Minecraft formally gained digital truth headset enhance for PC again in 2016. While most effective the Oculus Rift had enhance first, it used to be adopted via enhance for Windows Mixed Reality headsets only a yr later. As the platform grew, all SteamVR suitable digital truth headset house owners on PC in the end won the power to revel in Minecraft. Soon regardless that, Mojang is taking a look to tug the plug in this manner of taking part in its sandbox sensation.

Quietly introduced within the changelog of the Bedrock 1.21.40 replace, Mojang has published that digital truth and combined truth headset enhance on PC is being disabled in March, 2025:

Our skill to enhance VR/MR gadgets has come to an finish, and can now not be supported in updates after March of 2025, when you’ll obtain your ultimate replace. After you obtain the overall replace, you’ll nonetheless obtain updates to your PC and be capable of play and not using a VR/MR instrument.

Thanks to its cross-platform nature, all VR worlds will nonetheless be suitable on for avid gamers taking part in by way of different approach, would possibly it’s on PC with keyboard and mouse, a controller, or perhaps a separate console. As anticipated, any bought in-game money for the store (Minecoins) and DLC will nonetheless be connected to the profiles they have been purchased from:

From this level on you’ll stay development on your worlds, and your Marketplace purchases (together with Minecoins) will proceed to be to be had on a non-VR/MR graphics instrument akin to a pc track. You will now not be capable of use your VR/MR instrument with Minecraft as it’ll now not be supported in the newest updates.

This announcement comes only some weeks after Mojang published that PlayStationVR enhance is being pulled as smartly. Just like on PC VR headsets, the PSVR function disabling will occur on March, 2025.

While legitimate approach of taking part in Minecraft in VR goes away quickly, PC and Meta Quest avid gamers nonetheless give you the option of the usage of the community-made variations Vivecraft (Java Edition most effective) and Questcraft, respectively.