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You can sideload. I've sideloaded some things on Quest, and as far as I can tell from googling it's the same on Go (I don't own one though).

However, in practice it's not going to get any new software, because developers will be writing for new generations, and porting to hardware with a slower GPU speed is more effort than it's worth.

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Registered developers can do sideloading, no info yet if that will continue to work. Or if it will be possible for users to register as Oculus developers in the future or if that is shut down as well.

If hardware can still be used there are generally people around who continue to use it in some way. And the hardware of the Oculus was pretty nice actually (even if many here don't seem to like it because of only 3-dof).

> And the hardware of the Oculus was pretty nice actually (even if many here don't seem to like it because of only 3-dof).

That's exactly why it wasn't nice. It's hard to do much more than media consumption apps or the simplest possible 'games' without movement axes.

I'm not allowed to have liked it? Damn. edit: Jokes aside. The hardware did what I expected from it - and for a rather nice price.

Of course you're allowed to like it. But it remains true that the hardware wasn't very capable.

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