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Meta to Dissolve App Lab Next Month, Putting More Steam Behind Early Access Program

Meta’s App Lab distribution channel for early access games is still around, but it won’t be for long. Although Meta made App Lab content searchable on the main store for the first time earlier this summer, now the company is preparing for App Lab’s complete dissolution next month, putting more of a Steam-like emphasis on […]

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Meta Wants Android Play Store Apps Officially on Quest but Google “didn’t want to”

There are relatively few 2D Android apps available on the Quest Store, which seems odd since the Quest hardware runs a modified version of Android. According to Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Google simply isn’t interested in bringing the full Play Store of apps to Quest. “There’s nothing preventing Android developers who have an APK […]

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Quest Store Revenue Reaches $2 Billion, But Momentum Has Slowed Over the Last Year

Coming alongside the big Quest 3 info dump today at Connect 2023, Meta revealed that Quest Store games and apps have generated over $2 billion in revenue. While the store is still earning for developers, looking at revenue over time shows that things have cooled off over the last year. Meta’s Head of Developer Relations Melissa […]

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Quest’s Official Non-store App Distribution Channel is Coming in Q1, 2021
Facebook announced back in June that it planned to offer developers a way to distribute Oculus Quest apps outside of the official, curated, Quest store. Now the company indicates it has “high confidence” that the feature will be deployed in Q1, 2021. Since the launch of Oculus Quest, Facebook has opted to ‘curate’ the Quest […]

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