 1.21.80 patch notes, as of yesterday Mojang has eliminated entry to VR gameplay fully throughout each PC and PSVR variations, which sadly consists of each solo and multiplayer.
Nonetheless, you possibly can nonetheless chug proper alongside combating creepers with a number of unofficial mods which have seen much more love than Mojang ever recreation to the official variations.
Among the finest methods to play proper now on PC VR headsets is to put in the favored Vivecraft mod, which helps Minecraft Java variations 1.7.10, and 1.10 by way of 1.20.1.
Vivecraft helps single participant, LAN multiplayer, and server multiplayer. When you gained’t have the ability to kick it with your pals throughout Mojang’s official Minecraft servers—and no cross-play between different Bedrock variations, resembling Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Change, or cellular—it does help Forge mods, which helps you to finetune visuals and recreation modes.
When you’re on Quest, your solely actual choice to play Minecraft has actually solely ever been by putting in the unofficial QuestCraft mod, which packages Vivecraft and Pojlib in a standalone port of Minecraft’s Java version. Once more, like Vivecraft for PC VR, there’s no cross-play between different Bedrock variations.
You may get a recap on each strategies courtesy YouTuber ‘Diamond VR’, who takes you thru the setup course of:
Sadly, PSVR 2 customers already know the rating. After Mojang introduced it was dropping help for the unique PSVR, which first noticed official VR help in late 2020, it was very uncertain the studio would launch something for PSVR 2. Small comfort: you probably have a VR-ready PC, you possibly can truly hook up your PSVR 2 to a PC and play through Vivecraft. You’ll want Sony’s $60 adapter, or alliteratively the best GPU to plug proper in.
Whereas there are gads of Minecraft clones and off-brand block constructing video games on the market, we haven’t seen one which’s really price recommending over these two mods, that are each free and require solely minor fiddling to get working easily.
