QuestCraft Makes Minecraft Java Version Playable On Quest 2

Minecraft VR (opens in new tab) has been accessible on Oculus headsets since 2016, but Microsoft's official app is based upon the Bedrock edition of Minecraft. The Pc-unique Java edition of Minecraft, which nonetheless has a heavy person-base, has but to receive any official VR remedy.

Step ahead QuestCraft, a newly launched mod that enables VR compatibility for Minecraft Java. Introduced earlier this week, QuestCraft's reveal was accompanied by a trailer showing the mod in action. You possibly can view the video under, but it surely allows full head-tracking in Minecraft, and adjusts UI options like menus to be functional in VR, ie, letting you move gadgets around in a pop-up inventory window. It also permits contact controls to a limited degree. This that or the other You can move your arms round, but it appears that interactions are primarily button-based mostly.

QuestCraft requires an current model of Minecraft Java to make use of, performing as a 'wrapper' that launches Minecraft on your quest. It's currently in Beta, with efficiency reported as being not nice by VR specialist site UploadVR. On the mod's github web page (opens in new tab), the builders of the mod claim this is "as a result of Minecraft is a really badly optimized game".

You may download QuestCraft through the Github web page, which additionally supplies directions for set up. Truthful word of warning, the set up process is quite complicated, and requires a 3rd-celebration mod-set up service like SideQuest or QuestToolBox. The Github web page also recommends a list of mods to help improve performance, akin to Cull Leaves (opens in new tab) and Lithium (opens in new tab)amongst others.

As for why you'd desire a barely janky VR mod for Minecraft Java, moderately than taking part in the official Minecraft VR app, the quick reply is that Minecraft Java supports a wide range of mods that either aren't catered for at all by the Bedrock version, or have to be purchased individually. In case you simply wish to play vanilla Minecraft in VR, then the official app is the one to go for. But when you've acquired your own Java-based Minecraft server customised with a bunch of mods, or just don't need to purchase Minecraft once more, then QuestCraft lets you step into that world and gawp at it in stereoscopic 3D.