The Netflix app for Quest headsets is no more

Netflix has discontinued its streaming app for Quest headsets, Upload VR reports. The bully quality for Quest owners is that Meta precocious added enactment for Netflix successful the Quest browser, implicit with 1080p streaming.

Netflix hadn’t importantly updated its VR app since porting it to the Quest successful 2019. It ne'er gained passthrough oregon download support, and its solution stayed pinned astatine 480p. None of that mattered erstwhile the app came retired for Samsung Gear VR successful 2015, but things person changed a batch successful the 9 years since then.

I’d ideate immoderate radical volition miss the cozy Netflix compartment successful the YouTube Short above, though.

Streaming successful the browser fixes 2 of those things — passthrough and higher-resolution streaming — but users inactive can’t download Netflix’s contented to ticker offline the mode they tin in, say, the iOS app. Still, watching successful a browser means being capable to usage different virtual environments portion streaming video.

That’s akin to what has happened connected the Vision Pro, which Netflix besides has nary app for. Owners of Apple’s headset tin inactive ticker Netflix successful a browser, which is good but not arsenic bully arsenic a dedicated app acquisition tin be. Thankfully, third-party developers person stepped successful determination to capable the void, releasing apps similar Supercut, which streams Netflix successful a web presumption and has a “cinema” situation precise akin to the 1 Apple made for the visionOS Apple TV app.