MetaMeta will discontinue two original Oculus Quest games next year.
Meta Corporation sent an email to all holders of Bogo and Dead And Buried II on Friday, informing them that "support will no longer be available as of Friday, March 15, 2024."
Meta Quest platform policy requires developers to notify customers at least 180 days before shutting down an app, so this appears to be Meta enforcing its own policy.
Bogo is a free virtual pet app designed to demonstrate the Oculus Quest's wireless spatial tracking and gamepad controllers. It's one of the few VR apps that scales to the size of your play space, making interactive areas accessible in smaller rooms and encouraging actual walking in larger rooms.
Former Meta manager Bernie Yee (who hired and led the "Oculus REX" team that developed Bogo, as well as the Dreamdeck, Toybox, First Contact, and First Steps teams) expressed regret over Bogo's termination on Platform X, tagging Meta on Twitter Andrew Bosworth, vice president of technology, hopes it can be retained in App Lab. Yee was laid off in the first wave of layoffs last November, along with multiple members of the REX team.
On Reddit, Yee said that the initial version of Bogo, which Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated on Oculus Connect 4, took just four months to develop. He also said that aside from 3D artists and animators, few members of the original development team are still at Meta, but some of those team members have formed a new virtual creature startup called Windup Minds to "continue to refine what Bogo has demonstrated." meaning to all our products”.
Bogo is an Unreal Engine app built with the very old Oculus SDK and uses the original Oculus Avatar SDK, which was replaced by Meta Avatars almost two years ago. Despite initially announcing plans to launch in 2022, the Meta Avatars SDK is still not available for Unreal Engine.
While Meta has yet to comment on the decision, the use of an outdated SDK and the lack of a team updating the app could lead to its termination.
Dead and Buried II, on the other hand, is a $20 multiplayer shooter and one of the first first-person shooters on the Oculus Quest.
It launched with two game modes, a team-based "Shootout" mode and a free-for-all "Deathmatch" mode. An update less than a year later added three new modes: a 1-on-1 "Quickdraw" mode and two co-op modes, Survival and Horde.
Considering that Dead and Buried II is a multiplayer game, Meta will likely discontinue the service and related online services so it no longer needs to maintain servers, as it did with Echo Arena last August.
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