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The free Gear VR version [HELP!]
As some of you may know, Oculus dropped GEAR/GO support for the Quest 2 so it no longer works to download the apk from the GEAR VR store and sideload (I get 1 more bytes missing error)
Does anyone have a backup of the GEAR VR version of VO from when it was still supported? From around 2019 ish? Because that will still work on the Quest 2! I just can't find an apk anywhere even though it's free.
It would help the VR / Quest community a lot (and I want to experience VO in VR! :] )
Does anyone have a backup of the GEAR VR version of VO from when it was still supported? From around 2019 ish? Because that will still work on the Quest 2! I just can't find an apk anywhere even though it's free.
It would help the VR / Quest community a lot (and I want to experience VO in VR! :] )
It never worked on the Quest 2, and nobody has a working APK for you. Unless GS update the game to work with Q2 (and that might be out of their hands), then you will never have a working native version. Best you can have is play via the link cable, using your PC as the client (the Oculus PC version works well apparently, but I don't have this setup so I cannot help with that).
VO has never ran on a Quest 2 native, only the Quest 1, as the Quest 1 is backward compatible with Go/GearVR apps. Oculus made the decision to release the Quest 2 without this feature, maybe go badger them to add it? You can get the .apk from the Oculus store using tricks like an Android emulator configured to report itself as a GearVR (and this is the very same APK most have, that is not updated since a long time), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzCThapGqY&t=0s&ab_channel=OPENPCreviews - but when I did this I still had to pay the $3 or whatever it was, as the client is not free on Oculus store, it has never been free there either.
Your only option for playing VO on a Quest 2 is via link cable using the Rift client. No other method will work no matter what files you get.
VO has never ran on a Quest 2 native, only the Quest 1, as the Quest 1 is backward compatible with Go/GearVR apps. Oculus made the decision to release the Quest 2 without this feature, maybe go badger them to add it? You can get the .apk from the Oculus store using tricks like an Android emulator configured to report itself as a GearVR (and this is the very same APK most have, that is not updated since a long time), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzCThapGqY&t=0s&ab_channel=OPENPCreviews - but when I did this I still had to pay the $3 or whatever it was, as the client is not free on Oculus store, it has never been free there either.
Your only option for playing VO on a Quest 2 is via link cable using the Rift client. No other method will work no matter what files you get.
I know it's not supported by the Quest 2 but I've had succes installing GEAR apk's with the older versions when GEAR VR games was still supported for the Quest 2 - like Minecraft GEAR VR version 1.16 so if someone had an older version of the GEAR VR game, it should work.
Managed to get Vendetta Online VR 1.8.405_V154 to work on the Quest 2. (had to disable wifi to prevent it from updating)