Netflix Discontinues Quest App Following Browser Streaming High quality Bump

Netflix has pulled its video streaming app from the Quest content material retailer.

As first reported by UploadVR, the long-neglected Netflix app for Quest is now gone from the shop. For those who already downloaded the app earlier than then, you’ll discover it now not works.

That doesn’t imply you may’t watch Netflix on Quest although. The streaming big just lately bumped streaming high quality within the Quest Browser to 1080p, which is available in stark distinction to the app’s 480p capped decision, which notably didn’t assist blended actuality passthrough or downloads.

Initially launched in 2015 for Samsung Gear VR and developed by former Meta CTO John Carmack, the app skilled only a few updates through the years, with the newest arriving in 2019 alongside the launch of the unique Quest.

Why not merely develop a brand new official app? Netflix requires units to be licensed with a view to push streaming past that 480p cap, which requires assembly technical necessities, submitting the machine for testing, and even probably negotiating a licensing settlement, that are all issues Meta must provoke.

Notably, Quest has native apps for Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV, MLB, along with its personal Meta TV app. It lacks Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and HBO Max.