QuestCraft Makes Minecraft: Java Version Playable On Quest 2

Minecraft VR (opens in new tab) has been accessible on Oculus headsets since 2016, however Microsoft's official app relies upon the Bedrock edition of Minecraft. The Laptop-unique Java version of Minecraft, which nonetheless has a heavy user-base, has but to obtain any official VR remedy.

Step ahead QuestCraft, a newly launched mod that permits VR compatibility for Minecraft Java. Introduced earlier this week, QuestCraft's reveal was accompanied by a trailer displaying the mod in action. You may view the video beneath, but it surely allows full head-tracking in Minecraft, and adjusts UI features like menus to be purposeful in VR, ie, letting you progress objects around in a pop-up stock window. It additionally enables touch controls to a restricted degree. You can move your arms around, nevertheless it appears that interactions are primarily button-based mostly. DHAKA'S BLOG

QuestCraft requires an current model of Minecraft Java to use, acting as a 'wrapper' that launches Minecraft in your quest. It is presently in Beta, with efficiency reported as being not nice by VR specialist site UploadVR. On the mod's github page (opens in new tab), the builders of the mod declare that is "as a result of Minecraft is a very badly optimized recreation".

You possibly can download QuestCraft by way of the Github page, which also provides instructions for set up. Truthful phrase of warning, the installation process is quite sophisticated, and requires a 3rd-occasion mod-set up service like SideQuest or QuestToolBox. The Github web page additionally recommends a listing of mods to help improve performance, similar to Cull Leaves (opens in new tab) and Lithium (opens in new tab)amongst others.

As for why you'd want a slightly janky VR mod for Minecraft Java, moderately than taking part in the official Minecraft VR app, the brief answer is that Minecraft Java helps a variety of mods that both aren't catered for in any respect by the Bedrock version, or have to be purchased separately. In case you simply need to play vanilla Minecraft in VR, then the official app is the one to go for. But if you've received your individual Java-based Minecraft server customised with a bunch of mods, or simply don't want to purchase Minecraft once more, then QuestCraft lets you step into that world and gawp at it in stereoscopic 3D.