The Oculus Quest will be able to emulate Oculus Go applications by the end of the year

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True commercial cardboard, the excellent Oculus Quest will be able to officially emulate the applications of his little brother Oculus Go by the end of the year. 

A very good news, announced by John Carmack himself, which was to offer the Oculus Quest a veritable mountain of content in virtual reality.

The Quest will emulate the Go

John Carmack, Chief Technology Officer of Oculus, said the arrival of Oculus Go applications on the Quest will be via "  adding a compatibility layer, which makes the Quest pass for the Go, and will be able to emulate the controllers of the Go for the old applications  ". 

To what extent will Go applications be ported to the Quest? We still do not know it. After all, entry-level headset applications are hardly designed to work on headphones with 6DOF tracking. And yet! Carmack says that - for most applications - total tracking will be supported by the Quest. 

" Everything does not work perfectly, but many old applications marvelously own the 6DOF tracking of headphones and controllers and have a better resolution and a better frame rate, so it's particularly fun to relaunch some old stuff  » adds the former boss of id Software.

Same-store, different applications

More focused on the game than his younger brother, the Oculus Quest nevertheless relies on the same application store to run: the Oculus Store. 

But even before the release of the Quest, Oculus had promised to make a strict selection of content that would be accessible from its state-of-the-art autonomous virtual reality headset. In February, a statement from the company explained including wanting to "  build a platform where everyone can have confidence in the quality of the securities he buys  ." 

As the specialized site RoadToVR explains, the Oculus Go application store is much more available than the Quest. But this is notably due to the curation carried out by the Oculus teams on the latter. Also, to allow the applications of the Go to become embedded in the Quest, it is to risk to bring the wolf in the fold and thus to lose in quality on the type of contents that are proposed to the users.